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36 Master, which is the greatest commandment in the law?<br />
37 Jesus said to him: *Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind.<br />
38 This is the greatest and first commandment.<br />
39 And the second is like to this: *Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.<br />
40 On these two commandments dependeth the whole law and the prophets.<br />
41 And the Pharisees being gathered together, Jesus asked them,<br />
42 Saying: What think you of Christ? whose son is he? They say to him: David's.<br />
43 He saith to them: *How then doth David in spirit call him Lord: Saying:<br />
44 *The Lord said to my Lord: Sit on my right hand, until I make thy enemies thy footstool?<br />
45 If David then call him Lord, how is he his son?<br />
46 And no man was able to answer him a word: neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.<br />
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2 The Lord will send forth the sceptre of Thy power out of Sion: rule thou in the midst of Thy enemies.<br />
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3 With Thee is the principality in the day of Thy strength; in the brightness of the saints: from the womb before the day-star I begot Thee.<br />
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4 The Lord hath sworn, and He will not repent: *Thou art a Priest for ever, according to the order of Melchisedech.<br />
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5 The Lord at Thy right hand hath broken kings in the day of His wrath.<br />
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6 He shall judge among nations, He shall fill ruins: He shall crush the heads in the land of the many.<br />
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7 He shall drink of the torrent in the way: therefore shall He lift up His head.<br />
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Ver. 1. David. It is of faith that he wrote this psalm on the Messias. The Jews, in our Saviour's time, were convinced of it, (Matthew xxii. 42.) so that their posterity (Berthier) in vain attempts to explain it of Abraham, David, Solomon, Ezechias, or Zorobabel. (St. Chrysostom) --- Even some of them candidly own that it can relate to no other, (Thalmud) and Christians are universally of this belief. (Calmet) --- The Lord. Hebrew Jehova, (Haydock) the Father. (Menochius) --- To my Lord. Hebrew Ladoni, (Haydock) the Son incarnate, (Menochius) Lord of all, though the son of David. (Worthington) --- Who else could be David's superior? as Christ argues. (Haydock) --- The title Adonoi is given to God, (ver. 5., &c.; Calmet) as my is never united with the ineffable name. --- Hand. In equal power (Berthier) as God, and in the highest dignity as man, after the ascension. (Calmet) --- This thought should encourage us to suffer patiently, (Colossians iii. 1.) as Christ was to suffer, and thus to enter into his glory. The saints did not strive to divide him. But we would suffer nothing, and yet be glorified at the hour of our death! (Berthier) --- Until. This word does not always mark the term of a thing. When all shall be subdued, then Christ will continue to sit with greater majesty, (1 Corinthians xv. 25.; Calmet) for ever. (Worthington) (Hebrews x. 13.) --- Footstool. As was customary with conquerors, Josue x. 24.<br />
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Ver. 2. Sion. Whence the empire of Christ extended over all the earth, Isaias ii. 3., and Luke xxiv. 47. (Calmet) --- In spite of opposition, he reigns in the Church, and will one day make all submit. (Berthier) --- On Whitsunday the new law was promulgated, to continue unto the end of time. (Worthington)<br />
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Ver. 3. Principality. Christ says, All power is given to me, Matthew xxviii., and this he will display (Haydock) in the day of judgment. (St. Chrysostom) --- Arche is used in this sense by Xenophon, &c., (Calmet) as principium is by Suetonius, (in Aug.) yet it may also signify, This is the "origin," or source of thy authority, from the womb," &c. (St. Chrysostom) (Berthier) --- The consubstantiality of the Son is hence manifest, and this ensures every perfection. (Haydock) --- The Father and the Son are both principals. (St. Jerome) --- Christ was in the beginning, (John i.) and the very beginning. His eternal birth is here mentioned, though some have explained it of his temporal nativity, which took place before the rising of the day-star. (Calmet) --- This, however, would seem a trivial circumstance, (Berthier) whereas the birth of Christ before the whole creation is of great consequence. --- Saints. Or "holy places," sanctorum. Hebrew, "In the beauties (behadre.; Haydock) St. Jerome has read berri, in the mountains, (Calmet) of holiness, (Montanus) or of the sanctuary." Christ will come to judge surrounded by his angels, (Calmet) and saints. (Haydock) (St. Augustine) --- I begot thee. This expresses the sense more clearly (Haydock) than the Hebrew tibi ros emissio (Hebrew tal.) nativitatis tuæ. St. Jerome's version must be deemed inaccurate, and the Hebrew points, (Berthier) which render the modern versions so very different from ours, may be safely rejected. (Haydock) See Muis. (Genebrard) (Calmet) --- Robertson mentions fourteen different translations of this text, and many more might be given. (Haydock) --- But ours is clear, and beautiful. (Calmet) --- Protestants, "Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness, from (Marginal note, more than) the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth." (Haydock) --- Thy offspring shall be very numerous, (Isaias xlviii. 1., and xlv. 8.) and people shall willingly join thy banners, or rather come to offer victims in the sanctuary. (Calmet) --- The eternal birth of Christ, (Micheas v. 2.) from his father's substance, establishes his principality, so that he rises triumphant, &c. (Worthington) --- The present Hebrew text seems to be purposely rendered obscure, or unintelligible by the Jews, both in this verse, and in the following. (Du Hamel)<br />
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Ver. 4. Repent. Not that He can ever do so, or give way to error: but the sacred writer expresses himself thus, to give us the greatest security. (Calmet) --- The order. Hebrew dibrathi, "my order," Melchisedech. The i has been perhaps designedly inserted, to render the argumentation in the epistle to the Hebrews of no weight, "as the force of the text sinks into just nothing." (Kennicott) --- Protestants and Pagnin here abandon the Hebrew. But Montanus corrects the latter, and substitutes "upon my word," which is more honest, as he deemed the Hebrew text unerring, though here it be not so unquestionably, as the Almighty would thus address Melchisedech, unless that title be here given to Christ. St. Jerome takes no notice of my, no more than the apostle, &c. (Haydock) --- This instance "may perhaps put all serious Christians upon deliberating---whether they should any longer maintain the absolute integrity of the present Hebrew text." See Psalm xv. 10. (Kennicott, Dis. i. p. 219.) --- Melchisedech. Christ is declared king and priest for ever, (Worthington) like Melchisedech, who united in his person both dignities, and presided not over a particular people, nor stood in need of any stated place. His succession is not recorded, and his sacrifice consisted of bread and wine; in all which respects he differed from the Levitical priests, and prefigured Christ, who is immolated under the same species throughout the world, Malachias i. 11. (Menochius) --- We read in Scripture of three orders of priesthood: 1st, of kings, 2d, of the first-born, and 3d, of Aaron. Melchisedech, in quality of king, exercised the priestly office, as both functions were formerly united: and hence the word Cohen signifies both a temporal and spiritual prince. This light of nations ensured to his order a perpetual duration, while that of Aaron was to have an end. Thus Christ offered to his Father from all eternity the sacrifice of his obedience, and future sufferings; and in time, he presented that of his own life, which he continues to offer in the Catholic Church, (Calmet) by priests who are only his ministers, 1 Corinthians iv. (Worthington) --- The apostle does not specify the oblation of bread and wine, as it was unnecessary, the sacrifice of Christ on the cross <span style="color: red;"><b>+ </b></span>having put an end to the sacrifices of the old law, which could only be offered by the children of Aaron, from whom he did not spring. This was enough for his purpose. But as Melchisedech offered bread and wine, Christ must also have done the same, to be of his order. St. Cyprian, and the other Fathers, with great unanimity observe, that the sacrifice of Melchisedech was a figure of that of Jesus Christ, in bread and wine; and of course (Berthier) our sacred mysteries must contain the substance. (Haydock) --- By their application, Christ still pacifies his Father in behalf of sinners: so that the effects of his priesthood do not cease, as those of all the priests in the Old Testament did by their death. (Worthington)<br />
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Ver. 5. The Lord. He speaks to God the Father concerning the Messias, (Menochius) or God assisted the sacred humanity. (St. Chrysostom) --- In the Godhead the persons are equal. The Father is at the right of the Son, as He is at his Father's, ver. i. (St. Augustine) (Calmet) --- Yet it seems more probable, that the discourse is addressed to the first person. (Berthier)<br />
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Ver. 6. Ruins. Hebrew and Septuagint, "with dead bodies," (Calmet) or he will fill up the places of the fallen angels. (Jansenius) --- Implevit valles. (St. Jerome) --- Christ was placed for the fall and for the resurrection of many. --- Of many. Hebrew, "the head in an extensive territory." We might render the Vulgate, "he shall crush the heads of many in the land." (Haydock) --- Rebellious kings, with their populous kingdoms shall be destroyed. (Worthington) --- The power of the devil, and of all his agents, shall be crushed, though they may fill the greater part of the world, (Haydock) in terra quam multi occupant. (Berthier)<br />
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Ver. 7. Way. By the torrent Cedron, the passion of Christ is insinuated. (Houbigant) --- During life, he and his faithful servants shall be exposed to many sufferings, for which they will be amply rewarded. (Worthington) (Philippians ii. 9.) --- A torrent often denotes affliction, Psalm xvii. 5., and Isaias xxx. 28. Yet here it may signify, that Christ will supply every thing requisite to establish his Church. To find water for an army was of the greatest consequence, Jeremias xxxi. 9., Psalm lxxvii. 20., and 4 Kings iii. 9. (Calmet) --- Like a valiant conqueror, Christ seeks for no delicacies. (Muis) (Calmet) --- Those who come nearest to this divine pattern, will obtain the highest place in heaven. (Berthier)<br />
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The Church Fathers, especially as referred to here, are by definition an exact group ending with and not later than St. John Damascene in the East in the eighth century A.D. and in the West in the seventh century A.D. St. Isadore of Seville and Pope St. Gregory the Great, Pope of Rome (who said that any bishop who declared himself in charge of the whole Church, instead of all bishops, including the Pope of Rome, having no more than equal authority, with Rome among other Patriarchal sees and none of them coercing others, was in fact, the precursor of the Antichrist. Pope Saint Gregory the Great is the last with Saint Jerome and Saint Ambrose and Saint Augustine of Hippo of the Four Great Doctors (Doctor means teacher of the whole undefiled Catholic doctrine handed down from the Apostles) of the Church. Pope Saint Gregory the Great (died 604 A.D.) with Saint Isadore of Seville (died 636 A.D. - who destroyed the last of the Arian Heresy in the West) are the last two of the Church Fathers in the West and Saint John Damascene (died December 4, 749 AD, at Mar Saba near Jerusalem) is the last of the Church Fathers in the East. </h3>
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NO DOCTRINE CAN BE ADMITTED TO OR PROFESSED BY THE FAITHFUL WITHOUT THE FULL CONSENSUS OF THE CHURCH FATHERS - NOT EVEN IF A COUNCIL AND ANY NUMBER OF POPES WERE TO PUT FORWARD SUCH A DOCTRINE.</h3>
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In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy
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Both Modern Evolution and Modernist Evolution has been
concocted for only one reason, to oppose Christ and His Church and provide a
basis for the Antichrist.</div>
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What must be understood about evolution, both ancient and
modern is, in its pagan religious and Gnostic and secular modes it is the same
in the essentials – first the Universe is all there is. The ancient (Old Latin)
meaning in ancient Rome of Universe was from Uni – one and Versus – turn. Look
at the sky above, from one horizon to another it is one turn, or in other
words, one arc across the sky. This mindless elemental universe is then thought
to give rise to all phenomena spontaneously. A noumenal, unseen immaterial
aspect, is posited to conveniently provide a place for all things which don’t
add up in strict materialism. The gods and goddesses of paganism all have their
place as functionaries of this material Pantheism – strictly speaking the
Pantheist god is the universe. Know this, all evolution is in direct and
complete opposition to the Catholic Faith. Theistic evolution is only Pantheist
evolutionary immanentism with a myth of a god, it may as well be Zeus or
whatever, pasted on as an ornament. Ratzinger is a sly Apostate fox in this.</div>
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<b>The True God is the
Holy Trinity and is NOT a myth. He created everything that has been created.
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The <st1:country-region w:st="on">United
States</st1:country-region> was founded on Heroic Materialism,
which also Napoleon embraced. Napoleon also embraced the lie of the Higher
Criticism, denying the Immortal supernatural existence of the Son of God Jesus
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Communist Russia was founded on Dialectical Materialism, a
slightly differently shaded version of the same thing as Heroic Materialism.
Both are ancient Babylonian in essence. Heroic Materialism believes that physical
existence is all there is and only those better animals (really no different
than Nietzsche’s Superman which the Nazis adopted as their own) come to the
fore as the ones to govern it. Dialectical Materialism believes in cascading
forces and immanent being within the Universe that reintegrates to cause the
progression of the Universe. What nobody addresses is that why doesn’t a
physical universe, without a higher personal being who is greater than that
universe, just collapse on itself out of lack of purpose?</div>
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<b>God has His purposes
and that is a profound truth in itself that evolution will never be able to
answer or approach or even have any part in. Amen.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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historicity of his own nature. This is a normal convergence
if it is true that faith, incarnate in the human subject, adjusts itself to
man’s structures and evolutions. We observe this, moreover, in the Council. To
the extent that the Council elaborated its Christological vision of a universe
in movement, it experienced the need, a need albeit inadequately satisfied, for
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There is a simple answer, this is Teilhard de Chardin’s
Diabolically insane idea of a universe and an impersonal pseudo-Christ as a
Pantheist Unity. That is only the impersonal finite logos/logoi of the pagans identifiable with their pagan
gods and goddesses enmeshed in a mindless insensate Universe. <st1:place w:st="on">St. John</st1:place> the Apostle clarifies in the beginning
of His Gospel that the True Logos (Word of God) is the living Person, the
Immortal Son of God Jesus Christ through whom all that has been created was
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The universe which God the Father and the Son and the Holy
Spirit created is itself comprised of the elemental physical being with no mind
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<b>The Truth which has
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Dabar in Biblical Hebrew and Logos in Septuagint Greek is
the same exact meaning, the Word of God united eternally from everlasting to
everlasting to the Father in His innermost being. Jesus Christ is the Immortal
Word of God. He is the Son of God united to God the Father in the Unity of the
Holy Spirit. From Dom Grea: the Holy Spirit is the eternal song of love between
the Father and the Son from before all time and creation to eternity
everlasting. That doesn’t supplant doctrinal statements about the relationship
within the Holy Trinity, but is an orthodox addition to it. It is a statement
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<b><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">The divinity
and incarnation of Christ. John bears witness of him. He begins to call his
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<span style="font-size: 13pt;">1 In the beginning was the Word, and the
Word was with God, and the Word was God.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>2
The same was in the beginning with God.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>3
All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>4 In him was life, and the life was
the light of men.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>5 And the light
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<b>The Devil ran the
whole <st1:place w:st="on">Vatican</st1:place> II pseudo-council with the Satan
worshipping complicity of the “council fathers.” - “You are of your father the
Devil” – Jesus Christ said to the Jews. John 8:44.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the Murky Waters of <st1:place w:st="on">Vatican</st1:place> II by Atila Sinke Guimarães, Volume I From the
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This first volume of the Collection: Eli, Eli, Lamma
Sabacthani? establishes the author Atila Sinke Guimarães as one of the best
informed latter-day students of that epochal event, the Second Vatican Council.
Up to this moment, the most encyclopedic and detailedly informed examination of
the Council was provided by Professor Amerio in his Iota Unum. Guimarães’
Collection bids fair to replace Iota Unum as the best all-purpose source-book
about the Council; and it is not hazardous or rash to predict that this work of
Guimarães will be a standard reference work on the subject—and well into the
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The title of this first volume, in The Murky Waters of
Vatican II, tells exactly what the contents are. All of us who lived through
the years of Vatican 11 (1962-1965) and have had to deal with the consequences
can recognize immediately the pinpoint accuracy of this first volume: The
ambiguity, cultivated and, as it were, perfected in the composition of the
sixteen main documents of the Council, is now seen as the most skillful means
devised to undo the essential Roman- ness and Catholicism of the Roman Catholic
Church, and to deliver that entire one-billion member institutional
organization into the ready and eager hands of those for whom the existence of
the traditional papacy and hierarchical organization has long been anathema.
One reads in this volume with a certain sickening feeling of the unified way in
which the Church’s own theologians and prelates conspired willingly to bring
about the present trend to the de-Romanization and de-Catholicizing of the once
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<b>“…existence of the
traditional papacy and hierarchical organization has long been anathema.” Is a
vastly important statement. We are never called to render ANY obedience nor
even have ANY communion nor any interaction with Apostate Antipopes nor any
Apostate ecclesiastical “authority.” Such Apostate Antipopes and such so called
“authorities” have no authority at all and are ipso fact excommunicate and
anathema by their own statements and actions.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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Second, from the standpoint of the
aim toward which the Church should tend: <b>“The
very word evolution, obstinately under suspicion until then, was introduced
three or four times, in spite of the negative reactions, into the text at
critical points of Gaudium et Spes as a reinforcement to the word ‘history’</b>….
I am pleased to quote Paul VI, then still Cardinal Montini [Chenu speaking],
who makes an excellent comment: <b>‘The
order toward which Christianity tends is not a static one; it is an order in
permanent evolution toward a better form; it is an equilibrium in movement.’</b>
“15</div>
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<i>Third</i>,
regarding the essence of evolution, which is supposedly the “Spirit of God”:
“Already chapter II [of Gaudium et Spes], on describing the promotion of the
common good in the human community, affirmed the presence of the Spirit in the
‘evolution’ of the world: ‘The Spirit of God, who, with wondrous providence,
directs the course of time and renews the face of the earth, assists at this
development’ (GS 26).”16</div>
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<b><i><u>Third</u></i><u>, regarding
the essence of evolution, which is supposedly the “Spirit of God”: “Already
chapter II [of Gaudium et Spes], on describing the promotion of the common good
in the human community, affirmed the presence of the Spirit in the ‘evolution’
of the world: ‘The Spirit of God, who, with wondrous providence, directs the
course of time and renews the face of the earth, assists at this development’
(GS 26).”16<o:p></o:p></u></b></div>
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To identify the Holy Spirit with evolution is pagan (all the
pagan gods evolved), it is monist (which holds that there is no creator God
only a universe that takes the place of God), it is Gnostic – one of biggest
heresies of Gnosticism was that man evolved to where he could create God and
then it is man that is in charge of God and controls Him – this is Theurgy –
the most despicable form of black magic that there is.</div>
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Now we understand fully the damned Apostate Karol Wojtyla
aka PJII or [Anti]Pope John Paul II when he declared that all of the false gods
of the <st1:city w:st="on">Assisi</st1:city>
abomination in 2002 were part of the blowing of the Holy Spirit. That is
blaspheming the Holy Spirit for which there is no forgiveness – not ever – Our
Lord Jesus Christ said so. Amen.Amen.</div>
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He said, His statement transcribed is : <b><span lang="EN">“That
is what the scripture says, the Spirit is a blowing. May the Holy Spirit today
blow – speak to the hearts of all of us here present as the wind symbolizes.
Lets listen all of us to the words of the Spirit.” After that go back and see
the entire 2 hours and 23 minutes before he says that. If you believe that what
is shown has anything to do with the Christian faith or true Catholic religion
or the Holy Spirit, then you are not a Christian nor a Catholic. It is sheer
Satanic Apostasy. See: <o:p></o:p></span></b><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">FOR THE TAPE ON ASSISI SEE: go to <a href="http://rhondasnando.blogspot.com/2013/02/assisi-abomination-of-desolation.html" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://rhondasnando.blogspot.com/2013/02/assisi-abomination-of-desolation.html</a></b><br />
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">then go to part 6 at <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxe9wx_vts-01-6_news" style="color: #888888; text-decoration: none;">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxe9wx_vts-01-6_news</a> at <u>19:18-19:54</u> of 28:25 of part 6 and at <u>2:23:00-2:23:36</u> of 2:31:48 of the whole tape which is where John Paul II the Apostate blasphemes the Holy Spirit.</b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN">“words of
the Spirit” Wojtyla said refering to all the blaspheming of the pagans.
Wojtyla is damned.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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All of this is termed Charismatic and Pentecostal in V2
language, but it is DAMNED Apostasy. Never forgiven. If, unwittingly, anyone
got near this, simply run don’t walk to get away from it and stay away from it.
