“Darby and the Plymouth Brethren were the first to reject all
the centuries of paganism and use literal historical exegesis.”
Are you going to tell me the earliest writers of Church history, those who wrote in the years shortly following the early church of the first century, men such as Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Hypollotus, and Tertullian, were pagans? and whose exegesis was inferior to Darby who lived some 1700 years later?
I rather think not. They lived 1700 years closer to the Apostles than Darby. And none of them believed in, nor taught, the pretrib rapture that Darby - and now Hagee and the “Left Behind” people - promote.
Paganism was codified at Nicea