That applies to all of V2.</div>
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<b>2. Subjacent to
Ambiguity, the Doctrine of Universal Evolution<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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§ 10 A first
impression comes to the mind of an analyst who wants to determine the doctrinal
background underlying the systematic ambiguity of the Council: he notices that
the Catholic Church, hitherto immutable in its doctrine and fixed in its
structures, is presented as a ‘Church in transition.’</div>
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Theologian Hans Kung writes: <b>“Just as John XXIII became a transition
pope. . . and Council Vatican II was a transition council, so also is the
Catholic Church today a transition Church: </b>it is in transition from a past
still not completely elapsed to a future that is just beginning to appear.”11</div>
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§ 11 Given his
often radical stands, it would not be surprising if it were only Hans Kung who
made such a statement. Nevertheless, authors as important as Fr. Chenu,
inspirer of the conciliar Fathers’ Message to the World in the beginning of the
Council,’12 also admit, like Kung, the same principle of transition applied to
the Church and her doctrine. They even go further as they further define this
transitional phase and link it to evolutionist principles.</div>
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<b><i><u>From several standpoints, Fr.
Chenu celebrates the introduction of<o:p></o:p></u></i></b></div>
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<b><i><u>the idea and the word evolution into conciliar texts.</u></i></b>[my
comment - note the next statement, that it had never been allowed – the reason
is that it is HERETICAL]<b><i><u><o:p></o:p></u></i></b></div>
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<i>First</i>,
from the standpoint of the formulation of the Faith: “Relative used to be a
dangerous word. . . up until the Council. ‘<b>Official’
theology deemed the formulas expressing the faith to be immutable realities and
would not even allow the word evolution, which the Council introduces, into its
vocabulary.”</b>13</div>
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Continuing from the point of view of dogmatic formulation,
Fr. Chenu says: “That she [the Church] may be at the same time one and varied;
that she may be one and multiform. For humanity itself is in a multiform
evolution. . . . The dogmatic forms, which used to be considered absolute, are
relative; relative to time, places, circumstances, evolution. The same
realities have different fonnulas.”14</div>
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11. H. Kung, <i>Veracidade</i>,
p. 112.</div>
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12. <i>Jean Puyo
interroge le Père Congar</i>, p. 128; R. Laurentin, <i>Bilan de la premiere session</i>, pp. 123f.; H. Fesquet, op. cit., p.
49.</div>
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13. Jacques Duquesne interroge le Père Chenu, p. 47.</div>
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14. Marie-Dominique Chenu, Interview with the Author, <st1:city w:st="on">Paris</st1:city>, February 20,</div>
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<i>Second</i>,
from the standpoint of the aim toward which the Church should tend: <b>“The very word evolution, obstinately under
suspicion until then, was introduced three or four times, in spite of the negative
reactions, into the text at critical points of Gaudium et Spes as a
reinforcement to the word ‘history’</b>…. I am pleased to quote Paul VI, then
still Cardinal Montini, who makes an excellent comment: <b>‘The order toward which Christianity tends is not a static one; it is
an order in permanent evolution toward a better form; it is an equilibrium in
movement.’</b> “15</div>
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<i>Third</i>,
regarding the essence of evolution, which is supposedly the “Spirit of God”: <b>“Already chapter II [of Gaudium et Spes],
on describing the promotion of the common good in the human community, affirmed
the presence of the Spirit in the ‘evolution’ of the world: ‘The Spirit of God</b>,
who, with wondrous providence, directs the course of time and renews the face
of the earth, <b>assists at this development’</b>
(GS 26).”16</div>
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Fr. Chenu then begins to develop
the inner core of the conciliar doctrine by contending that it evolves
according to the “signs of the times” that are revealed in history: “If one
should qualify the Council by a main trait, I would propose to call it
‘prophetic’ in the full force and technical meaning of the word both in
theological language and in the sociological vocabulary. A prophet is one who
knows how to discern in current events that which places them in the continuity
and ruptures of a history on the move. The prophet does not analyze structures
and notions in their static condition, but in their dynamism. Thus, according
to the famous formula, the future is already present.</div>
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<b>…The aggiornamento of
which John XXIII spoke is not an updating after which one again returns to the
road with definitive formulas; it is a continuous application of one’s
intelligence to understand the ‘signs of the times’ that emerge from the new
values as Gospel in a world on the move. . . .</b> Evidently, the constitution
Gaudium et Spes is where this prophetism is more palpable. </div>
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…And it inspires many other declarations or decrees. This is
why,</div>
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15. <i>Jacques Duquesne
interroge le Père Chenu</i>, pp. 185f.</div>
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16. M. D. Chenu, “Les signes des temps—Reflexions
théologiques,” in V.A., <i>L’Eglise dans le
monde de ce temps—Constitution pastorale “Gaudium et spes,</i>” eds. Y.
Congar—M. Peuchmaurd (Paris: Cerf, 1967), vol. II, p. 212.</div>
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gauging well the word and [applying it] in this sense, <b>one can say<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>“To the extent that its basic element is prophetic, it requires its own
obsolescence. If it is projected—</b>in the proper sense— <b>toward the future</b>, the texts take on a new density inasmuch as the
future is present. Needless to say, <b>it
is difficult to define fidelity to the first inspiration, but it [fidelity] is
the profound law. So if I limit myself to a commentary, a discourse, I will be
actually unfaithful.</b> This is why <b>it
is normal for those responsible at all levels in their day-to-day decisions not
always to be in agreement, as though there were a set of norms to be applied or
a dogmatic formula to be taught. </b>One must undoubtedly lament deviations and
ramblings, but they do not compromise the principal character of the Council’s
innovations.”17</div>
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If one were to admit Fr. Chenu’s
explanation and draw only the major consequences from it, one sees that it
would legitimize the abandonment of the dogmatic formulas of the past.
Attachment to them would be “infidelity”; the lack of oneness in Church
teaching would be considered normal, and a corollary would be to deny
authority—especially that of the Pope—the competence to teach always the same
thing everywhere.</div>
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Historicity applied to the dogmas
of Faith and to authority in the Church makes them relative to such an extent
that one could ask whether the concept of historicity differs from Luther’s
principle of free interpretation. Since free interpretation relativizes the
teaching of Catholic exegetic tradition and historicity extends relativism to
the field of exegesis in dogmatics and ecclesiastical authority, one would say
that historicity differs from free interpretation only in that it surpasses the
latter in its developments, even though both begin from the same principles.</div>
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§ 15 In his
explanation of the new, historic and evolutionary view of the universe, Fr.
Chenu provides elements of an anthropology according to which man should be
considered as essentially linked to the evolutionary process. These doctrines,
he claims, are the foundations of Vatican II. Fr. Chenu says: “It is not by
chance that the Christian is becoming more attentive to the peculiar character
of the economy of salvation at a moment when man is becoming vitally aware of
the</div>
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17. <i>Jacques Duquesne
interroge le Père Chenu</i>, pp. l9lf.</div>
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historicity of his own nature. This is a normal convergence
if it is true that faith, incarnate in the human subject, adjusts itself to
man’s structures and evolutions. We observe this, moreover, in the Council. <b>To the extent that the Council elaborated
its Christological vision of a universe in movement, it experienced the need,</b>
a need albeit inadequately satisfied, <b>for
an anthropology</b>. Now, <b>in this
‘Christian’ anthropology, as it is being set forth more or less explicitly in
theological statements, three attributes, three co-essential attributes of man
are emerging</b>: First, that man is by nature social; second, <b>that he is so linked to the universe that
the very matter of the cosmos is engaged in his destiny</b>; and third, <b>that man exists in history. Let us
understand this</b> threefold <b>value. . .
written into man’s nature and in some way, too, issuing from it, as distinct
from abstract analysis or anything resembling either a timeless idea or an
immutable definition. Thus it is that even in its vocabulary, the Council
speaks rather of the human condition than of human nature as such, by contrast
with <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vatican</st1:place></st1:country-region>
I.</b> Without setting aside an essentialist philosophy, <b>one can readily have recourse to existential analyses.”</b>18</div>
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One sees that Fr. Chenu only
broaches on some central ideas of the so-called Christian anthropology, its
evolutionary character, its warm reception by the Council and its relations
with existentialism. But such ideas appear sufficient to confirm the impression
that an evolutionary doctrine is subjacent to, and latent in, conciliar
ambiguity.</div>
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This Item limits itself to
verifying the emergence of evolutionary doctrine as one of the principal
characteristics of Vatican II. An analysis of this doctrine will be made
further on.’19</div>
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Fr. Yves Congar, who worked on ten
of the 16 schemata of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Vatican</st1:country-region>
11, 20* also rejoices over the introduction of the concepts of evo</div>
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18. M. D. Chenu, “The History of Salvation and the
Historicity of Man in the Renewal of Theology,” in V.A., <i>Theology of Renewal</i>, vol. I, pp.</div>
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19. Vol. III, <i>Animus
Injuriandi</i>-Il, Chap. VI; Vol. VI, <i>Inveniet
Fidem</i>?, Chap. IV. 2; Vol. VII, <i>Destructio
Dei</i>, Chap. II; Vol. IX, Creatio, Chaps. II, III; Vol. X, <i>Peccatum—Redemptio</i>, Chap. V.</div>
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entier pour accomplir le Concile,” in <i>Informations
Catholiques Internationales</i>,</div>
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lution and historicity in the Council, historicity that he
links with the idea of eschatology.</div>
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<b>“One of the great novelties of Vatican II, as far as documents of the
‘magisterium’ are concerned, was the introduction of the eschatological point
of view</b> 21 <b>and, therefore, also of
historicity.</b> That was lacking, and this grave lack had to do with the
predominance of the juridical aspect. <b>Vatican
II sees the Spirit of God present in the evolution of the human community,
directing the course of time and renewing the face of the earth (GS 26).”</b>22</div>
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§ 18 Consistent
with his admiration for the harbingers of the nouvelle théoiogie,23 Cardinal
Wojtyla in his book, <i>Alle fonti del
Rinnovamento</i>, comments on the Constitution Gaudium et Spes. He endorses the
same principles defended by Congar and Chenu, taking evolution as a doctrinal
substratum of conciliar ecciesiology: <b>“The
Church</b>, with the consciousness of the history of salvation that is her</div>
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In a book-interview, Congar himself
confirms: “I was pretty much involved with the preparation of most of the great
conciliar texts: <i>Lumen Gentium</i>, above
all chapter II; <i>Gaudium et Spes; Dei
Verbum</i>, the texts on Revelation; Ecumenism; Religious Liberty; the
Declaration on relations with non-Christians; the Missions. I also worked very
much with the Commission of the clergy that elaborated the text <i>Presbyterorum Ordinis” (Jean Puyo interroge
le Père Congar</i>, p. 149).</div>
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21. About the progressivist notion of eschatology, see Vol.
III, <i>Animus Injuriandi</i>—JI, Chap. V.2.</div>
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22. Y. Congar, <i>Le
Concile de Vatican II</i>, p. 170.</div>
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23. According to Fr. Mieczyslaw Malinski, a friend of Msgr.
Wojtyla, in a study circle held at the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Polish</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place>
during the Council, he declared:</div>
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“Prominent theologians like Henri de Lubac, J. Daniélou, Y.
Congar, Hans Kung, R. Lombardi, K. Rahner and others, played an extraordinary
role in these preparatory works [of the Council]” (<i>Mon ami Karol Wojtyla</i>, Paris: Centurion, 1980, p. 189).</div>
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Rocco Buttiglione is no less
explicit in this regard: “By stating that the work of Creation is included in
that of Redemption and stressing the close connection between them, Wojtyla
takes a stand in favor of the <i>nouvelle
théologie</i> against positions that distinguish a pure order of nature, in
which man fulfills himself as a purely natural being, from an order of grace .
. . This was the position of ‘Roman theology’ and was labeled as ‘rightist.’. .
. From this standpoint, Wojtyla is certainly an innovator and aligns himself
with the <i>progressivist</i> wing of the
Council” (<i>Il pensiero di Karol Wojtvla</i>,
pp. 226f.).</div>
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own, <b>goes out to meet
that multiform evolution and the consciousness of today’s man, which is linked
to it. . . . The paschal mystery of Jesus Christ is as open to eschatology</b>
(in fact, it awakens ‘the desire for the future world’) <b>as it is to the evolution of the world, which the Council understands
above all as a commitment to make the life of humanity and of men ‘more
humane.’ <st1:place w:st="on">Vatican</st1:place> II stressed the ethical
meaning of evolution. .. . According to the doctrine of Vatican II, the Church
participates in the evolution of the world</b> not only because the ideal of an
ever more humane world is in accordance with the Gospel, but also because the
history of salvation, in which the ultimate reality is prepared, necessarily
passes by the realization of this world. Furthermore, this reality, almost
embryonically and in a mysterious way, is already present in the world through
the Church. So <b>it is worthwhile</b>,
above all,<b> to pay attention to the way
in which the Church, according to the doctrine of the Council, participates in
evolution and progress toward an ever more humane world and, therefore, the way
that she, in her conscience, continuously overtakes this evolution by orienting
herself to the ultimate reality that will also be the ‘plenitude of the kingdom
of God.</b>’</div>
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<b>“In many passages,</b> but perhaps primarily in chapters III and IV of
the Constitution Gaudium et Spes (first part), <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b>Vatican</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b> II speaks to us about the active
participation of the ‘kingdom’ in the evolution of the world....</b></div>
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<b>“The Church, as is evident, participates in the evolution of the world
also by means of her own evolution. <st1:place w:st="on">Vatican</st1:place> II
expresses a mature consciousness of this truth and makes it one of the
fundamental principles of the renewal program. Here the historic consciousness
of the Church is manifested in a particularly clear fashion. One may say that
the whole conciliar conception of ‘aggiornamento’ (renovatio acomodata)
expresses, above all, this consciousness By emphasizing the participation of
the Church in the evolution of the ‘world,’ even by means of her own evolution;
and, moreover, by proclaiming its necessity, Vatican II takes a stand in regard
to the past and,</b> simultaneously, <b>to
the future.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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<b>“This is a particular expression of the historic consciousness of the
Church, for the habitual category of history is only the past; the history of
salvation, on the contrary, continuously<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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dimension at the same time eschatological, essential, and dynamic, and has, in
itself, a unique reason to face the future. It is only in the totality of these
dimensions that the Church preserves a full consciousness of her own identity;
in it she also finds the basis of the whole program of renewal and
aggiornamento. Only on this fundamental condition can the Church participate in
the evolution of the world through her own ‘evolution.’ One may say that this
is the most profound substratum of the ‘historic consciousness’ of the Church.”</b>24</div>
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that the doctrinal substratum of conciliar ambiguity appears to be a new vision
of the universe, of man, of the Church and of God Himself. We will opportunely
analyze them in this Collection. Here we will limit ourselves to noting that
there is a subjacent doctrine supporting ambiguity in the conciliar documents,
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Pg. 22<br />
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A man with a withered hand<br />
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9. And when he had passed on from that place he entered their
synagogue. 10. And <i>m </i>behold, a man with a withered hand was
there. And they asked him, saying, “Is it lawful to cure on the
Sabbath?” that they might accuse him. 11. But he said to them, <i>n</i>
“What man is there among you who, if he has a single sheep and it
falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not take hold of it and lift it
out? 12. How much better is a man than a sheep! Therefore, it is
lawful to do good on the Sabbath.” 13. Then he said to the man,
“Stretch forth thy hand.” And he stretched it forth, and it was
restored, as sound as the other. 14. But the Pharisees <i>2</i> out
and took counsel against him, how they might do away with him.<br />
<br />
The Mercy of Jesus<br />
<br />
15. Then, knowing this, Jesus withdrew <i>3 </i>from the place; <i>o</i>
and many followed him and he cured them all, 16. and warned them not
to make him known; 17. that what was spoken through Isaias the
prophet might be fulfilled, who said, 18. <i>Behold, p my servant,
whom I have chosen, my beloved in whom my soul is well pleased: I
will put my Spirit upon him, and he will declare judgment to the
Gentiles.</i> 19. He <i>will not wrangle, nor cry aloud, neither will
anyone hear his voice in the streets.</i> 20. <i>A bruised reed he
will not break, and a smoking wick he will not quench, till he send
forth judgment unto victory; 21. and in his name will the Gentiles
hope.</i><br />
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Blasphemy of the Pharisees<br />
<br />
22. Then there was brought to him a possessed man who was blind
and dumb; <i>q</i> and he cured him so that he spoke and saw. 23, And
all the crowds were amazed, and they said, “Can this be the Son of
David?” 24. But the Pharisees, <i>r</i> hearing this, said, <i>4</i>
“This man does not cast out devils except by Beelzebub, the prince
of devils.”<br />
25. And knowing their thoughts Jesus said to them, <i>s</i> “Every
kingdom divided, against itself is brought to desolation, and every
city or house, divided against itself will not stand. 26. And if
Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then shall
his kingdom stand? 27. And if I cast out devils by Beelzebub, by whom
do your children cast them out? Therefore they shall be your judges.
28. But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the has come
<i>5</i> upon you. 29. Or, how can anyone enter the strong man’s
house, and plunder his goods, unless he first binds the strong man?
Then he will plunder his house.<br />
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<i>i</i> 1 Kgs. 21, 6.—<i>j</i> Lev. 24, 5-9——<i>k</i> Num. 28, 9.—<i>l</i><br />
Matt. 9, 13; Os. 6, 6.—<i>m</i> 9—14: Mark 3, 1-6; Luke<br />
6, 6-11; 14, 3-5.—<i>n</i> Deut. 22, 4—<i>o</i> Mark 3, 7-12.— <i>p</i> Isa. 42,
1-4.— <i>q</i> 22-24: Luke 11, 14f.—<i>r</i> Matt. 9, 32-34; Mark 3, 22.—<i>s</i> 25-29: Mark 3, 23-27; Luke, 11, 17-22.<br />
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1-Ver. 8. Jesus does not make use of His. sovereign power to
abrogate the Sabbath Law, but He teaches that it should be
interpreted in a reasonable way. Cf. Mark 2, 24- 26 <i>(52)</i> and
notes.<br />
2-Ver. 14. Cf. Mark 3, 6 <i>(52).</i> The Pharisees combine with
the Herodians to put,’ Jesus to death.<br />
3-Ver. 15-21. Jesus withdrew: He doubtless gave up synagogue
preaching for a time. The” prohibition against making known His
miracles, usually to be accoulited for by His desire to avoid the
over-excitement which kept people from giving proper attention to His
preaching, was probably due in this case to the wish of avoiding
conflict with the Pharisees. His meekness recalls to St. Matthew the
messianic prediction about the Servant of the Lord, in Isa, 42, 1-4
(857).<br />
4-Ver. 24. The Scribes who charged that our Lord’s supernatural
works were to be attributed to the devil were from Jerusalem,
according to Mark 3, 22 (53).<br />
5-Ver. 28. <i>The has come:</i> the victory of Jesus over the
demons indicated that He was the Messias. The king was already
gathering His people.<br />
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Pg. 23<br />
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30. He who is not with me is against me, <i>t</i> and he who does
not gather with me scatters.<br />
<b>31. “Therefore I say to you, <i>u</i> that every kind of sin
and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men; but the blasphemy against the
Spirit will not be forgiven. 32. And whoever speaks a word against
the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against
the Holy Spirit,<i>1</i> it will not be forgiven him, either in this
world or in the world to come. 33. Either make the tree good and its
fruit good, <i>v</i> or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for by
the fruit the tree is known. 34. You brood of vipers, how can you
speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaks. 35. The good man from his good treasure
brings forth good things; and the evil man from his evil treasure
brings forth evil things. 36. But I tell you, that of every idle word
<i>2</i> men speak, they shall give account on the day of judgment.
37. For by thy words thou wilt be justified, and by thy words thou
wilt be condemned.”</b><br />
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The Sign of Jonas<br />
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38. Then certain of the Scribes and Pharisees answered him,
saying, “Master, we would see a sign from thee.” 39. But he
answered and said to them, <i>w</i> “An evil and adulterous
generation demands a sign, <i>3</i> and no sign shall be given it but
the sign of Jonas the prophet. 40, For even as Jonas was in the belly
of the fish three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be
three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, 41. The men of
<i>x</i> Nineve will rise up in the judgment with this generation and
will condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonas, and
behold, a greater than Jonas is here. 42. The queen of the South will
rise up in the judgment with this generation and will condemn it; Y
for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of
Solomon, and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.<br />
43. <i>z</i> “But when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man,
he roams through dry places in search of rest, and finds none. 44.
Then he says, ‘I will return to my house which I left’; and when
he has come to it, he finds the place unoccupied, swept and
decorated. 45. <b>Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits
more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; </b><i><b>a</b></i><b>
and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall
it be with this evil generation also.”</b><br />
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Jesus and His Brethren<br />
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46, While he was still speaking b to the crowds, his mother and
his brethren were standing outside, seeking to speak to him. 47. And
someone said to him, “Behold, thy mother and thy brethren are
standing outside, seeking thee.” 48. But he answered and said to
him who told him, “Who is my mother and who are my brethren?” 49.
And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said, “Behold
my mother and my brethren!<br />
50. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my
brother and sister and mother.”<br />
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<i>t</i> Luke 11, 23.—<i>u</i> 31f: Mark 3, 28-30; Luke 12, 10.<br />
—<i>v</i> Luke 6, 43-45.—<i>w</i> 39-42: Mark 5, 116; Luke 11,<br />
29-32; Matt. 16, 4; 1 Cor. 1, 22.—<i>x</i> Jonas 3, 5.—<i>y</i>
3<br />
Kgs. 10, 1-10.—<i>z</i> 43-45: Luke 11, 24-36.—<i>a</i> 2 Pet.<br />
2, 20.—<i>b</i> 46-50: Mark 3, 31-35; Luke 8, 19-21.—<i>c</i>
1-<br />
15: Mark 4, 1-12; Luke 8, 4-10.<br />
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<b>1-Ver. 32.</b> <b>The sin against the Holy Spirit is to ascribe
to the devil the works of the Holy Spirit. One who thus attacks
directly this source of all grace, rejects the source of salvation.
It is morally impossible that he should ever meet the conditions for
absolution.</b><br />
2-Ver. 36. An idle word is one which profits neither the speaker
nor the hearer. If the word is merely useless, its utterance is not
seriously wrong.<br />
3-Var. 39. Jesus refuses a sign asked for by the incredulous, to
be given under conditions fixed by themselves. He will, however, when
the time has come, give them the sign of Jonas, that is, the
Resurrection.<br />
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Verse 30. “He who is not with me is against me, <i>t</i> and he
who does not gather with me scatters.” <b>Is the complete
condemnation of Modernism.</b><br />
<i>t</i> Luke 11, 23. quotes the same.<br />
<br />
<b>This below is the complete condemnation of the documents and
Practices of Vatican II, especially the <i>Blaspheming of the Holy
Spirit</i> by Apostate Impostor John Paul II at Assisi where he
blamed the entire VIOLATION OF THE FIRST COMMANDMENT THROUGHOUT THE
ASSISI ABOMINATION IN 2002 on the Holy Spirit .</b><br />
<br />
<b>FOR THE TAPE ON ASSISI SEE: go to
<a href="http://rhondasnando.blogspot.com/2013/02/assisi-abomination-of-desolation.html">http://rhondasnando.blogspot.com/2013/02/assisi-abomination-of-desolation.html</a></b><br />
<b>then go to part 6 at
<a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxe9wx_vts-01-6_news">http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xxe9wx_vts-01-6_news</a>
at <u>19:18-19:54</u> of 28:25 of part 6 and at <u>2:23:00-2:23:36</u>
of 2:31:48 of the whole tape which is where John Paul II the Apostate
blasphemes the Holy Spirit. His statement transcribed is: “That is
what the scripture says, the Spirit is a blowing. May the Holy Spirit
today blow – speak to the hearts of all of us here present as the
wind symbolizes. Lets listen all of us to the words of the Spirit.”
After that go back and see the entire 2 hours and 23 minutes before
he says that. If you believe that what is shown has anything to do
with the Christian faith or true Catholic religion or the Holy
Spirit, then you are not a Christian nor a Catholic. It is sheer
Satanic Apostasy.</b><br />
<br />
<b>Immediately after this supreme act of Satanic Apostasy, John
Paul the Apostate's physical condition got worse and continued to
worsen until he died by the Judgment of God and went to the Judgment
of the Just Judge, Jesus Christ. Any idea that the heresies of John
Paul II the Apostate were only prudential and that somehow
juridically he still occupied the throne of Peter was absolutely
destroyed by this singular act. The Vatican – Babylon – has
fallen, see Apocalypse 18. The Church always knew that one day, in
some way, this must absolutely come to pass since it is prophesied by
the Risen Christ.</b><br />
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<b>This Bible is the late 1940's approved Catholic CCD Critical
Greek comparison in the notes with the Vulgate Latin translation.
Note the theological note on Ver. 32 – blaspheming the Holy Spirit
will not be forgiven, just as Jesus Christ said it wouldn't – the
definition is given in the note (1. ) of what that is. That
definition fits Impostor John Paul II's statement at Assisi blaming
the Holy Spirit for their willful and knowing violation of the First
Commandment. This whole Assisi Ecumenism is the foreseen on purpose
method and goal of Modernism and is the spiritual (preternatural to
be exact) Mark of the Beast that will never be forgiven that the
Apostates at the Vatican have given themselves over to. HAVE NOTHING
TO DO WITH IT UPON PAIN OF ETERNAL DAMNATION.</b><br />
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<b>31. “Therefore I say to you, <i>u</i> that every kind of sin
and blasphemy shall be forgiven to men; but the blasphemy against the
Spirit will not be forgiven. 32. And whoever speaks a word against
the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever speaks against
the Holy Spirit, <i>1</i> it will not be forgiven him, either in this
world or in the world to come. 33. Either make the tree good and its
fruit good, <i>v</i> or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for by
the fruit the tree is known. 34. You brood of vipers, how can you
speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaks. 35. The good man from his good treasure
brings forth good things; and the evil man from his evil treasure
brings forth evil things. 36. But I tell you, that of every idle word
<i>2</i> men speak, they shall give account on the day of judgment.
37. For by thy words thou wilt be justified, and by thy words thou
wilt be condemned.”</b><br />
<br />
<b>note 1-Ver. 32.</b> <b>The sin against the Holy Spirit is to
ascribe to the devil the works of the Holy Spirit. One who thus
attacks directly this source of all grace, rejects the source of
salvation. It is morally impossible that he should ever meet the
conditions for absolution.</b><br />
<br />
43. <i>z</i> “But when the unclean spirit has gone out of a man,
he roams through dry places in search of rest, and finds none. 44.
Then he says, ‘I will return to my house which I left’; and when
he has come to it, he finds the place unoccupied, swept and
decorated. 45. <b>Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits
more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there; </b><i><b>a</b></i><b>
and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. So shall
it be with this </b><u><b>evil generation</b></u><b> also.” </b>
<br />
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<b>This <u>evil generation</u>, in the Greek generation is 'genea'
and in the Latin is 'generationi.' It is not limited to one human
generation. In this case it is every Jew, unrepentant of the crimes
of Deicide and Perfidy until the Judgement at Christ's Second Coming
and forever in eternity after that. For a Jew to repent of Judaism,
which is built on Deicide and Perfidy and not at all on the Old
Testament, and abjure all connection to Judaism and come to Christ
and confess their guilt and be Baptized in the Name of the Father and
of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and be forgiven of Deicide and
Perfidy is possible and in fact we hope they do, but they are no
longer Jews then at all, at that point they have become Christians
only.</b><br />
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<i>z</i> 43-45: Luke 11, 24-36. Luke repeats the same as Matthew</div>
Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284579948525535080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-7181867168766553772012-12-25T07:47:00.002-08:002015-05-04T14:56:53.713-07:00I came to set the captives free<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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God does not send evil upon mankind. He sends blessings.<br />
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The Devil is the author of evil and causes only trouble and tempts man.<br />
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To escape the Devil's evil, Our Lord gives us the way out: in His Holy Spirit, believe in the Gospel of Christ with a meek and humble heart ("<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">to preach the gospel to the poor he hath sent me"</span>) and rely on Him for all healing and deliverance (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">"to heal the contrite of heart, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">19 To preach deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord,"</span>) and look forward to the day of judgement and recreation of His creation, the general resurrection and judgment of all men (<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">"and the day of reward."</span>).</div>
SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-21533538151902789682012-12-20T12:46:00.002-08:002015-08-14T15:20:58.239-07:00Tech_Journal: Creation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Genesis 6:4 Now giants were upon the earth in those days. For after the sons of God went in to the daughters of men, and they brought forth children, these are the mighty men of old, men of renown.<br />
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Numbers [34] There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.<br />
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1 Kings (1 Samuel) 17:4 And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines named Goliath, of Geth, whose whose height was six cubits and a span:</div>
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Ecclesiasticus 47:5 In lifting up his hand, with the stone in the sling he [David] beat down the boasting of Goliath:</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Creation is the created order of creatures subject to the God who created them. Just as <a href="http://technischeredaktion.blogspot.com/2012/12/techjournal-giants-and-mans-sin-is.html">The giants and man's sin is the cause of the deluge</a> so is belief in evolution the evil cause of the evil apostasy from the true faith in the True God.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Science is to be commanded by faith in the Holy Trinity Adorable Unity and NOT the other way around <a href="http://bellesheures.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/charity-prayer-and-humility/">Charity, Prayer and Humility « BellesHeures's Weblog</a></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><a href="http://bellesheures.wordpress.com/eternal-faith-beliefs/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Eternal Faith & Beliefs « BellesHeures's Weblog</span></a><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Demeter greeting her daughter Persephone as she escapes from hell every year is only a myth and a tautology.</span></td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Tautology: the real definition of tautology is something that pretends to explain something else and seems to but really doesn’t. Modern day word smiths have redirected this into a tautology of a tautology; that indeed a tautology is nothing more than circular logic. If I start by saying that A=B then obviously B=A. But, again, the real classical definition of a tautology is given by the example of Persephone, the daughter of Demeter, (the Myth of the Greek goddess of spring). In the myth, </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Persephone the daughter of </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Demeter, escapes from the underworld every spring thereby causing spring to take place on the earth. The obvious fact is that there is no Persephone nor Demeter (or if they were persons many centuries ago, they are dead and </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Persephone is</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> not escaping periodically from the underworld; in Greek-Roman myth you could go there by the cave of Cumae on the shore of Lake Avernus in Italy. A real place which is rather drear looking). Given the classical definition, then, pagan mythology, Newtonian physics (with a lot of constant correctives it seems to function well enough) and especially evolution (including theistic evolution with its twin, intelligent design) are all tautologies. The modern tautologists would have us believe that the history of literal creation by God is a tautology, but it isn’t. The problem lies in the definition of science.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />The definition of science: the word in English is from scientia (Latin), gnosis (Greek) and means simply “knowledge” – any knowledge. In the classical world in which St. Paul was as at home as he was in Israel, this included Metaphysics, Physics, Logic, Mathematics, natural investigations and theories tied to preternatural and supernal and supernatural causations as well as Art, Literature, Public exhortation, Morals, Architecture, Governance and Religion to mention a few, all of which were interrelated. The place of first honor went to religion, which was agreed by all cultures to be indispensable to the rest. The neo-modern definition of science is adapted by a cabal of socialist engineers of an interdisciplinary amalgamation with no real interrelatedness except a hatred of all traditional morals of all cultures. The root of this so-called definition is the French enlightenment’s encyclopaedists’ pigeon-holing of all knowledge they could misuse in their war on God (why are they so angry with Him? after all He gave them life). Their definition changes with time and is generally of a materialist atheist genre of deus ex machina, god from a machine; the machine is their presupposition of a mechanically self operated phenomenal self created random generated universe with no more spirit than a pretense to noumenal inclusion in materialism via atomistic energies being postulated. In short they have totally misdefined knowledge as only that “science” of theirs which adheres to the above dictatorial sturm und drang of their snide presupposition. It seems they worship the god Enlil, he of the hot air, self heated, no doubt. C.S. Lewis put it this way: that they would have us believe that everything started from nothing, accidentally, and all the little accidental atoms bumped around until they accidentally came together and continued to come up with different accidents until they (the little accidental atoms) inside my own head in my brain cells accidentally came to the conclusion it was all an accident. Oh me Oh my, my poor little aching head. By the way, this is not new, it is ancient Epicureanism. When the ancient gods are added (Stoicism etc.) then you have the world of the Antichrist.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Evolution, the theory of paganism prompted by the Devil (you too can be your own god, in hell). What we see from the above is that for anyone to embrace the above axiomatic anarchy paves the way to complete destruction of everything godly; if it is all an accident, who cares about morals. The only conclusion is that if anything goes, you are your own god and the only evolving you could further undergo is to further anarchy, read destruction. Therefore as hell is the definition of utter eternal destruction you will gladly embrace the true God telling you to go to hell. We’ll see, He said there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />The secret rapture: the ultimate atheistic materialism. In view of the above, the absurd idea that God would deny the resurrection of His Son Jesus Christ, in the flesh, and our own resurrection in our own flesh, by His power in the future, and substitute simply vanishing from the Earth (the actual basis is cabballa), would mean that the God-man Jesus Christ and His children that God has given Him (we who believe) would all vanish into the universe. If the God-man and all that witness to Him, then also God Himself would vanish into the same non-heroic materialism and presto there is no God and atheism reigns. Therefore, ipso facto, the secret rapture is the ultimate (final), atheistic (God being assigned a place in the historical tautologies and not really existing), materialism (the above little accidental atoms coming to a new conclusion). The next step, the profiteers of the false doctrine of the secret rapture tell us gleefully, is the coming of the Antichrist, whom they will greet with open arms as the proof of their doctrine of: God doesn’t like those who suffer (what does that say about Christ?) but really wants us to be devoted to the idolatry of mammon in this material world. In this rejection of God and His Christ, and with the Stoic and/or other addition of the ancient gods, Christ cast down at His Cross, to the above Epicurean mentioned world, the stage will not only be set, but will greet with raucous cheers the final false god, the man-god, the Antichrist.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />The Gnostics in the first century A.D. were famous for taking over the doctrines and practices of the ancient Mesopotamian sorcery/magic and astrology as is fully recounted in the Church Fathers. The worst of all and the root, as St. Hippolytus warns us, is the Naasseni, the serpent worshipping Judeo-Gnostics.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />From CCEL and the Church Fathers in the public domain with comments.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />…This term has created the title “Ophites,” which may be regarded as the generic denomination for all the advocates of this phase of Gnosticism.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />The heresy of the Naasseni (literally “Naas” is the word for serpent; cult of Jews who were Gnostic serpent worshipping Satanists) is adverted to by the other leading writers on heresy in the early age of the Church. See St. Irenaeus, i, 34: Origen, Contr. Cels., vi 28 (p. 291 et seq. ed. Spenc.); Tertullian, Proeser., c. 47 Theodoret, Haeretic. Fabul, i. 14; Epiphanius, Advers. Haereses., xxv. and xxxvii.: St. Augustine, De Haeres., xvii.; Jerome, Comment. Epist. ad Galat., lib. ii. The Abbe Cruice reminds his readers that the Naasseni carried their doctrines into India, and refers to the Asiatic Researches (vol. x. p. 39). It was from this that the main composers of Buddhist teachings, Nagarjuna (literally “wise snake”) and Ashvaghosha, got their ideas (early second century A.D.) which are at the real historical beginning of Buddhism and not the mythic beginning around 500 B.C. concurrent with Mahavira and Goshala.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Abbe Cruice mentions the following works as of authority among the Judeo-Gnostic Naasseni, and from whence they derived their system: The Gospel of Perfection, Gospel of Eve, The Questions of Mary, Concerning the Offspring of Mary, The Gospel of Philip, The Gospel according to (1) Thomas, (2) the Egyptians.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />The Hebrew word is nachash. Hebrew for serpent and black magic and from whence comes the Indian word naga (serpent) and which is the same as nag in Nag Hammadi where the Gnostic writings were found a few decades ago and totally backed up everything that the Church Fathers said about the Gnostics.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />paraton autoon logon. Bernaysius suggests for these words, patera too autoo logoo. Schneidewin regards the emendation as an error, and Bunsen partly so. The latter would read, patera ton autoon Logon, i.e., “The Naasseni honour the Father of all existent things, the Logos, as man and the Son of Man.” That is they honor: Satan as God the Father which is absolute blasphemy, and Jesus Christ as only man and only one example of the Logos and born of Mary and Joseph and not by the virgin birth, which is also absolute apostasy. It is true that Yahweh is the true God, but certainly not any part of serpent worship; that is totally apostate.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />See Irenaeus, Haer.,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />gnosis,-a term often alluded to by St. John, and which gives its name “Gnosticism” to the various forms of the Ophitic heresy. … In this and other instances it will be found that the system, however wild and incoherent in its theology, of the Naaseni and of some of the other Gnostic sects, was one which was constructed ….</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />(The Naaseni Gnostic Jesus is also a hermaphrodite male-female. See St. Hippolytus Ante-Nicene Fathers Vol. 5 Refutatiion of all Heresies.)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />The following is the story associated with Nagarjuna:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Nagarjuna (raised a Hindu) entered a Buddhist monastery. In a mere ninety days he studied and mastered the whole of the Pali canon, the early writings of Buddhism. He left the monastery in search of more advanced teachings of the Buddha that he felt sure must exist. One day he was expounding upon the doctrine of the Buddha to a group of listeners and noticed that, following the lecture, two members of the audience disappeared into the ground. He followed them to what proved to be their home, the kingdom of the Nagas, a land inhabited by beneficent, half-divine, serpent- like beings. Here the Nagas presented Nagarjuna with occult teachings and with several volumes of sutras, canonical scriptures. These writings were the Prajnaparamitas, the “Perfection of Wisdom” sutras. (From the Person of Nagarjuna at http://bahai-library.com/personal/jw/other.pubs/nagarjuna/nag04.html)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />In connection with Agni and the entire Hindu-Buddhist pantheon, Sarasvati, the goddess of wisdom (in Tibet Arya-Sarasvati – god-goddess/Satan platonic logos) is the goddess of speech knowledge and language (words). In China and Japan the Buddhist Kuan-yin is equivalent to her. See below for the same, in the original gnostic version, who they worshipped as Satan; the gnostic Satan-mother-goddess </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />“Thunder”:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">and the speech which cannot be grasped. and great is my multitude of words.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">IN SHORT IT WAS THE APOSTATE SATAN WORSHIPPING GNOSTIC JEWS THAT CREATED BUDDHISM BY THEIR EXPORT OF THEIR BLACK MAGIC TO INDIA. IT IS TRUE THAT THE ALREADY PAGAN BASE OF HINDUISM WAS THE PAN HELLENIC – INDIAN (including earlier Mesopotamian) PAGANISM THAT IT WAS GRAFTED ONTO.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Both the Gnostic Jews and Gentiles are Satanists. Satanism and all those who follow that are damned by God.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />From God</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Dt:29:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 ¶ These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that covenant which he made with them in Horeb.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 And Moses called all Israel, and said to them: You have seen all the things that the Lord did before you in the land of Egypt to Pharao, and to all his servants, and to his whole land.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3 The great temptations, which thy eyes have seen, those mighty signs and wonders,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4 And the Lord hath not given you a heart to understand, and eyes to see, and ears that may hear, unto this present day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5 He hath brought you forty years through the desert: your garments are not worn out, neither are the shoes of your feet consumed with age.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6 You have not eaten bread, nor have you drunk wine or strong drink: that you might know that I am the Lord your God.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7 And you came to this place: and Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, came out against us to fight. And we slew them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8 And took their land, and delivered it for a possession to Ruben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9 Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and fulfil them: that you may understand all that you do.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10 ¶ You all stand this day before the Lord your God, your princes, and tribes, and ancients, and doctors, all the people of Israel,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">11 Your children and your wives, and the stranger that abideth with thee in the camp, besides the hewers of wood, and them that bring water:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">12 That thou mayst pass in the covenant of the Lord thy God, and in the oath which this day the Lord thy God maketh with thee.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">13 That he may raise thee up a people to himself, and he may be thy God as he hath spoken to thee, and as he swore to thy fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant, and confirm these oaths,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15 But with all that are present and that are absent.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">16 For you know how we dwelt in the land of Egypt, and how we have passed through the midst of nations, and passing through them,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">17 You have seen their abominations and filth, that is to say, their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which they worshipped.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18 Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20 And the Lord should not forgive him: but his wrath and jealousy against that man should be exceedingly enkindled at that time, and all the curses that are written in this volume should light upon him: and the Lord should blot out his name from under heaven,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">21 And utterly destroy him out of all the tribes of Israel, according to the curses that are contained in the book of this law and covenant:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">22 And the following generation shall say, and the children that shall be born hereafter, and the strangers that shall come from afar, seeing the plagues of that land and the evils wherewith the Lord hath afflicted it,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">23 Burning it with brimstone, and the heat of salt, so that it cannot be sown any more, nor any green thing grow therein, after the example of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha, Adama and Seboim, which the Lord destroyed in his wrath and indignation:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">24 And all the nations shall say: Why hath the Lord done thus to this land? what meaneth this exceeding great heat of his wrath?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">25 And they shall answer: Because they forsook the covenant of the Lord, which he made with their fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26 And they have served strange gods, and adored them, whom they knew not, and for whom they had not been assigned:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">27 Therefore the wrath of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this volume:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">28 And he hath cast them out of their land, in anger and in wrath, and in very great indignation, and hath thrown them into a strange land, as it is seen this day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">29 Secret (occult) things (belong) to the Lord our God: things that are manifest, to us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(DRV)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Heb:6:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 ¶ Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of Christ, let us go on to things more perfect: not laying again the foundation of penance from dead works and of faith towards God,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 Of the doctrine of baptisms and imposition of hands, and of the resurrection of the dead, and of eternal judgment.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3 And this will we do, if God permit.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4 For it is impossible for those who were once illuminated, have tasted also the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5 Have moreover tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6 And are fallen away: to be renewed again to penance, crucifying again to themselves the Son of God and making him a mockery.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7 For the earth, that drinketh in the rain which cometh often upon it and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is tilled, receiveth blessing from God.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8 But that which bringeth forth thorns and briers is reprobate and very near unto a curse: whose end is to be burnt.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Christ is our only Priest, all baptized believers are His priesthood.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />True faith </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Mt:9:2:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 And behold they brought to him one sick of the palsy lying in a bed. And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man sick of the palsy: Be of good heart, son, thy sins are forgiven thee. (DRV)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">False faith Lk:9:41:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">41 And Jesus, answering:, said: O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you and suffer you? Bring hither thy son. (DRV)</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">True disciples.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />Mk:9:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 ¶ (8-39) And he said to them: Amen I say to you that there are some of them that stand here who shall not taste death till they see the kingdom of God coming in power.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 (9-1) And after six days, Jesus taketh with him Peter and James and John, and leadeth them up into an high mountain apart by themselves, and was transfigured before them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3 (9-2) And his garments became shining and exceeding white as snow, so as no fuller upon earth can make white.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4 (9-3) And there appeared to them Elias with Moses: and they were talking with Jesus.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5 (9-4) And Peter answering, said to Jesus: Rabbi, it is good for us to be here. And let us make three tabernacles, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6 (9-5) For he knew not what he said: for they were struck with fear.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7 (9-6) And there was a cloud overshadowing them. And a voice came out of the cloud, saying: This is my most beloved Son. Hear ye him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8 (9-7) And immediately looking about, they saw no man any more, but Jesus only with them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9 (9-8 ) And as they came down from the mountain, he charged them not to tell any man what things they had seen, till the Son of man shall be risen again from the dead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10 (9-9) And they kept the word to themselves; questioning together what that should mean, when he shall be risen from the dead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">11 (9-10) And they asked him, saying: Why then do the Pharisees and scribes say that Elias must come first?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">12 (9-11) Who answering, said to then: Elias, when he shall come first, shall restore all things; and as it is written of the Son of man that he must suffer many things and be despised.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">13 (9-12) But I say to you that Elias also is come (and they have done to him whatsoever they would), as it is written of him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">14 ¶ (9-13) And coming to his disciples he saw a great multitude about them and the scribes disputing with them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15 (9-14) And presently all the people, seeing Jesus, were astonished and struck with fear: and running to him, they saluted him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">16 (9-15) And he asked them: What do you question about among you?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">17 (9-16) And one of the multitude, answering, said: Master, I have brought my son to thee, having a dumb spirit.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18 (9-17) Who, wheresoever he taketh him, dasheth him: and he foameth and gnasheth with the teeth and pineth away. And I spoke to thy disciples to cast him out: and they could not.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">19 (9-18 ) Who answering them, said: O incredulous generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I suffer you? Bring him unto me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20 (9-19) And they brought him. And when he had seen him, immediately the spirit troubled him and being thrown down upon the ground, he rolled about foaming.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">21 (9-20) And he asked his father: How long time is it since this hath happened unto him? But he said: From his infancy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">22 (9-21) And oftentimes hath he cast him into the fire and into the waters to destroy him. But if thou canst do any thing, help us, having compassion on us.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">23 (9-22) And Jesus saith to him: If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">24 (9-23) And immediately the father of the boy crying out, with tears said: I do believe, Lord. Help my unbelief.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">25 (9-24) And when Jesus saw the multitude running together, he threatened the unclean spirit, saying to him: Deaf and dumb spirit, I command thee, go out of him and enter not any more into him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26 (9-25) And crying out and greatly tearing him, he went out of him. And he became as dead, so that many said: He is dead.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">27 (9-26) But Jesus taking him by the hand, lifted him up. And he arose.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">28 (9-27) And when he was come into the house, his disciples secretly asked him: Why could not we cast him out?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">29 (9-28 ) And he said to them: This kind can go out by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30 ¶ (9-29) And departing from thence, they passed through Galilee: and he would not that any man should know it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">31 (9-30) And he taught his disciples and said to them: The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise again the third day.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">32 (9-31) But they understood not the word: and they were afraid to ask him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">33 (9-32) And they came to Capharnaum. And when they were in the house, he asked them: What did you treat of in the way?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">34 (9-33) But they held their peace, for in the way they had disputed among themselves, which of them should be the greatest.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">35 (9-34) And sitting down, he called the twelve and saith to them: If any man desire to be first, he shall be the last of all and be minister of all.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">36 (9-35) And taking a child, he set him in the midst of them. Whom when he had embraced, he saith to them:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">37 (9-36) Whosoever shall receive one such child as this in my name receiveth me. And whosoever shall receive me receiveth not me but him that sent me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">38 (9-37) John answered him, saying: Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, who followeth not us: and we forbade him.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">39 (9-38 ) But Jesus said: Do not forbid him. For there is no man that doth a miracle in my name and can soon speak ill of me.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">40 (9-39) For he that is not against you is for you.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">41 ¶ (9-40) For whosoever shall give you to drink a cup of water in my name, because you belong to Christ: amen I say to you, he shall not lose his reward.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">42 (9-41) And whosoever shall scandalize one of these little ones that believe in me: it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">43 (9-42) And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">44 (9-43) Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">45 (9-44) And if thy foot scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter lame into life everlasting than having two feet to be cast into the hell of unquenchable fire:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">46 (9-45) Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">47 (9-46) And if thy eye scandalize thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee with one eye to enter into the kingdom of God than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">48 (9-47) Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not extinguished.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">49 (9-48 ) For every one shall be salted with fire: and every victim shall be salted with salt.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">50 (9-49) Salt is good. But if the salt become unsavoury, wherewith will you season it? Have salt in you: and have peace among you.</span></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ALL OF THE CHURCH FATHERS TAUGHT LITERAL CREATION. FROM ONE OF THE MOST WELL KNOWN OF THE CHURCH FATHERS, ST. AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO, IN HIS "THE CITY OF GOD" (written from 412 A.D. to 426A.D.):<br /><br /><br />BOOK XVIII.<br /><br />CHAP. 40.—SINCE IT IS ONLY LESS THAN SIX THOUSAND YEARS FROM CREATION BY GOD IT IS ONLY DUE TO THE MOST MENDACIOUS VANITY OF THE EGYPTIANS, THAT THEY ASCRIBE TO THEIR SCIENCE AN ANTIQUITY OF A HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS.<br /><br />In vain, then, do some babble with most empty presumption, who say that Egyptian astronomy has a history of more than a hundred thousand years! For in what books have they collected that number who learned letters from Isis their mistress, not much more than two thousand years ago? Varro, who has declared this, is no small authority in history, and it does not disagree with the truth of the divine books. For since six thousand years have not yet elapsed from the days of Adam, the first man, are not those to be ridiculed rather than refuted who try to persuade us of anything regarding a space of time so different from, and contrary to, the ascertained truth?<br /><br /><br />As for Einstein, who was a Talmudic Jew, he was the worst fake trying to pass as a mathematician there ever was. His theory of relativity is false and has been shown as false, but the politically correct insist on it because they think it lets them live in an evolutionary universe where they can disregard God’s laws on morality with impugnity. Also, the politically correct do in fact like their “St. Einstein” because he gives them an excuse to believe in the “Jewish Holocaust” and ignore the real holocaust that the Jews under Lenin and Stalin and that Hitler – perpetrated against the Christian Slavic peoples in order to murder them BECAUSE they were Christian, into the tens of millions!<br /><br />The so-called gassing with no bodies because of little backyard crematoria is a total fabrication and out and out lies. Physically, it could not have happened. Also, gassing without seals is a total bad joke. It is impossible. You would kill those administering the gas. The Jews who claimed to have witnessed the gassing and burning in ovens always insisted that there were no seals for the gassing and the guards sat there just feet away with no breathing protection. The Zyklon B was in fact used elsewhere for fumigating insects. Those Jews also insisted that millions of people were incinerated in ovens (which ovens were actually planted there after the war by Stalin and not there during the war). Those ovens could not have handled even a tiny fraction of the people the Jews lie and say were incinerated. The fake incineration is very convenient as it gives them an excuse to ignore all the Jews that Hitler helped get out of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Germany</st1:country-region> and to <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:city> during the war. The reason for the fake Jewish Holocaust was part of the Jews plan to invade <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:city> and set up the kingdom of their false god, the Antichrist. So far they are successful. The German cover up about statements in Mein Kampf to supposedly prove the holocaust by Germany against the Jews are actually ghost written by a Jesuit to help the Jewish Antichrist movement in order to gain power for the Jesuit interests.<br /><br />The actual physics that works is Newtonian (actually the product of the Bernoullis, but the English had the political power so Isaac Newton, an early freemason, got the credit).<br /><br /><br />All the pagan and especially the Talmudic (which is total diabolic blaspheming of God) systems are evolutionary. The evolutionary system is Talmudic. We know better than to put any credence in that, as it blasphemes God.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. How wondrously considerate of us is God's pity! How priceless a love of charity which would sacrifice a Son to redeem a slave! God neither neglected the gifts of his mercy nor failed to protect uninterruptedly the vineyard planted by his hand. He sent laborers into it at the eleventh hour to cultivate it, and with their hoes and plowshares to uproot the thorns and thistles, as did Samgar when he killed 600 Philistines (Judges 3: 31). After the copious branches were pruned and the sucker roots with the briars were pulled out, this vineyard will produce a luscious, appetizing fruit, one capable of storage in the wine cellar of eternity, once purified in the wine-press of patience. Wickedness had indeed blazed like fire, and the human heart had grown cold, so as to destroy the wall surrounding this vineyard, just as the attacking Philistines were destroyed by the poison of worldly pleasures.</span></div>
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3. On hearing within his soul his friend's voice of invitation Francis without hesitation arose, and as another Samson strengthened by God's grace, shattered the fetters of a flattering world. Filled with the zeal of the Spirit and seizing the jawbone of an ass, he conquered not only a thousand, but many thousands of Philistines (Judges 15: 15-16) by his simple preaching, unadorned with the persuasive words of human wisdom (I Cor 1:17), and made forceful by the power of God, who chooses the weak of this world to confound the strong (I Cor 1:17). With the help of God he accomplished this: God who touches mountains and they smoke (Ps 103:32), so bringing to spiritual service those who were once slaves to the allurements of the flesh. For those who died to sin and live only for God and not for themselves (namely, whose worse part has died), there flowed from this jawbone an abundant stream of water: refreshing, cleansing, rendering fruitful the fallen, downtrodden and thirsty. This river of water reaching unto eternal life (Jn 7: 38), might be purchased without silver and without cost (Is 55:1), and like branches far and wide its rivulets watered the vineyard whose branches extended unto the sea and its boughs unto the river (Ps 79:12).</div>
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4. After the example of our father Abraham, this man forgot not only his country and acquaintances, but also his father's house, to go to a land which the Lord had shown him by divine inspiration (Gen 12). Pushing aside any obstacle he pressed on to win the prize of his heavenly call (Phil. 3:14). Conforming himself to Him (Rom 8:29) who, though rich, for our sake became poor (II Cor 8:9), he unburdened himself of a heavy load of material possessions so as to pass easily through the narrow gate (Mt 7:13). He disbursed his wealth to the poor, so that his justice might endure forever (Ps 111:9).</div>
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Nearing the land of vision he offered his own body as a holocaust to the Lord upon one of the mountains indicated to him (Gen 22:2), the mountain which is the excellence of faith. His flesh, which now and then had tricked him, he sacrificed as Jephte his only daughter (Judges 11:34), lighting under it the fire of love, punishing it with hunger, thirst, cold, nakedness and with many fasts and vigils. When it had been crucified with its vices and concupiscences (Gal 5:24), he could say with the Apostle: "I live now, not I, but Christ lives in me" (Gal 2:20). For he really did not live for himself any longer, but rather for Christ, who died for our sins and rose for our justification (Rom 4:25), that we might no longer be slaves to sin (Rom 6:6).</div>
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5. But that he might not be the only one to enjoy the blessings of the mountain, clinging exclusively to the embraces of Rachel, as it were to a life of contemplation lovely but sterile, he descended to the forbidden house of Leah to lead into the desert the flock fertile with twins (Cant 4:2) and seeking pastures of life Gen 29). There, where the manna of heavenly sweetness restores all who have been separated from the noisy world, he would be seated with the princes of his people and crowned with the crown of justice. Sowing his seed in tears, he would come back rejoicing carrying his sheaves to the storehouse of eternity (Ps 125:5-6).</div>
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Surely he sought not his own interests (Phil 2:21), but those of Christ, serving Him zealously like the proverbial bee. As the morning star in the midst of a cloud, and as the moon at the full (Eccles. 50,6), he took in his hands a lamp with which to draw the humble by the example of his glorious deeds, and a trumpet wherewith to recall the shameless with stern and fearsome warnings from their wicked abandon.</div>
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Thus strengthened by charity he courageously took possession of the Midianite camp (Judges 7:16-22), that is, the camp of those who contemptuously disregard the teaching of the Church, with the support of Him who encompassed the whole world by His authority, even while still cloistered in the Virgin's womb. He captured the weapons on which the well-armed man trusted while guarding his house and parceling out his spoils (Lk 11:21-22), and he led captivity captive in submission to Jesus Christ (Eph 4:8).</div>
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6. After defeating the threefold earthly enemy, he did violence to the kingdom of heaven and seized it by force (Mt 11:12). After many glorious battles in this life he triumphed over the world, and he who was knowingly unlettered and wisely foolish, happily returned to the Lord to take the first place before many others more learned.</div>
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7. Plainly a life such as his, so holy, so passionate, so brilliant, was enough to win him a place in the Church Triumphant. Yet, because the Church Militant, which can only observe the outer appearances, does not presume to judge on its own authority those not sharing its actual state, it proposes for veneration as Saints only those whose lives on earth merited such, especially because an angel of Satan sometimes transforms himself into an angel of light (II Cor 11:14). In his generosity the omnipotent and merciful God has provided that the aforementioned Servant of Christ did come and serve Him worthily and commendably. Not permitting so great a light to remain hidden under a bushel, but wishing to put it on a lampstand to console those dwelling in the house of light (Mt 5:15), God declared through many brilliant miracles that his life has been acceptable to God and his memory should be honored by the Church Militant.</div>
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8. Therefore, since the wondrous events of his glorious life are quite well known to us because of the great familiarity he had with us while we still occupied a lower rank, and since we are fully convinced by reliable witnesses of the many brilliant miracles, we and the flock entrusted to us, by the mercy of God, are confident of being assisted at his intercession and of having in heaven a patron whose friendship we enjoyed on earth. With the consultation and approval of our Brothers, we have decreed that he be enrolled in the catalogue of saints worthy of veneration.</div>
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9. We decree that his birth be celebrated worthily and solemnly by the universal Church on the fourth of October, the day on which he entered the kingdom of heaven, freed from the prison of the flesh.</div>
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10. Hence, in the Lord we beg, admonish and exhort all of you, we command you by this apostolic letter, that on this day reserved to honor his memory, you dedicate yourselves more intensely to the divine praises, and humbly to implore his patronage, so that through his intercession and merits you might be found worthy of joining his company with the help of Him who is blessed forever. Amen.</div>
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<i>Given at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Perugia</st1:place></st1:city>, on the fourteenth calends of August, in the second year of our pontificate.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Gregory IX, addressed to some theologians of his time: “Some among you, puffed up like bladders with the spirit of vanity strive by profane novelties to cross the boundaries fixed by the Fathers, twisting the meaning of the sacred text…to the philosophical teaching of the rationalists, not for the profit of their hearer but to make a show of science…these men, led away by various and strange doctrines, turn the head into the tail and force the queen to serve the handmaid.”[10]</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />10. Gregory IX Epist. ad Magistros theol. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">paris</st1:place></st1:city>. July 7, 1223.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Saint Francis of <st1:city w:st="on">Assisi</st1:city>, 1181 – October 3, 1226, brother of Catholics and Muslims, blessed peacemaker, worshipper of the true God Holy Trinity Adorable Unity Who created all that has been created, left the legacy of a restored faith in Europe and the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East. That</st1:place> restored faith is that which lasted through the centuries and which allowed Pope Pius X to firmly declare the truth quoting Pope Gregory IX in doing so and show that evolution of religion and science and history are all condemned:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">PASCENDI DOMINICI GREGIS</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ON THE DOCTRINE OF THE MODERNISTS</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">ENCYCLICAL OF POPE PIUS X, SEPTEMBER 8, 1907</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">VENERABLE BRETHREN, HEALTH AND THE APOSTOLIC BLESSING:</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. One of the primary obligations assigned by Christ to the office divinely committed to Us of feeding the Lord's flock is that of guarding with the greatest vigilance the deposit of the faith delivered to the saints, rejecting the profane novelties of words and the gainsaying of knowledge falsely so called. There has never been a time when this watchfulness of the supreme pastor was not necessary to the Catholic body, for owing to the efforts of the enemy of the human race, there have never been lacking "men speaking perverse things,"1 "vain talkers and seducers,"2 "erring and driving into error."3 It must, however, be confessed that these latter days have witnessed a notable increase in the number of the enemies of the Cross of Christ, who, by arts entirely new and full of deceit, are striving to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, as far as in them lies, utterly to subvert the very Kingdom of Christ. Wherefore We may no longer keep silence, lest We should seem to fail in Our most sacred duty, and lest the kindness that, in the hope of wiser counsels, We have hitherto shown them, should be set down to lack of diligence in the discharge of Our office.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. That We should act without delay in this matter is made imperative especially by the fact that the partisans of error are to be sought not only among the Church's open enemies; but, what is to be most dreaded and deplored, in her very bosom, and are the more mischievous the less they keep in the open. We allude, Venerable Brethren, to many who belong to the Catholic laity, and, what is much more sad, to the ranks of the priesthood itself, who, animated by a false zeal for the Church, lacking the solid safeguards of philosophy and theology, nay more, thoroughly imbued with the poisonous doctrines taught by the enemies of the Church, and lost to all sense of modesty, put themselves forward as reformers of the Church; and, forming more boldly into line of attack, assail all that is most sacred in the work of Christ, not sparing even the Person of the Divine Redeemer, whom, with sacrilegious audacity, they degrade to the condition of a simple and ordinary man.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. Although they express their astonishment that We should number them amongst the enemies of the Church, no one will be reasonably surprised that We should do so, if, leaving out of account the internal disposition of the soul, of which God alone is the Judge, he considers their tenets, their manner of speech, and their action. Nor indeed would he be wrong in regarding them as the most pernicious of all the adversaries of the Church. For, as We have said, they put into operation their designs for her undoing, not from without but from within. Hence, the danger is present almost in the very veins and heart of the Church, whose injury is the more certain from the very fact that their knowledge of her is more intimate. Moreover, they lay the ax not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root, that is, to the faith and its deepest fibers. And once having struck at this root of immortality, they proceed to diffuse poison through the whole tree, so that there is no part of Catholic truth which they leave untouched, none that they do not strive to corrupt. Further, none is more skillful, none more astute than they, in the employment of a thousand noxious devices; for they play the double part of rationalist and Catholic, and this so craftily that they easily lead the unwary into error; and as audacity is their chief characteristic, there is no conclusion of any kind from which they shrink or which they do not thrust forward with pertinacity and assurance To this must be added the fact, which indeed is well calculated to deceive souls, that they lead a life of the greatest activity, of assiduous and ardent application to every branch of learning, and that they possess, as a rule, a reputation for irreproachable morality. Finally, there is the fact which is all hut fatal to the hope of cure that their very doctrines have given such a bent to their minds, that they disdain all authority and brook no restraint; and relying upon a false conscience, they attempt to ascribe to a love of truth that which is in reality the result of pride and obstinacy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Once indeed We had hopes of recalling them to a better mind, and to this end We first of all treated them with kindness as Our children, then with severity; and at last We have had recourse, though with great reluctance, to public reproof. It is known to you, Venerable Brethren, how unavailing have been Our efforts. For a moment they have bowed their head, only to lift it more arrogantly than before. If it were a matter which concerned them alone, We might perhaps have overlooked it; but the security of the Catholic name is at stake. Wherefore We must interrupt a silence which it would be criminal to prolong, that We may point out to the whole Church, as they really are, men who are badly disguised.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. It is one of the cleverest devices of the Modernists (as they are commonly and rightly called) to present their doctrines without order and systematic arrangement, in a scattered and disjointed manner, so as to make it appear as if their minds were in doubt or hesitation, whereas in reality they are quite fixed and steadfast. For this reason it will be of advantage, Venerable Brethren, to bring their teachings together here into one group, and to point out their interconnection, and thus to pass to an examination of the sources of the errors, and to prescribe remedies for averting the evil results.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. To proceed in an orderly manner in this somewhat abstruse subject, it must first of all be noted that the Modernist sustains and includes within himself a manifold personality; he is a philosopher, a believer, a theologian, an historian, a critic, an apologist, a reformer. These roles must be clearly distinguished one from another by all who would accurately understand their system and thoroughly grasp the principles and the outcome of their doctrines.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6. We begin, then, with the philosopher. Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is commonly called Agnosticism. According to this teaching human reason is confined entirely within the field of phenomena, that is to say, to things that appear, and in the manner in which they appear: it has neither the right nor the power to overstep these limits. Hence it is incapable of lifting itself up to God, and of recognizing His existence, even by means of visible things. From this it is inferred that God can never be the direct object of science, and that, as regards history, He must not be considered as an historical subject. Given these premises, everyone will at once perceive what becomes of Natural Theology, of the motives of credibility, of external revelation. The modernists simply sweep them entirely aside; they include them in Intellectualism, which they denounce as a system which is ridiculous and long since defunct. Nor does the fact that the Church has formally condemned these portentous errors exercise the slightest restraint upon them. Yet the Vatican Council has defined, "If anyone says that the one true God, our Creator and Lord, cannot be known with certainty by the natural light of human reason by means of the things that are made, let him be anathema";4 and also, "If anyone says that it is not possible or not expedient that man be taught, through the medium of divine revelation, about God and the worship to be paid Him, let him be anathema'';5 and finally, "If anyone says that divine revelation cannot be made credible by external signs, and that therefore men should be drawn to the faith only by their personal internal experience or by private inspiration, let him be anathema."6 It may be asked, in what way do the Modernists contrive to make the transition from Agnosticism, which is a state of pure nescience, to scientific and historic Atheism, which is a doctrine of positive denial; and consequently, by what legitimate process of reasoning, they proceed from the fact of ignorance as to whether God has in fact intervened in the history of the human race or not, to explain this history, leaving God out altogether, as if He really had not intervened. Let him answer who can. Yet it is a fixed and established principle among them that both science and history must be atheistic: and within their boundaries there is room for nothing but phenomena; God and all that is divine are utterly excluded. We shall soon see clearly what, as a consequence of this most absurd teaching, must be held touching the most sacred Person of Christ, and the mysteries of His life and death, and of His Resurrection and Ascension into Heaven.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7. However, this Agnosticism is only the negative part of the system of the Modernists: the positive part consists in what they call vital immanence. Thus they advance from one to the other. Religion, whether natural or supernatural, must, like every other fact, admit of some explanation. But when natural theology has been destroyed, and the road to revelation closed by the rejection of the arguments of credibility, and all external revelation absolutely denied, it is clear that this explanation will be sought in vain outside of man himself. It must, therefore, be looked for in man; and since religion is a form of life, the explanation must certainly be found in the life of man. In this way is formulated the principle of religious immanence. Moreover, the first actuation, so to speak, of every vital phenomenon -- and religion, as noted above, belongs to this category -- is due to a certain need or impulsion; but speaking more particularly of life, it has its origin in a movement of the heart, which movement is called a sense. Therefore, as God is the object of religion, we must conclude that faith, which is the basis and foundation of all religion, must consist in a certain interior sense, originating in a need of the divine. This need of the divine, which is experienced only in special and favorable circumstances. cannot of itself appertain to the domain of consciousness, but is first latent beneath consciousness, or, to borrow a term from modern philosophy, in the subconsciousness, where also its root lies hidden and undetected.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">It may perhaps be asked how it is that this need of the divine which man experiences within himself resolves itself into religion? To this question the Modernist reply would be as follows: Science and history are confined within two boundaries, the one external, namely, the visible world, the other internal, which is consciousness. When one or other of these limits has been reached, there can be no further progress, for beyond is the unknowable. In presence of this unknowable, whether it is outside man and beyond the visible world of nature, or lies hidden within the subconsciousness, the need of the divine in a soul which is prone to religion excites -- according to the principles of Fideism, without any previous advertence of the mind -- a certain special sense, and this sense possesses, implied within itself both as its own object and as its intrinsic cause, the divine reality itself, and in a way unites man with God. It is this sense to which Modernists give the name of faith, and this is what they hold to be the beginning of religion.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8. But we have not yet reached the end of their philosophizing, or, to speak more accurately, of their folly. Modernists find in this sense not only faith, but in and with faith, as they understand it, they affirm that there is also to be found revelation. For, indeed, what more is needed to constitute a revelation? Is not that religious sense which is perceptible in the conscience, revelation, or at least the beginning of revelation? Nay, is it not God Himself manifesting Himself, indistinctly, it is true, in this same religious sense, to the soul? And they add: Since God is both the object and the cause of faith, this revelation is at the same time of God and from God, that is to say, God is both the Revealer and the Revealed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">From this, Venerable Brethren, springs that most absurd tenet of the Modernists, that every religion, according to the different aspect under which it is viewed, must be considered as both natural and supernatural. It is thus that they make consciousness and revelation synonymous. From this they derive the law laid down as the universal standard, according to which religious consciousness is to be put on an equal footing with revelation, and that to it all must submit, even the supreme authority of the Church, whether in the capacity of teacher, or in that of legislator in the province of sacred liturgy or discipline.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9. In all this process, from which, according to the Modernists, faith and revelation spring, one point is to be particularly noted, for it is of capital importance on account of the historicocritical corollaries which they deduce from it. The unknowable they speak of does not present itself to faith as something solitary and isolated; hut on the contrary in close conjunction with some phenomenon, which, though it belongs to the realms of science or history, yet to some extent exceeds their limits. Such a phenomenon may be a fact of nature containing within itself something mysterious; or it may be a man, whose character, actions, and words cannot, apparently, be reconciled with the ordinary laws of history. Then faith, attracted by the unknowable which is united with the phenomenon, seizes upon the whole phenomenon, and, as it were, permeates it with its own life. From this two things follow. The first is a sort of transfiguration of the phenomenon, by its elevation above its own true conditions, an elevation by which it becomes more adapted to clothe itself with the form of the divine character which faith will bestow upon it. The second consequence is a certain disfiguration -- so it may be called -- of the same phenomenon, arising from the fact that faith attributes to it, when stripped of the circumstances of place and time, characteristics which it does not really possess; and this takes place especially in the case of the phenomena of the past, and the more fully in the measure of their antiquity. From these two principles the Modernists deduce two laws, which, when united with a third which they have already derived from agnosticism, constitute the foundation of historic criticism. An example may be sought in the Person of Christ. In the Person of Christ, they say, science and history encounter nothing that is not human. Therefore, in virtue of the first canon deduced from agnosticism, whatever there is in His history suggestive of the divine must be rejected. Then, according to the second canon, the historical Person of Christ was transfigured by faith; therefore everything that raises it above historical conditions must be removed. Lastly, the third canon, which lays down that the Person of Christ has been disfigured by faith, requires that everything should be excluded, deeds and words and all else, that is not in strict keeping with His character, condition, and education, and with the place and time in which He lived. A method of reasoning which is passing strange, but in it we have the Modernist criticism.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10. It is thus that the religious sense, which through the agency of vital immanence emerges from the lurking-places of the subconsciousness, is the germ of all religion, and the explanation of everything that has been or ever will be in any religion. This sense, which was at first only rudimentary and almost formless, under the influence of that mysterious principle from which it originated, gradually matured with the progress of human life, of which, as has been said, it is a certain form. This, then, is the origin of all. even of supernatural religion. For religions are mere developments of this religious sense. Nor is the Catholic religion an exception; it is quite on a level with the rest; for it was engendered, by the process of vital immanence, and by no other way, in the consciousness of Christ, who was a man of the choicest nature, whose like has never been, nor will be. In hearing these things we shudder indeed at so great an audacity of assertion and so great a sacrilege. And yet, Venerable Brethren, these are not merely the foolish babblings of unbelievers. There are Catholics, yea, and priests too, who say these things openly; and they boast that they are going to reform the Church by these ravings! The question is no longer one of the old error which claimed for human nature a sort of right to the supernatural. It has gone far beyond that, and has reached the point when it is affirmed that our most holy religion, in the man Christ as in us, emanated from nature spontaneously and of itself. Nothing assuredly could be more utterly destructive of the whole supernatural order. For this reason the Vatican Council most justly decreed: "If anyone says that man cannot be raised by God to a knowledge and perfection which surpasses nature, but that he can and should, by his own efforts and by a constant development, attain finally to the possession of all truth and good, let him be anathema."7</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">11. So far, Venerable Brethren, there has been no mention of the intellect. It also, according to the teaching of the Modernists, has its part in the act of faith. And it is of importance to see how. In that sense of which We have frequently spoken, since sense is not knowledge, they say God, indeed, presents Himself to man, but in a manner so confused and indistinct that He can hardly be perceived by the believer. It is therefore necessary that a certain light should be cast upon this sense so that God may clearly stand out in relief and be set apart from it. This is the task of the intellect, whose office it is to reflect and to analyze; and by means of it, man first transforms into mental pictures the vital phenomena which arise within him, and then expresses them in words. Hence the common saying of Modernists: that the religious man must think his faith. The mind then, encountering this .sense, throws itself upon it, and works in it after the manner of a painter who restores to greater clearness the lines of a picture that have been dimmed with age. The simile is that of one of the leaders of Modernism. The operation of the mind in this work is a double one: first, by a natural and spontaneous act it expresses its concept in a simple, popular statement; then, on reflection and deeper consideration, or, as they say, by elaborating its thought, it expresses the idea in secondary propositions, which are derived from the first, but are more precise and distinct. These secondary propositions, if they finally receive the approval of the supreme magisterium of the Church, constitute dogma.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">12. We have thus reached one of the principal points in the Modernist's system, namely, the origin and the nature of dogma. For they place the origin of dogma in those primitive and simple formulas, which, under a certain aspect, are necessary to faith; for revelation, to be truly such, requires the clear knowledge of God in the consciousness. But dogma itself, they apparently hold, strictly consists in the secondary formulas .</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">To ascertain the nature of dogma, we must first find the relation which exists between the religious formulas and the religious sense. This will be readily perceived by anyone who holds that these formulas have no other purpose than to furnish the believer with a means of giving to himself an account of his faith. These formulas therefore stand midway between the believer and his faith; in their relation to the faith they are the inadequate expression of its object, and are usually called symbols; in their relation to the believer they are mere instruments.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Hence it is quite impossible to maintain that they absolutely contain the truth: for, in so far as they are symbols, they are the images of truth, and so must be adapted to the religious sense in its relation to man; and as instruments, they are the vehicles of truth, and must therefore in their turn be adapted to man in his relation to the religious sense. But the object of the religious sense, as something contained in the absolute, possesses an infinite variety of aspects, of which now one, now another, may present itself. In like manner he who believes can avail himself of varying conditions. Consequently, the formulas which we call dogma must be subject to these vicissitudes, and are, therefore, liable to change. Thus the way is open to the intrinsic evolution of dogma. Here we have an immense structure of sophisms which ruin and wreck all religion.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">13. Dogma is not only able, but ought to evolve and to be changed. This is strongly affirmed by the Modernists, and clearly flows from their principles. For among the chief points of their teaching is the following, which they deduce from the principle of vital immanence, namely, that religious formulas if they are to be really religious and not merely intellectual speculations, ought to be living and to live the life of the religious sense. This is not to be understood to mean that these formulas, especially if merely imaginative, were to be invented for the religious sense. Their origin matters nothing, any more than their number or quality. What is necessary is that the religious sense -- with some modification when needful -- should vitally assimilate them. In other words, it is necessary that the primitive formula be accepted and sanctioned by the heart; and similarly the subsequent work from which are brought forth the .secondary formulas must proceed under the guidance of the heart. Hence it comes that these formulas, in order to be living, should be, and should remain, adapted to the faith and to him who believes. Wherefore, if for any reason this adaptation should cease to exist, they lose their first meaning and accordingly need to be changed. In view of the fact that the character and lot of dogmatic formulas are so unstable, it is no wonder that Modernists should regard them so lightly and in such open disrespect, and have no consideration or praise for anything but the religious sense and for the religious life. In this way, with consummate audacity, they criticize the Church, as having strayed from the true path by failing to distinguish between the religious and moral sense of formulas and their surface meaning, and by clinging vainly and tenaciously to meaningless formulas, while religion itself is allowed to go to ruin. "Blind'- they are, and "leaders of the blind" puffed up with the proud name of science, they have reached that pitch of folly at which they pervert the eternal concept of truth and the true meaning of religion; in introducing a new system in which "they are seen to be under the sway of a blind and unchecked passion for novelty, thinking not at all of finding some solid foundation of truth, but despising the holy and apostolic traditions, they embrace other and vain, futile, uncertain doctrines, unapproved by the Church, on which, in the height of their vanity, they think they can base and maintain truth itself."8</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">14. Thus far, Venerable Brethren, We have considered the Modernist as a philosopher. Now if We proceed to consider him as a believer, and seek to know how the believer, according to Modernism, is marked off from the philosopher, it must be observed that, although the philosopher recognizes the reality of the divine as the object of faith, still this reality is not to be found by him but in the heart of the believer, as an object of feeling and affirmation, and therefore confined within the sphere of phenomena; but the question as to whether in itself it exists outside that feeling and affirmation is one which the philosopher passes over and neglects. For the Modernist believer, on the contrary, it is an established and certain fact that the reality of the divine does really exist in itself and quite independently of the person who believes in it. If you ask on what foundation this assertion of the believer rests, he answers: In the personal experience of the individual. On this head the Modernists differ from the Rationalists only to fall into the views of the Protestants and pseudo-mystics. The following is their manner of stating the question: In the religious sense one must recognize a kind of intuition of the heart which puts man in immediate contact with the reality of God, and infuses such a persuasion of God's existence and His action both within and without man as far to exceed any scientific conviction. They assert, therefore, the existence of a real experience, and one of a kind that surpasses all rational experience. If this experience is denied by some, like the Rationalists, they say that this arises from the fact that such persons are unwilling to put themselves in the moral state necessary to produce it. It is this experience which makes the person who acquires it to be properly and truly a believer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">How far this position is removed from that of Catholic teaching! We have already seen how its fallacies have been condemned by the Vatican Council. Later on, we shall see how these errors, combined with those which we have already mentioned, open wide the way to Atheism. Here it is well to note at once that, given this doctrine of experience united with that of symbolism, every religion, even that of paganism, must be held to be true. What is to prevent such experiences from being found in any religion? In fact, that they are so is maintained by not a few. On what grounds can Modernists deny the truth of an experience affirmed by a follower of Islam? Will they claim a monopoly of true experiences for Catholics alone? Indeed, Modernists do not deny, but actually maintain, some confusedly, others frankly, that all religions are true. That they cannot feel otherwise is obvious. For on what ground, according to their theories, could falsity be predicated of any religion whatsoever? Certainly it would be either on account of the falsity of the religious .sense or on account of the falsity of the formula pronounced by the mind. Now the religious sense, although it maybe more perfect or less perfect, is always one and the same; and the intellectual formula, in order to be true, has but to respond to the religious sense and to the believer, whatever be the intellectual capacity of the latter. In the conflict between different religions, the most that Modernists can maintain is that the Catholic has more truth because it is more vivid, and that it deserves with more reason the name of Christian because it corresponds more fully with the origins of Christianity. No one will find it unreasonable that these consequences flow from the premises. But what is most amazing is that there are Catholics and priests, who, We would fain believe, abhor such enormities, and yet act as if they fully approved of them. For they lavish such praise and bestow such public honor on the teachers of these errors as to convey the belief that their admiration is not meant merely for the persons, who are perhaps not devoid of a certain merit, but rather for the sake of the errors which these persons openly profess and which they do all in their power to propagate.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15. There is yet another element in this part of their teaching which is absolutely contrary to Catholic truth. For what is laid down as to experience is also applied with destructive effect to tradition, which has always been maintained by the Catholic Church. Tradition, as understood by the Modernists, is a communication with others of an original experience, through preaching by means of the intellectual formula. To this formula, in addition to its representative value they attribute a species of suggestive efficacy which acts firstly in the believer by stimulating the religious sense, should it happen to have grown sluggish, and by renewing the experience once acquired, and secondly, in those who do not yet believe by awakening in them for the first time the religious sense and producing the experience. In this way is religious experience spread abroad among the nations; and not merely among contemporaries by preaching, but among future generations both by books and by oral transmission from one to another. Sometimes this communication of religious experience takes root and thrives, at other times it withers at once and dies. For the Modernists, to live is a proof of truth, since for them life and truth are one and the same thing. Thus we are once more led to infer that all existing religions are equally true, for otherwise they would not survive.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">16. We have proceeded sufficiently far, Venerable Brethren, to have before us enough, and more than enough, to enable us to see what are the relations which Modernists establish between faith and science -- including, as they are wont to do under that name, history. And in the first place it is to be held that the object-matter of the one is quite extraneous to and separate from the object-matter of the other. For faith occupies itself solely with something which science declares to be for it unknowable. Hence each has a separate scope assigned to it: science is entirely concerned with phenomena, into which faith does not at all enter; faith, on the contrary, concerns itself with the divine, which is entirely unknown to science. Thus it is contended that there can never be any dissension between faith and science, for if each keeps on its own ground they can never meet and therefore never can be in contradiction. And if it be objected that in the visible world there are some things which appertain to faith, such as the human life of Christ, the Modernists reply by denying this. For though such things come within the category of phenomena, still in as far as they are lived by faith and in the way already described have been by faith transfigured and disfigured, they have been removed from the world of sense and transferred into material for the divine. Hence should it be further asked whether Christ has wrought real miracles, and made real prophecies, whether He rose truly from the dead and ascended into Heaven, the answer of agnostic science will be in the negative and the answer of faith in the affirmative yet there will not be, on that account, any conflict between them. For it will be denied by the philosopher as a philosopher speaking to philosophers and considering Christ only in historical reality; and it will be affirmed by the believer as a believer speaking to believers and considering the life of Christ as lived again by the faith and in the faith.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">17. It would be a great mistake, nevertheless, to suppose that, according to these theories, one is allowed to believe that faith and science are entirely independent of each other. On the side of science that is indeed quite true and correct, but it is quite otherwise with regard to faith, which is subject to science, not on one but on three grounds. For in the first place it must be observed that in every religious fact, when one takes away the divine reality and the experience of it which the believer possesses, everything else, and especially the religious formulas, belongs to the sphere of phenomena and therefore falls under the control of science. Let the believer go out of the world if he will, but so long as he remains in it, whether he like it or not, he cannot escape from the laws, the observation, the judgments of science and of history. Further, although it is contended that God is the object of faith alone, the statement refers only to the divine reality, not to the idea of God. The latter also is subject to science which, while it philosophizes in what is called the logical order, soars also to the absolute and the ideal. It is therefore the right of philosophy and of science to form its knowledge concerning the idea of God, to direct it in its evolution and to purify it of any extraneous elements which may have entered into it. Hence we have the Modernist axiom that the religious evolution ought to be brought into accord with the moral and intellectual, or as one whom they regard as their leader has expressed it, ought to be subject to it. Finally, man does not suffer a dualism to exist in himself, and the believer therefore feels within him an impelling need so to harmonize faith with science that it may never oppose the general conception which science sets forth concerning the universe.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Thus it is evident that science is to be entirely independent of faith, while on the other hand, and notwithstanding that they are supposed to be strangers to each other, faith is made subject to science. All this, Venerable Brethren, is in formal opposition to the teachings of Our predecessor, Pius IX, where he lays it down that: "In matters of religion it is the duty of philosophy not to command but to serve, not to prescribe what is to be believed, but to embrace what is to be believed with reasonable obedience, not to scrutinize the depths of the mysteries of God, but to venerate them devoutly and humbly."9</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Modernists completely invert the parts, and of them may be applied the words which another of Our predecessors Gregory IX, addressed to some theologians of his time: "Some among you, puffed up like bladders with the spirit of vanity strive by profane novelties to cross the boundaries fixed by the Fathers, twisting the meaning of the sacred text...to the philosophical teaching of the rationalists, not for the profit of their hearer but to make a show of science...these men, led away by various and strange doctrines, turn the head into the tail and force the queen to serve the handmaid."10</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18. This will appear more clearly to anybody who studies the conduct of Modernists, which is in perfect harmony with their teachings. In their writings and addresses they seem not unfrequently to advocate doctrines which are contrary one to the other, so that one would be disposed to regard their attitude as double and doubtful. But this is done deliberately and advisedly, and the reason of it is to be found in their opinion as to the mutual separation of science and faith. Thus in their books one finds some things which might well be approved by a Catholic, but on turning over the page one is confronted by other things which might well have been dictated by a rationalist. When they write history they make no mention of the divinity of Christ, but when they are in the pulpit they profess it clearly; again, when they are dealing with history they take no account of the Fathers and the Councils, but when they catechize the people, they cite them respectfully. In the same way they draw their distinctions between exegesis which is theological and pastoral and exegesis which is scientific and historical. So, too, when they treat of philosophy, history, and criticism, acting on the principle that science in no way depends upon faith, they feel no especial horror in treading in the footsteps of Luther11 and are wont to display a manifold contempt for Catholic doctrines, for the Holy Fathers, for the Ecumenical Councils, for the ecclesiastical magisterium; and should they be taken to task for this, they complain that they are being deprived of their liberty. Lastly, maintaining the theory that faith must be subject to science, they continuously and openly rebuke the Church on the ground that she resolutely refuses to submit and accommodate her dogmas to the opinions of philosophy; while they, on their side, having for this purpose blotted out the old theology, endeavor to introduce a new theology which shall support the aberrations of philosophers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">19. At this point, Venerable Brethren, the way is opened for us to consider the Modernists in the theological arena -- a difficult task, yet one that may be disposed of briefly. It is a question of effecting the conciliation of faith with science, but always by making the one subject to the other. In this matter the Modernist theologian takes exactly the same principles which we have seen employed by the Modernist philosopher -- the principles of immanence and symbolism -- and applies them to the believer. The process is an extremely simple one. The philosopher has declared: The principle of faith is immanent; the believer has added: This principle is God; and the theologian draws the conclusion: God is immanent in man. Thus we have theological immanence. So, too, the philosopher regards it as certain that the representations of the object of faith are merely symbolical; the believer has likewise affirmed that the object of faith is God in himself; and the theologian proceeds to affirm that: The representations of the divine reality are symbolical. And thus we have theological symbolism. These errors are truly of the gravest kind and the pernicious character of both will be seen clearly from an examination of their consequences. For, to begin with symbolism, since symbols are but symbols in regard to their objects and only instruments in regard to the believer, it is necessary first of all, according to the teachings of the Modernists, that the believer does not lay too much stress on the formula, as formula, but avail himself of it only for the purpose of uniting himself to the absolute truth which the formula at once reveals and conceals, that is to say, endeavors to express but without ever succeeding in doing so. They would also have the believer make use of the formulas only in as far as they are helpful to him, for they are given to be a help and not a hindrance; with proper regard, however, for the social respect due to formulas which the public magisterium has deemed suitable for expressing the common consciousness until such time as the same magisterium shall provide otherwise. Concerning immanence it is not easy to determine what Modernists precisely mean by it, for their own opinions on the subject vary. Some understand it in the sense that God working in man is more intimately present in him than man is even in himself; and this conception, if properly understood, is irreproachable. Others hold that the divine action is one with the action of nature, as the action of the first cause is one with the action of the secondary cause; and this would destroy the supernatural order. Others, finally, explain it in a way which savors of pantheism, and this, in truth, is the sense which best fits in with the rest of their doctrines.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20. With this principle of immanence is connected another which may be called the principle of divine permanence. It differs from the first in much the same way as the private experience differs from the experience transmitted by tradition. An example illustrating what is meant will be found in the Church and the sacraments. The Church and the sacraments according to the Modernists, are not to be regarded as having been instituted by Christ Himself. This is barred by agnosticism, which recognizes in Christ nothing more than a man whose religious consciousness has been, like that of all men, formed by degrees; it is also barred by the law of immanence, which rejects what they call external application; it is further barred by the law of evolution, which requires, for the development of the germs, time and a certain series of circumstances; it is finally, barred by history, which shows that such in fact has been the course of things. Still it is to he held that both Church and sacraments have been founded mediately by Christ. But how? In this way: All Christian consciences were, they affirm, in a manner virtually included in the conscience of Christ as the plant is included in the seed. But as the branches live the life of the seed, so, too, all Christians are to be said to live the life of Christ. But the life of Christ, according to faith, is divine, and so, too, is the life of Christians. And if this life produced, in the course of ages, both the Church and the sacraments, it is quite right to say that their origin is from Christ and is divine. In the same way they make out that the Holy Scriptures and the dogmas are divine. And in this, the Modernist theology may be said to reach its completion. A slender provision, in truth, but more than enough for the theologian who professes that the conclusions of science, whatever they may be, must always be accepted! No one will have any difficulty in making the application of these theories to the other points with which We propose to deal.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">21. Thus far We have touched upon the origin and nature of faith. But as faith has many branches, and chief among them the Church, dogma, worship, devotions, the Books which we call "sacred," it concerns us to know what the Modernists teach concerning them. To begin with dogma, We have already indicated its origin and nature. Dogma is born of a sort of impulse or necessity by virtue of which the believer elaborates his thought so as to render it clearer to his own conscience and that of others. This elaboration consists entirely in the process of investigating and refining the primitive mental formula, not indeed in itself and according to any logical explanation, but according to circumstances, or vitally as the Modernists somewhat less intelligibly describe it. Hence it happens that around this primitive formula secondary formulas, as We have already indicated, gradually continue to be formed, and these subsequently grouped into one body, or one doctrinal construction and further sanctioned by the public magisterium as responding to the common consciousness, are called dogma. Dogma is to be carefully distinguished from the speculations of theologians which, although not alive with the life of dogma, are not without their utility as serving both to harmonize religion with science and to remove opposition between them, and to illumine and defend religion from without, and it may be even to prepare the matter for future dogma. Concerning worship there would not be much to be said, were it not that under this head are comprised the sacraments, concerning which the Modernist errors are of the most serious character. For them the sacraments are the resultant of a double impulse or need -- for, as we have seen, everything in their system is explained by inner impulses or necessities. The first need is that of giving some sensible manifestation to religion; the second is that of expressing it, which could not be done without some sensible form and consecrating acts, and these are called sacraments. But for the Modernists, sacraments are bare symbols or signs, though not devoid of a certain efficacy -- an efficacy, they tell us, like that of certain phrases vulgarly described as having caught the popular ear, inasmuch as they have the power of putting certain leading ideas into circulation, and of making a marked impression upon the mind. What the phrases are to the ideas, that the sacraments are to the religious sense, that and nothing more. The Modernists would express their mind more clearly were they to affirm that the sacraments are instituted solely to foster the faith but this is condemned by the Council of Trent: If anyone says that these sacraments are instituted solely to foster the faith, let him be anathema.12</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">22. We have already touched upon the nature and origin of the Sacred Books. According to the principles of the Modernists they may be rightly described as a summary of experiences, not indeed of the kind that may now and again come to anybody, but those extraordinary and striking experiences which are the possession of every religion. And this is precisely what they teach about our books of the Old and New Testament. But to suit their own theories they note with remarkable ingenuity that, although experience is something belonging to the present, still it may draw its material in like manner from the past and the future inasmuch as the believer by memory lives the past over again after the manner of the present, and lives the future already by anticipation. This explains how it is that the historical and apocalyptic books are included among the Sacred Writings. God does indeed speak in these books through the medium of the believer, but according to Modernist theology, only by immanence and vital permanence. We may ask, what then becomes of inspiration? Inspiration, they reply, is in nowise distinguished from that impulse which stimulates the believer to reveal the faith that is in him by words of writing, except perhaps by its vehemence. It is something like that which happens in poetical inspiration, of which it has been said: There is a God in us, and when he stirreth he sets us afire. It is in this sense that God is said to be the origin of the inspiration of the Sacred Books. The Modernists moreover affirm concerning this inspiration, that there is nothing in the Sacred Books which is devoid of it. In this respect some might be disposed to consider them as more orthodox than certain writers in recent times who somewhat restrict inspiration, as, for instance, in what have been put forward as so-called tacit citations. But in all this we have mere verbal conjuring. For if we take the Bible, according to the standards of agnosticism, namely, as a human work, made by men for men, albeit the theologian is allowed to proclaim that it is divine by immanence, what room is there left in it for inspiration? The Modernists assert a general inspiration of the Sacred Books, but they admit no inspiration in the Catholic sense.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">23. A wider field for comment is opened when we come to what the Modernist school has imagined to be the nature of the Church. They begin with the supposition that the Church has its birth in a double need; first, the need of the individual believer to communicate his faith to others, especially if he has had some original and special experience, and secondly, when the faith has become common to many, the need of the collectivity to form itself into a society and to guard, promote, and propagate the common good. What, then, is the Church? It is the product of the collective conscience, that is to say, of the association of individual consciences which, by virtue of the principle of vital permanence, depend all on one first believer, who for Catholics is Christ. Now every society needs a directing authority to guide its members towards the common end, to foster prudently the elements of cohesion, which in a religious society are doctrine and worship. Hence the triple authority in the Catholic Church, disciplinary, dogmatic, liturgical. The nature of this authority is to be gathered from its origin, and its rights and duties from its nature. In past times it was a common error that authority came to the Church from without, that is to say directly from God; and it was then rightly held to be autocratic. But this conception has now grown obsolete. For in the same way as the Church is a vital emanation of the collectivity of consciences, so too authority emanates vitally from the Church itself. Authority, therefore, like the Church, has its origin in the religious conscience, and, that being so, is subject to it. Should it disown this dependence it becomes a tyranny. For we are living in an age when the sense of liberty has reached its highest development. In the civil order the public conscience has introduced popular government. Now there is in man only one conscience, just as there is only one life. It is for the ecclesiastical authority, therefore, to adopt a democratic form, unless it wishes to provoke and foment an intestine conflict in the consciences of mankind. The penalty of refusal is disaster. For it is madness to think that the sentiment of liberty, as it now obtains, can recede. Were it forcibly pent up and held in bonds, the more terrible would be its outburst, sweeping away at once both Church and religion. Such is the situation in the minds of the Modernists, and their one great anxiety is, in consequence, to find a way of conciliation between the authority of the Church and the liberty of the believers.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">24. But it is not only within her own household that the Church must come to terms. Besides her relations with those within, she has others with those who are outside. The Church does not occupy the world all by herself; there are other societies in the world., with which she must necessarily have dealings and contact. The rights and duties of the Church towards civil societies must, therefore, be determined, and determined, of course, by her own nature, that, to wit, which the Modernists have already described to us. The rules to be applied in this matter are clearly those which have been laid down for science and faith, though in the latter case the question turned upon the object, while in the present case we have one of ends. In the same way, then, as faith and science are alien to each other by reason of the diversity of their objects, Church and State are strangers by reason of the diversity of their ends, that of the Church being spiritual while that of the State is temporal. Formerly it was possible to subordinate the temporal to the spiritual and to speak of some questions as mixed, conceding to the Church the position of queen and mistress in all such, because the Church was then regarded as having been instituted immediately by God as the author of the supernatural order. But this doctrine is today repudiated alike by philosophers and historians. The state must, therefore, be separated from the Church, and the Catholic from the citizen. Every Catholic, from the fact that he is also a citizen, has the right and the duty to work for the common good in the way he thinks best, without troubling himself about the authority of the Church, without paying any heed to its wishes, its counsels, its orders -- nay, even in spite of its rebukes. For the Church to trace out and prescribe for the citizen any line of action, on any pretext whatsoever, is to be guilty of an abuse of authority, against which one is bound to protest with all one's might. Venerable Brethren, the principles from which these doctrines spring have been solemnly condemned by Our predecessor, Pius VI, in his Apostolic Constitution Auctorem fidei.13</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">25. But it is not enough for the Modernist school that the State should be separated from the Church. For as faith is to be subordinated to science as far as phenomenal elements are concerned, so too in temporal matters the Church must be subject to the State. This, indeed, Modernists may not yet say openly, but they are forced by the logic of their position to admit it. For granted the principle that in temporal matters the State possesses the sole power, it will follow that when the believer, not satisfied with merely internal acts of religion, proceeds to external acts -- such for instance as the reception or administration of the sacraments -- these will fall under the control of the State. What will then become of ecclesiastical authority, which can only be exercised by external acts? Obviously it will be completely under the dominion of the State. It is this inevitable consequence which urges many among liberal Protestants to reject all external worship -- nay, all external religious fellowship, and leads them to advocate what they call individual religion. If the Modernists have not yet openly proceeded so far, they ask the Church in the meanwhile to follow of her own accord in the direction in which they urge her and to adapt herself to the forms of the State. Such are their ideas about disciplinary authority. But much more evil and pernicious are their opinions on doctrinal and dogmatic authority. The following is their conception of the magisterium of the Church: No religious society, they say, can be a real unit unless the religious conscience of its members be one, and also the formula which they adopt. But this double unity requires a kind of common mind whose office is to find and determine the formula that corresponds best with the common conscience; and it must have, moreover, an authority sufficient to enable it to impose on the community the formula which has been decided upon. From the combination and, as it were, fusion of these two elements, the common mind which draws up the formula and the authority which imposes it, arises, according to the Modernists, the notion of the ecclesiastical magisterium. And, as this magisterium springs, in its last analysis, from the individual consciences and possesses its mandate of public utility for their benefit, it necessarily follows that the ecclesiastical magisterium must be dependent upon them, and should therefore be made to bow to the popular ideals. To prevent individual consciences from expressing freely and openly the impulses they feel, to hinder criticism from urging forward dogma in the path of its necessary evolution, is not a legitimate use but an abuse of a power given for the public weal. So too a due method and measure must be observed in the exercise of authority. To condemn and proscribe a work without the knowledge of the author, without hearing his explanations, without discussion, is something approaching to tyranny. And here again it is a question of finding a way of reconciling the full rights of authority on the one hand and those of liberty on the other. In the meantime the proper course for the Catholic will be to proclaim publicly his profound respect for authority, while never ceasing to follow his own judgment. Their general direction for the Church is as follows: that the ecclesiastical authority, since its end is entirely spiritual, should strip itself of that external pomp which adorns it in the eyes of the public. In this, they forget that while religion is for the soul, it is not exclusively for the soul, and that the honor paid to authority is reflected back on Christ who instituted it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26. To conclude this whole question of faith and its various branches, we have still to consider, Venerable Brethren, what the Modernists have to say about the development of the one and the other. First of all they lay down the general principle that in a living religion everything is subject to change, and must in fact be changed. In this way they pass to what is practically their principal doctrine, namely, evolution. To the laws of evolution everything is subject under penalty of death -- dogma, Church, worship, the Books we revere as sacred, even faith itself. The enunciation of this principle will not be a matter of surprise to anyone who bears in mind what the Modernists have had to say about each of these subjects. Having laid down this law of evolution, the Modernists themselves teach us how it operates. And first, with regard to faith. The primitive form of faith, they tell us, was rudimentary and common to all men alike, for it had its origin in human nature and human life. Vital evolution brought with it progress, not by the accretion of new and purely adventitious forms from without, but by an increasing perfusion of the religious sense into the conscience. The progress was of two kinds: negative, by the elimination of all extraneous elements, such, for example, as those derived from the family or nationality; and positive, by that intellectual and moral refining of man, by means of which the idea of the divine became fuller and clearer, while the religious sense became more acute. For the progress of faith the same causes are to be assigned as those which are adduced above to explain its origin. But to them must be added those extraordinary men whom we call prophets -- of whom Christ was the greatest -- both because in their lives and their words there was something mysterious which faith attributed to the divinity, and because it fell to their lot to have new and original experiences fully in harmony with the religious needs of their time. The progress of dogma is due chiefly to the fact that obstacles to the faith have to be surmounted, enemies have to be vanquished, and objections have to be refuted. Add to this a perpetual striving to penetrate ever more profoundly into those things which are contained in the mysteries of faith. Thus, putting aside other examples, it is found to have happened in the case of Christ: in Him that divine something which faith recognized in Him was slowly and gradually expanded in such a way that He was at last held to be God. The chief stimulus of the evolution of worship consists in the need of accommodation to the manners and customs of peoples, as well as the need of availing itself of the value which certain acts have acquired by usage. Finally, evolution in the Church itself is fed by the need of adapting itself to historical conditions and of harmonizing itself with existing forms of society. Such is their view with regard to each. And here, before proceeding further, We wish to draw attention to this whole theory of necessities or needs, for beyond all that we have seen, it is, as it were, the base and foundation of that famous method which they describe as historical.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">27. Although evolution is urged on by needs or necessities, yet, if controlled by these alone, it would easily overstep the boundaries of tradition, and thus, separated from its primitive vital principle, would make for ruin instead of progress. Hence, by those who study more closely the ideas of the Modernists, evolution is described as a resultant from the conflict of two forces, one of them tending towards progress, the other towards conservation. The conserving force exists in the Church and is found in tradition; tradition is represented by religious authority, and this both by right and in fact. By right, for it is in the very nature of authority to protect tradition: and in fact, since authority, raised as it is above the contingencies of life, feels hardly, or not at all, the spurs of progress. The progressive force, on the contrary, which responds to the inner needs, lies in the individual consciences and works in them -- especially in such of them as are in more close and intimate contact with life. Already we observe, Venerable Brethren, the introduction of that most pernicious doctrine which would make of the laity the factor of progress in the Church. Now it is by a species of covenant and compromise between these two forces of conservation and progress, that is to say between authority and individual consciences, that changes and advances take place. The individual consciences, or some of them, act on the collective conscience, which brings pressure to bear on the depositories of authority to make terms and to keep to them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With all this in mind, one understands how it is that the Modernists express astonishment when they are reprimanded or punished. What is imputed to them as a fault they regard as a sacred duty. They understand the needs of consciences better than anyone else, since they come into closer touch with them than does the ecclesiastical authority. Nay, they embody them, so to speak, in themselves. Hence, for them to speak and to write publicly is a bounden duty. Let authority rebuke them if it pleases -- they have their own conscience on their side and an intimate experience which tells them with certainty that what they deserve is not blame but praise. Then they reflect that, after all, there is no progress without a battle and no battle without its victims; and victims they are willing to be like the prophets and Christ Himself. They have no bitterness in their hearts against the authority which uses them roughly, for after all they readily admit that it is only doing its duty as authority. Their sole grief is that it remains deaf to their warnings, for in this way it impedes the progress of souls, but the hour will most surely come when further delay will be impossible, for if the laws of evolution may be checked for a while they cannot be finally evaded. And thus they go their way, reprimands and condemnations not withstanding, masking an incredible audacity under a mock semblance of humility. While they make a pretense of bowing their heads, their minds and hands are more boldly intent than ever on carrying out their purposes. And this policy they follow willingly and wittingly, both because it is part of their system that authority is to be stimulated but not dethroned, and because it is necessary for them to remain within the ranks of the Church in order that they may gradually transform the collective conscience. And in saying this, they fail to perceive that they are avowing that the collective conscience is not with them, and that they have no right to claim to be its interpreters.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">28. It is thus, Venerable Brethren, that for the Modernists, whether as authors or propagandists, there is to be nothing stable, nothing immutable in the Church. Nor, indeed, are they without forerunners in their doctrines, for it was of these that Our predecessor Pius IX wrote: "These enemies of divine revelation extol human progress to the skies, and with rash and sacrilegious daring would have it introduced into the Catholic religion as if this religion were not the work of God but of man, or some kind of philosophical discovery susceptible of perfection by human efforts."14 On the subject of revelation and dogma in particular, the doctrine of the Modernists offers nothing new. We find it condemned in the Syllabus of Pius IX, where it is enunciated in these terms: ''Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to continual and indefinite progress, corresponding with the progress of human reason";15 and condemned still more solemnly in the Vatican Council: ''The doctrine of the faith which God has revealed has not been proposed to human intelligences to be perfected by them as if it were a philosophical system, but as a divine deposit entrusted to the Spouse of Christ to be faithfully guarded and infallibly interpreted. Hence also that sense of the sacred dogmas is to be perpetually retained which our Holy Mother the Church has once declared, nor is this sense ever to be abandoned on plea or pretext of a more profound comprehension of the truth."16 Nor is the development of our knowledge, even concerning the faith, barred by this pronouncement; on the contrary, it is supported and maintained. For the same Council continues: "Let intelligence and science and wisdom, therefore, increase and progress abundantly and vigorously in individuals, and in the mass, in the believer and in the whole Church, throughout the ages and the centuries -- but only in its own kind, that is, according to the same dogma, the same sense, the same acceptation."17</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">29. We have studied the Modernist as philosopher, believer, and theologian. It now remains for us to consider him as historian, critic, apologist, and reformer.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30. Some Modernists, devoted to historical studies, seem to be deeply anxious not to be taken for philosophers. About philosophy they profess to know nothing whatever, and in this they display remarkable astuteness, for they are particularly desirous not to be suspected of any prepossession in favor of philosophical theories which would lay them open to the charge of not being, as they call it, objective. And yet the truth is that their history and their criticism are saturated with their philosophy, and that their historico-critical conclusions are the natural outcome of their philosophical principles. This will be patent to anyone who reflects. Their three first laws are contained in those three principles of their philosophy already dealt with: the principle of agnosticism, the theorem of the transfiguration of things by faith, and that other which may be called the principle of disfiguration. Let us see what consequences flow from each of these. Agnosticism tells us that history, like science, deals entirely with phenomena, and the consequence is that God, and every intervention of God in human affairs, is to be relegated to the domain of faith as belonging to it alone. Wherefore in things where there is combined a double element, the divine and the human, as, for example, in Christ, or the Church, or the sacraments, or the many other objects of the same kind, a division and separation must be made and the human element must he left to history while the divine will he assigned to faith. Hence we have that distinction, so current among the Modernists, between the Christ of history and the Christ of faith; the Church of history and the Church of faith; the sacraments of history and the sacraments of faith, and so in similar matters. Next we find that the human element itself, which the historian has to work on, as it appears in the documents, is to be considered as having been transfigured by faith, that is to say, raised above its historical conditions. It becomes necessary, therefore, to eliminate also the accretions which faith has added, to relegate them to faith itself and to the history of faith. Thus, when treating of Christ, the historian must set aside all that surpasses man in his natural condition, according to what psychology tells us of him, or according to what we gather from the place and period of his existence. Finally, they require, by virtue of the third principle, that even those things which are not outside the sphere of history should pass through the sieve, excluding all and relegating to faith everything which, in their judgment, is not in harmony with what they call the logic of facts or not in character with the persons of whom they are predicated. Thus, they will not allow that Christ ever uttered those things which do not seem to be within the capacity of the multitudes that listened to Him. Hence they delete from His real history and transfer to faith all the allegories found in His discourses. We may peradventure inquire on what principle they make these divisions? Their reply is that they argue from the character of the man, from his condition of life, from his education, from the complexus of the circumstances under which the facts took place; in short, if We understand them aright, on a principle which in the last analysis is merely .subjective. Their method is to put themselves into the position and person of Christ, and then to attribute to Him what they would have done under like circumstances. In this way, absolutely a priori and acting on philosophical principles which they hold but which they profess to ignore, they proclaim that Christ, according to what they call His real history, was not God and never did anything divine, and that as man He did and said only what they, judging from the time in which He lived, consider that He ought to have said or done.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">31. As history takes its conclusions from philosophy, so too criticism takes its conclusions from history. The critic on the data furnished him by the historian, makes two parts of all his documents. Those that remain after the triple elimination above described go to form the real history; the rest is attributed to the history of the faith or, as it is styled, to internal history. For the Modernists distinguish very carefully between these two kinds of history, and it is to be noted that they oppose the history of the faith to real history precisely as real. Thus, as we have already said, we have a twofold Christ: a real Christ, and a Christ, the one of faith, who never really existed; a Christ who has lived at a given time and in a given place, and a Christ who never lived outside the pious meditations of the believer -- the Christ, for instance, whom we find in the Gospel of St. John, which, according to them, is mere meditation from beginning to end.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">32. But the dominion of philosophy over history does not end here. Given that division, of which We have spoken, of the documents into two parts, the philosopher steps in again with his dogma of vital immanence, and shows how everything in the history of the Church is to be explained by vital emanation. And since the cause or condition of every vital emanation whatsoever is to be found in some need or want, it follows that no fact can be regarded as antecedent to the need which produced it -- historically the fact must be posterior to the need. What, then, does the historian do in view of this principle? He goes over his documents again, whether they be contained in the Sacred Books or elsewhere, draws up from them his list of the particular needs of the Church, whether relating to dogma, or liturgy, or other matters which are found in the Church thus related, and then he hands his list over to the critic. The critic takes in hand the documents dealing with the history of faith and distributes them, period by period, so that they correspond exactly with the list of needs, always guided by the principle that the narration must follow the facts, as the facts follow the needs. It may at times happen that some parts of the Sacred Scriptures, such as the Epistles, themselves constitute the fact created by the need. Even so, the rule holds that the age of any document can only be determined by the age in which each need has manifested itself in the Church. Further, a distinction must be made between the beginning of a fact and its development, for what is born in one day requires time for growth. Hence the critic must once more go over his documents, ranged as they are through the different ages, and divide them again into two parts, separating those that regard the origin of the facts from those that deal with their development, and these he must again arrange according to their periods.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">33. Then the philosopher must come in again to enjoin upon the historian the obligation of following in all his studies the precepts and laws of evolution. It is next for the historian to scrutinize his documents once more, to examine carefully the circumstances and conditions affecting the Church during the different periods, the conserving force she has put forth, the needs both internal and external that have stimulated her to progress, the obstacles she has had to encounter, in a word, everything that helps to determine the manner in which the laws of evolution have been fulfilled in her. This done, he finishes his work by drawing up a history of the development in its broad lines. The critic follows and fits in the rest of the documents. He sets himself to write. The history is finished. Now We ask here: Who is the author of this history? The historian? The critic? Assuredly neither of these but the philosopher. From beginning to end everything in it is a priori, and an apriorism that reeks of heresy. These men are certainly to be pitied, of whom the Apostle might well say: "They became vain in their thoughts...professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.''18 At the same time, they excite resentment when they accuse the Church of arranging and confusing the texts after her own fashion, and for the needs of her cause. In this they are accusing the Church of something for which their own conscience plainly reproaches them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">34. The result of this dismembering of the records, and this partition of them throughout the centuries is naturally that the Scriptures can no longer be attributed to the authors whose names they bear. The Modernists have no hesitation in affirming generally that these books, and especially the Pentateuch and the first three Gospels, have been gradually formed from a primitive brief narration, by additions, by interpolations of theological or allegorical interpretations, or parts introduced only for the purpose of joining different passages together. This means, to put it briefly and clearly, that in the Sacred Books we must admit a vital evolution, springing from and corresponding with the evolution of faith. The traces of this evolution, they tell us, are so visible in the books that one might almost write a history of it. Indeed, this history they actually do write, and with such an easy assurance that one might believe them to have seen with their own eyes the writers at work through the ages amplifying the Sacred Books. To aid them in this they call to their assistance that branch of criticism which they call textual, and labor to show that such a fact or such a phrase is not in its right place, adducing other arguments of the same kind. They seem, in fact, to have constructed for themselves certain types of narration and discourses, upon which they base their assured verdict as to whether a thing is or is not out of place. Let him who can judge how far they are qualified in this way to make such distinctions. To hear them descant of their works on the Sacred Books, in which they have been able to discover so much that is defective, one would imagine that before them nobody ever even turned over the pages of Scripture. The truth is that a whole multitude of Doctors, far superior to them in genius, in erudition, in sanctity, have sifted the Sacred Books in every way, and so far from finding in them anything blameworthy have thanked God more and more heartily the more deeply they have gone into them, for His divine bounty in having vouchsafed to speak thus to men. Unfortunately. these great Doctors did not enjoy the same aids to study that are possessed by the Modernists for they did not have for their rule and guide a philosophy borrowed from the negation of God, and a criterion which consists of themselves .</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We believe, then, that We have set forth with sufficient clearness the historical method of the Modernists. The philosopher leads the way, the historian follows, and then in due order come the internal and textual critics. And since it is characteristic of the primary cause to communicate its virtue to causes which are secondary, it is quite clear that the criticism with which We are concerned is not any kind of criticism, but that which is rightly called agnostic, immanentist, and evolutionist criticism. Hence anyone who adopts it and employs it makes profession thereby of the errors contained in it, and places himself in opposition to Catholic teaching. This being so, it is much a matter for surprise that it should have found acceptance to such an extent among certain Catholics. Two causes may be assigned for this: first, the close alliance which the historians and critics of this school have formed among themselves independent of all differences of nationality or religion; second, their boundless effrontery by which, if one then makes any utterance, the others applaud him in chorus, proclaiming that science has made another step forward, while if an outsider should desire to inspect the new discovery for himself, they form a coalition against him. He who denies it is decried as one who is ignorant, while he who embraces and defends it has all their praise. In this way they entrap not a few, who, did they but realize what they are doing, would shrink back with horror. The domineering overbearance of those who teach the errors, and the thoughtless compliance of the more shallow minds who assent to them, create a corrupted atmosphere which penetrates everywhere, and carries infection with it. But let Us pass to the apologist.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">35. The Modernist apologist depends in two ways on the philosopher. First, indirectly, inasmuch as his subject-matter is history -- history dictated, as we have seen, by the philosopher; and, secondly, directly, inasmuch as he takes both his doctrines and his conclusions from the philosopher. Hence that common axiom of the Modernist school that in the new apologetics controversies in religion must be determined by psychological and historical research. The Modernist apologists, then, enter the arena, proclaiming to the rationalists that, though they are defending religion, they have no intention of employing the data of the sacred books or the histories in current use in the Church, and written upon the old lines, but real history composed on modern principles and according to the modern method. In all this they assert that they are not using an argumentum ad hominem, because they are really of the opinion that the truth is to be found only in this kind of history. They feel that it is not necessary for them to make profession of their own sincerity in their writings. They are already known to and praised by the rationalists as fighting under the same banner, and they not only plume themselves on these encomiums, which would only provoke disgust in a real Catholic, but use them as a counter-compensation to the reprimands of the Church. Let us see how the Modernist conducts his apologetics. The aim he sets before himself is to make one who is still without faith attain that experience of the Catholic religion which, according to the system, is the sole basis of faith. There are two ways open to him, the objective and the subjective. The first of them starts from agnosticism. It tends to show that religion, and especially the Catholic religion, is endowed with such vitality as to compel every psychologist and historian of good faith to recognize that its history hides some element of the unknown. To this end it is necessary to prove that the Catholic religion, as it exists today, is that which was founded by Jesus Christ; that is to say, that it is nothing else than the progressive development of the germ which He brought into the world. Hence it is imperative first of all to establish what this germ was, and this the Modernist claims to he able to do by the following formula: Christ announced the coming of the kingdom of God, which was to be realized within a brief lapse of time and of which He was to become the Messias, the divinely-given founder and ruler. Then it must be shown how this germ, always immanent and permanent in the Catholic religion, has gone on slowly developing in the course of history, adapting itself successively to the different circumstances through which it has passed, borrowing from them by vital assimilation all the doctrinal, cultural, ecclesiastical forms that served its purpose; whilst, on the other hand, it surmounted all obstacles, vanquished all enemies, and survived all assaults and all combats. Anyone who well and duly considers this mass of obstacles, adversaries, attacks, combats, and the vitality and fecundity which the Church has shown throughout them all, must admit that if the laws of evolution are visible in her life they fail to explain the whole of her history -- the unknown rises forth from it and presents itself before Us. Thus do they argue, not perceiving that their determination of the primitive germ is only an a priori assumption of agnostic and evolutionist philosophy, and that the germ itself has been gratuitously defined so that it may fit in with their contention.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">36. But while they endeavor by this line of reasoning to prove and plead for the Catholic religion, these new apologists are more than willing to grant and to recognize that there are in it many things which are repulsive. Nay, they admit openly, and with ill-concealed satisfaction, that they have found that even its dogma is not exempt from errors and contradictions. They add also that this is not only excusable but -- curiously enough -- that it is even right and proper. In the Sacred Books there are many passages referring to science or history where, according to them, manifest errors are to he found. But, they say, the subject of these books is not science or history, but only religion and morals. In them history and science serve only as a species of covering to enable the religious and moral experiences wrapped Up in them to penetrate more readily among the masses. The masses understood science and history as they are expressed in these books, and it is clear that the expression of science and history in a more perfect form would have proved not so much a help as a hindrance. Moreover, they add, the Sacred Books, being essentially religious, are necessarily quick with life. Now life has its own truths and its own logic -- quite different from rational truth and rational logic, belonging as they do to a different order, viz., truth of adaptation and of proportion both with what they call the medium in which it lives and with the end for which it lives. Finally, the Modernists, losing all sense of control, go so far as to proclaim as true and legitimate whatever is explained by life.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We, Venerable Brethren, for whom there is but one and only one truth, and who hold that the Sacred Books, "written under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, have God for their author''19 declare that this is equivalent to attributing to God Himself the lie of utility or officious lie, and We say with St. Augustine: "In an authority so high, admit but one officious lie, and there will not remain a single passage of those apparently difficult to practice or to believe, which on the same most pernicious rule may not be explained as a lie uttered by the author willfully and to serve a purpose."20 And thus it will come about, the holy Doctor continues, that "everybody will believe and refuse to believe what he likes or dislikes in them," namely, the Scriptures. But the Modernists pursue their way eagerly. They grant also that certain arguments adduced in the Sacred Books in proof of a given doctrine, like those, for example, which are based on the prophecies, have no rational foundation to rest on. But they defend even these as artifices of preaching, which are justified by life. More than that. They are ready to admit, nay, to proclaim that Christ Himself manifestly erred in determining the time when the coming of the Kingdom of God was to take place; and they tell us that we must not be surprised at this since even He Himself was subject to the laws of life! After this what is to become of the dogmas of the Church? The dogmas bristle with flagrant contradictions, but what does it matter since, apart from the fact that vital logic accepts them, they are not repugnant to symbolical truth. Are we not dealing with the infinite, and has not the infinite an infinite variety of aspects? In short, to maintain and defend these theories they do not hesitate to declare that the noblest homage that can be paid to the Infinite is to make it the object of contradictory statements! But when they justify even contradictions, what is it that they will refuse to justify?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">37. But it is not solely by objective arguments that the non-believer may be disposed to faith. There are also those that are subjective, and for this purpose the modernist apologists return to the doctrine of immanence. They endeavor, in fact, to persuade their non-believer that down in the very depths of his nature and his life lie hidden the need and the desire for some religion, and this not a religion of any kind, but the specific religion known as Catholicism, which, they say, is absolutely postulated by the perfect development of life. And here again We have grave reason to complain that there are Catholics who, while rejecting immanence as a doctrine, employ it as a method of apologetics, and who do this so imprudently that they seem to admit, not merely a capacity and a suitability for the supernatural, such as has at all times been emphasized, within due limits, by Catholic apologists, but that there is in human nature a true and rigorous need for the supernatural order. Truth to tell, it is only the moderate Modernists who make this appeal to an exigency for the Catholic religion. As for the others, who might he called integralists, they would show to the non-believer, as hidden in his being, the very germ which Christ Himself had in His consciousness, and which He transmitted to mankind. Such, Venerable Brethren, is a summary description of the apologetic method of the Modernists, in perfect harmony with their doctrines -- methods and doctrines replete with errors, made not for edification but for destruction, not for the making of Catholics but for the seduction of those who are Catholics into heresy; and tending to the utter subversion of all religion.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">38. It remains for Us now to say a few words about the Modernist as reformer. From all that has preceded, it is abundantly clear how great and how eager is the passion of such men for innovation. In all Catholicism there is absolutely nothing on which it does not fasten. They wish philosophy to be reformed, especially in the ecclesiastical seminaries. They wish the scholastic philosophy to be relegated to the history of philosophy and to be classed among absolute systems, and the young men to be taught modern philosophy which alone is true and suited to the times in which we live. They desire the reform of theology: rational theology is to have modern philosophy for its foundation, and positive theology is to be founded on the history of dogma. As for history, it must be written and taught only according to their methods and modern principles. Dogmas and their evolution, they affirm, are to be harmonized with science and history. In the Catechism no dogmas are to be inserted except those that have been reformed and are within the capacity of the people. Regarding worship, they say, the number of external devotions is to he reduced, and steps must be taken to prevent their further increase, though, indeed, some of the admirers of symbolism are disposed to be more indulgent on this head. They cry out that ecclesiastical government requires to be reformed in all its branches, but especially in its disciplinary and dogmatic departments They insist that both outwardly and inwardly it must be brought into harmony with the modern conscience which now wholly tends towards democracy; a share in ecclesiastical government should therefore be given to the lower ranks of the clergy and even to the laity and authority which is too much concentrated should be decentralized The Roman Congregations and especially the index and the Holy Office, must be likewise modified The ecclesiastical authority must alter its line of conduct in the social and political world; while keeping outside political organizations it must adapt itself to them in order to penetrate them with its spirit. With regard to morals, they adopt the principle of the Americanists, that the active virtues are more important than the passive, and are to be more encouraged in practice. They ask that the clergy should return to their primitive humility and poverty, and that in their ideas and action they should admit the principles of Modernism; and there are some who, gladly listening to the teaching of their Protestant masters, would desire the suppression of the celibacy of the clergy. What is there left in the Church which is not to be reformed by them and according to their principles?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">39. It may, perhaps, seem to some, Venerable Brethren, that We have dealt at too great length on this exposition of the doctrines of the Modernists. But it was necessary that We should do so, both in order to meet their customary charge that We do not understand their ideas, and to show that their system does not consist in scattered and unconnected theories, but, as it were, in a closely connected whole, so that it is not possible to admit one without admitting all. For this reason, too, We have had to give to this exposition a somewhat didactic form, and not to shrink from employing certain unwonted terms which the Modernists have brought into use. And now with Our eyes fixed upon the whole system, no one will be surprised that We should define it to be the synthesis of all heresies. Undoubtedly, were anyone to attempt the task of collecting together all the errors that have been broached against the faith and to concentrate into one the sap and substance of them all, he could not succeed in doing so better than the Modernists have done. Nay, they have gone farther than this, for, as We have already intimated, their system means the destruction not of the Catholic religion alone, but of all religion. Hence the rationalists are not wanting in their applause, and the most frank and sincere among them congratulate themselves on having found in the Modernists the most valuable of all allies.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Let us turn for a moment, Venerable Brethren, to that most disastrous doctrine of agnosticism. By it every avenue to God on the side of the intellect is barred to man, while a better way is supposed to be opened from the side of a certain sense of the soul and action. But who does not see how mistaken is such a contention? For the sense of the soul is the response to the action of the thing which the intellect or the outward senses set before it. Take away the intelligence, and man, already inclined to follow the senses, becomes their slave. Doubly mistaken, from another point of view, for all these fantasies of the religious sense will never be able to destroy common sense, and common sense tells us that emotion and everything that leads the heart captive proves a hindrance instead of a help to the discovery of truth. We speak of truth in itself -- for that other purely subjective truth, the fruit of the internal sense and action, if it serves its purpose for the play of words, is of no benefit to the man who wants above all things to know whether outside himself there is a God into whose hands he is one day to fall. True, the Modernists call in experience to eke out their system, but what does this experience add to that sense of the soul? Absolutely nothing beyond a certain intensity and a proportionate deepening of the conviction of the reality of the object. But these two will never make the sense of the soul into anything but sense, nor will they alter its nature, which is liable to deception when the intelligence is not there to guide it; on the contrary, they but confirm and strengthen this nature, for the more intense the sense is the more it is really sense. And as we are here dealing with religious sense and the experience involved in it, it is known to you, Venerable Brethren, how necessary in such a matter is prudence, and the learning by which prudence is guided. You know it from your own dealings with souls, and especially with souls in whom sentiment predominates; you know it also from your reading of works of ascetical theology -- works for which the Modernists have but little esteem, but which testify to a science and a solidity far greater than theirs, and to a refinement and subtlety of observation far beyond any which the Modernists take credit to themselves for possessing. It seems to Us nothing short of madness, or at the least consummate temerity to accept for true, and without investigation, these incomplete experiences which are the vaunt of the Modernist. Let Us for a moment put the question: If experiences have so much force and value in their estimation, why do they not attach equal weight to the experience that so many thousands of Catholics have that the Modernists are on the wrong path? Is it that the Catholic experiences are the only ones which are false and deceptive? The vast majority of mankind holds and always will hold firmly that sense and experience alone, when not enlightened and guided by reason, cannot reach to the knowledge of God. What, then, remains but atheism and the absence of all religion? Certainly it is not the doctrine of .symbolism that will save us from this. For if all the intellectual elements, as they call them, of religion are nothing more than mere symbols of God, will not the very name of God or of divine personality be also a symbol, and if this be admitted, the personality of God will become a matter of doubt and the gate will be opened to pantheism? And to pantheism pure and simple that other doctrine of the divine immanence leads directly. For this is the question which We ask: Does or does not this immanence leave God distinct from man? If it does, in what does it differ from the Catholic doctrine, and why does it reject the doctrine of external revelation? If it does not, it is pantheism. Now the doctrine of immanence in the Modernist acceptation holds and professes that every phenomenon of conscience proceeds from man as man. The rigorous conclusion from this is the identity of man with God, which means pantheism. The distinction which Modernists make between science and faith leads to the same conclusion. The object of science, they say, is the reality of the knowable; the object of faith, on the contrary, is the reality of the unknowable. Now, what makes the unknowable unknowable is the fact that there is no proportion between its object and the intellect -- a defect of proportion which nothing whatever, even in the doctrine of the Modernist, can suppress. Hence the unknowable remains and will eternally remain unknowable to the believer as well as to the philosopher. Therefore if any religion at all is possible, it can only be the religion of an unknowable reality. And why this might not be that soul of the universe, of which certain rationalists speak, is something which certainly does not seem to Us apparent. These reasons suffice to show superabundantly by how many roads Modernism leads to atheism and to the annihilation of all religion. The error of Protestantism made the first step on this path; that of Modernism makes the second; atheism makes the next.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">40. To penetrate still deeper into the meaning of Modernism and to find a suitable remedy for so deep a sore, it behooves Us, Venerable Brethren, to investigate the causes which have engendered it and which foster its growth. That the proximate and immediate cause consists in an error of the mind cannot be open to doubt. We recognize that the remote causes may be reduced to two: curiosity and pride. Curiosity by itself, if not prudently regulated, suffices to account for all errors. Such is the opinion of Our predecessor, Gregory XVI, who wrote: "A lamentable spectacle is that presented by the aberrations of human reason when it yields to the spirit of novelty, when against the warning of the Apostle it seeks to know beyond what it is meant to know, and when relying too much on itself it thinks it can find the truth outside the Catholic Church wherein truth is found without the slightest shadow of error."21</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But it is pride which exercises an incomparably greater sway over the soul to blind it and lead it into error, and pride sits in Modernism as in its own house, finding sustenance everywhere in its doctrines and lurking in its every aspect. It is pride which fills Modernists with that self-assurance by which they consider themselves and pose as the rule for all. It is pride which puffs them up with that vainglory which allows them to regard themselves as the sole possessors of knowledge, and makes them say, elated and inflated with presumption, "We are not as the rest of men," and which, lest they should seem as other men, leads them to embrace and to devise novelties even of the most absurd kind. It is pride which rouses in them the spirit of disobedience and causes them to demand a compromise between authority and liberty. It is owing to their pride that they seek to be the reformers of others while they forget to reform themselves, and that they are found to be utterly wanting in respect for authority, even for the supreme authority. Truly there is no road which leads so directly and so quickly to Modernism as pride. When a Catholic layman or a priest forgets the precept of the Christian life which obliges us to renounce ourselves if we would follow Christ and neglects to tear pride from his heart, then it is he who most of all is a fully ripe subject for the errors of Modernism. For this reason, Venerable Brethren, it will be your first duty to resist such victims of pride, to employ them only in the lowest and obscurest offices. The higher they try to rise, the lower let them be placed, so that the lowliness of their position may limit their power of causing damage. Examine most carefully your young clerics by yourselves and by the directors of your seminaries, and when you find the spirit of pride among them reject them without compunction from the priesthood. Would to God that this had always been done with the vigilance and constancy which were required!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">41. If we pass on from the moral to the intellectual causes of Modernism, the first and the chief which presents itself is ignorance. Yes, these very Modernists who seek to be esteemed as Doctors of the Church, who speak so loftily of modern philosophy and show such contempt for scholasticism, have embraced the one with all its false glamour, precisely because their ignorance of the other has left them without the means of being able to recognize confusion of thought and to refute sophistry. Their whole system, containing as it does errors so many and so great, has been born of the union between faith and false philosophy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">42. Would that they had but displayed less zeal and energy in propagating it! But such is their activity and such their unwearying labor on behalf of their cause, that one cannot but be pained to see them waste such energy in endeavoring to ruin the Church when they might have been of such service to her had their efforts been better directed. Their artifices to delude men's minds are of two kinds, the first to remove obstacles from their path, the second to devise and apply actively and patiently every resource that can serve their purpose. They recognize that the three chief difficulties which stand in their way are the scholastic method of philosophy, the authority and tradition of the Fathers, and the magisterium of the Church, and on these they wage unrelenting war. Against scholastic philosophy and theology they use the weapons of ridicule and contempt. Whether it is ignorance or fear, or both, that inspires this conduct in them, certain it is that the passion for novelty is always united in them with hatred of scholasticism, and there is no surer sign that a man is tending to Modernism than when he begins to show his dislike for the scholastic method. Let the Modernists and their admirers remember the proposition condemned by Pius IX: "The method and principles which have served the ancient doctors of scholasticism when treating of theology no longer correspond with the exigencies of our time or the progress of science."22 They exercise all their ingenuity in an effort to weaken the force and falsify the character of tradition, so as to rob it of all its weight and authority. But for Catholics nothing will remove the authority of the second Council of Nicea, where it condemns those "who dare, after the impious fashion of heretics, to deride the ecclesiastical traditions, to invent novelties of some kind...or endeavor by malice or craft to overthrow any one of the legitimate traditions of the Catholic Church"; nor that of the declaration of the fourth Council of Constantinople: "We therefore profess to preserve and guard the rules bequeathed to the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, by the Holy and most illustrious Apostles, by the orthodox Councils, both general and local, and by everyone of those divine interpreters, the Fathers and Doctors of the Church." Wherefore the Roman Pontiffs, Pius IV and Pius IX, ordered the insertion in the profession of faith of the following declaration: "I most firmly admit and embrace the apostolic and ecclesiastical traditions and other observances and constitutions of the Church.''</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Modernists pass judgment on the holy Fathers of the Church even as they do upon tradition. With consummate temerity they assure the public that the Fathers, while personally most worthy of all veneration, were entirely ignorant of history and criticism, for which they are only excusable on account of the time in which they lived. Finally, the Modernists try in every way to diminish and weaken the authority of the ecclesiastical magisterium itself by sacrilegiously falsifying its origin, character, and rights, and by freely repeating the calumnies of its adversaries. To the entire band of Modernists may be applied those words which Our predecessor sorrowfully wrote: "To bring contempt and odium on the mystic Spouse of Christ, who is the true light, the children of darkness have been wont to cast in her face before the world a stupid calumny, and perverting the meaning and force of things and words, to depict her as the friend of darkness and ignorance, and the enemy of light, science, and progress.''23 This being so, Venerable Brethren, there is little reason to wonder that the Modernists vent all their bitterness and hatred on Catholics who zealously fight the battles of the Church. There is no species of insult which they do not heap upon them, but their usual course is to charge them with ignorance or obstinacy. When an adversary rises up against them with an erudition and force that renders them redoubtable, they seek to make a conspiracy of silence around him to nullify the effects of his attack. This policy towards Catholics is the more invidious in that they belaud with admiration which knows no bounds the writers who range themselves on their side, hailing their works, exuding novelty in every page, with a chorus of applause. For them the scholarship of a writer is in direct proportion to the recklessness of his attacks on antiquity, and of his efforts to undermine tradition and the ecclesiastical magisterium. When one of their number falls under the condemnations of the Church the rest of them, to the disgust of good Catholics, gather round him, loudly and publicly applaud him, and hold him up in veneration as almost a martyr for truth. The young, excited and confused by all this clamor of praise and abuse, some of them afraid of being branded as ignorant, others ambitious to rank among the learned, and both classes goaded internally by curiosity and pride, not infrequently surrender and give themselves up to Modernism.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">43. And here we have already some of the artifices employed by Modernists to exploit their wares. What efforts do they not make to win new recruits! They seize upon professorships in the seminaries and universities, and gradually make of them chairs of pestilence. In sermons from the pulpit they disseminate their doctrines, although possibly in utterances which are veiled. In congresses they express their teachings more openly. In their social gatherings they introduce them and commend them to others. Under their own names and under pseudonyms they publish numbers of books, newspapers, reviews, and sometimes one and the same writer adopts a variety of pseudonyms to trap the incautious reader into believing in a multitude of Modernist writers. In short, with feverish activity they leave nothing untried in act, speech, and writing. And with what result? We have to deplore the spectacle of many young men, once full of promise and capable of rendering great services to the Church, now gone astray. It is also a subject of grief to Us that many others who, while they certainly do not go so far as the former, have yet been so infected by breathing a poisoned atmosphere, as to think, speak, and write with a degree of laxity which ill becomes a Catholic. They are to be found among the laity, and in the ranks of the clergy, and they are not wanting even in the last place where one might expect to meet them, in religious communities If they treat of biblical questions, it is upon Modernist principles; if they write history, they carefully, and with ill-concealed satisfaction, drag into the light, on the plea of telling the whole truth, everything that appears to cast a stain upon the Church. Under the sway of certain a priori conceptions they destroy as far as they can the pious traditions of the people, and bring into disrespect certain relics highly venerable from their antiquity. They are possessed by the empty desire of having their names upon the lips of the public, and they know they would never succeed in this were they to say only what has always been said by all men. Meanwhile it may be that they have persuaded themselves that in all this they are really serving God and the Church. In reality they only offend both, less perhaps by their works in themselves than by the spirit in which they write, and by the encouragement they thus give to the aims of the Modernists.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">44. Against this host of grave errors, and its secret and open advance, Our predecessor Leo Xlll, of happy memory, worked strenuously, both in his words and his acts, especially as regards the study of the Bible. But, as we have seen, the Modernists are not easily deterred by such weapons. With an affectation of great submission and respect, they proceeded to twist the words of the Pontiff to their own sense, while they described his action as directed against others than themselves. Thus the evil has gone on increasing from day to day. We, therefore, Venerable Brethren, have decided to suffer no longer delay, and to adopt measures which are more efficacious. We exhort and conjure you to see to it that in this most grave matter no one shall be in a position to say that you have been in the slightest degree wanting in vigilance, zeal, or firmness. And what We ask of you and expect of you, We ask and expect also of all other pastors of souls, of all educators and professors of clerics, and in a very special way of the superiors of religious communities.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">45. In the first place, with regard to studies, We will and strictly ordain that scholastic philosophy be made the basis of the sacred sciences. It goes without saying that "if anything is met with among the scholastic doctors which may be regarded as something investigated with an excess of subtlety, or taught without sufficient consideration; anything which is not in keeping with the certain results of later times; anything, in short, which is altogether destitute of probability, We have no desire whatever to propose it for the imitation of present generations."24 And let it be clearly understood above all things that when We prescribe scholastic philosophy We understand chiefly that which the Angelic Doctor has bequeathed to us, and We, therefore, declare that all the ordinances of Our predecessor on this subject continue fully in force, and, as far as may be necessary, We do decree anew, and confirm, and order that they shall be strictly observed by all. In seminaries where they have been neglected it will be for the Bishops to exact and require their observance in the future; and let this apply also to the superiors of religious orders. Further, We admonish professors to bear well in mind that they cannot set aside St. Thomas, especially in metaphysical questions, without grave disadvantage.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">46. On this philosophical foundation the theological edifice is to be carefully raised. Promote the study of theology, Venerable Brethren, by all means in your power, so that your clerics on leaving the seminaries may carry with them a deep admiration and love of it, and always find in it a source of delight. For "in the vast and varied abundance of studies opening before the mind desirous of truth, it is known to everyone that theology occupies such a commanding place, that according to an ancient adage of the wise it is the duty of the other arts and sciences to serve it, and to wait upon it after the manner of handmaidens."25 We will add that We deem worthy of praise those who with full respect for tradition, the Fathers, and the ecclesiastical magisterium, endeavor, with well-balanced judgment, and guided by Catholic principles (which is not always the case), to illustrate positive theology by throwing upon it the light of true history. It is certainly necessary that positive theology should be held in greater appreciation than it has been in the past, but this must be done without detriment to scholastic theology; and those are to be disapproved as Modernists who exalt positive theology in such a way as to seem to despise the scholastic.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">47. With regard to secular studies, let it suffice to recall here what our predecessor has admirably said: ''Apply yourselves energetically to the study of natural sciences: in which department the things that have been so brilliantly discovered, and so usefully applied, to the admiration of the present age, will be the object of praise and commendation to those who come after us."26 But this is to be done without interfering with sacred studies, as Our same predecessor prescribed in these most weighty words: "If you carefully search for the cause of those errors you will find that it lies in the fact that in these days when the natural sciences absorb so much study, the more severe and lofty studies have been proportionately neglected -- some of them have almost passed into oblivion, some of them are pursued in a half-hearted or superficial way, and, sad to say, now that the splendor of the former estate is dimmed, they have been disfigured by perverse doctrines and monstrous errors."27 We ordain, therefore, that the study of natural sciences in the seminaries be carried out according to this law.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">48. All these prescriptions, both Our own and those of Our predecessor, are to be kept in view whenever there is question of choosing directors and professors for seminaries and Catholic Universities. Anyone who in any way is found to be tainted with Modernism is to be excluded without compunction from these offices, whether of government or of teaching, and those who already occupy them are to be removed. The same policy is to be adopted towards those who openly or secretly lend countenance to Modernism either by extolling the Modernists and excusing their culpable conduct, or by carping at scholasticism, and the Fathers, and the magisterium of the Church, or by refusing obedience to ecclesiastical authority in any of its depositories; and towards those who show a love of novelty in history, archaeology, biblical exegesis; and finally towards those who neglect the sacred sciences or appear to prefer to them the secular. In all this question of studies, Venerable Brethren, you cannot be too watchful or too constant, but most of all in the choice of professors, for as a rule the students are modeled after the pattern of their masters. Strong in the consciousness of your duty, act always in this matter with prudence and with vigor.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">49. Equal diligence and severity are to be used in examining and selecting candidates for Holy Orders. Far, far from the clergy be the love of novelty! God hateth the proud and the obstinate mind. For the future the doctorate of theology and canon law must never be conferred on anyone who has not first of all made the regular course of scholastic philosophy; if conferred, it shall be held as null and void. The rules laid down in 1896 by the Sacred Congregation of Bishops and Regulars for the clerics, both secular and regular, of Italy, concerning the frequenting of the Universities, We now decree to be extended to all nation.28 Clerics and priests inscribed in a Catholic Institute or University must not in the future follow in civil Universities those courses for which there are chairs in the Catholic Institutes to which they belong. If this has been permitted anywhere in the past, We ordain that it be not allowed for the future. Let the Bishops who form the Governing Board of such Catholic Institutes or Universities watch with all care that these Our commands be constantly observed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">50. It is also the duty of the Bishops to prevent writings of Modernists, or whatever savors of Modernism or promotes it, from being read when they have been published, and to hinder their publication when they have not. No books or papers or periodicals whatever of this kind are to be permitted to seminarists or university students. The injury to them would be not less than that which is caused by immoral reading -- nay, it would be greater, for such writings poison Christian life at its very fount. The same decision is to be taken concerning the writings of some Catholics, who, though not evilly disposed themselves, are ill-instructed in theological studies and imbued with modern philosophy, and strive to make this harmonize with the faith, and, as they say, to turn it to the profit of the faith. The name and reputation of these authors cause them to read without suspicion, and they are, therefore, all the more dangerous in gradually preparing the way for Modernism.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">51. To add some more general directions, Venerable Brethren, in a matter of such moment, We order that you do everything in your power to drive out of your dioceses, even by solemn interdict, any pernicious books that may be in circulation there. The Holy See neglects no means to remove writings of this kind, but their number has now grown to such an extent that it is hardly possible to subject them all to censure. Hence it happens sometimes that the remedy arrives too late, for the disease has taken root during the delay. We will, therefore, that the Bishops putting aside all fear and the prudence of the flesh, despising the clamor of evil men, shall, gently, by all means, but firmly, do each his own part in this work, remembering the injunctions of Leo XIII in the Apostolic Constitution Officiorum: "Let the Ordinaries, acting in this also as Delegates of the Apostolic See, exert themselves to proscribe and to put out of reach of the faithful injurious books or other writings printed or circulated in their dioceses."29 In this passage the Bishops, it is true, receive an authorization, but they have also a charge laid upon them. Let no Bishop think that he fulfills his duty by denouncing to Us one or two books, while a great many others of the same kind are being published and circulated. Nor are you to be deterred by the fact that a book has obtained elsewhere the permission which is commonly called the Imprimatur, both because this may be merely simulated, and because it may have been granted through carelessness or too much indulgence or excessive trust placed in the author, which last has perhaps sometimes happened in the religious orders. Besides, just as the same food does not agree with everyone, it may happen that a book, harmless in one place, may, on account of the different circumstances, be hurtful in another. Should a Bishop, therefore, after having taken the advice of prudent persons, deem it right to condemn any of such books in his diocese, We give him ample faculty for the purpose and We lay upon him the obligation of doing so. Let all this be done in a fitting manner, and in certain cases it will suffice to restrict the prohibition to the clergy; but in all cases it will be obligatory on Catholic booksellers not to put on sale books condemned by the Bishop. And while We are treating of this subject, We wish the Bishops to see to it that booksellers do not, through desire for gain, engage in evil trade. It is certain that in the catalogs of some of them the books of the Modernists are not infrequently announced with no small praise. If they refuse obedience, let the Bishops, after due admonition, have no hesitation in depriving them of the title of Catholic booksellers. This applies, and with still more reason, to those who have the title of Episcopal booksellers. If they have that of Pontifical booksellers, let them be denounced to the Apostolic See. Finally, We remind all of Article XXVI of the above-mentioned Constitution Officiorum: "All those who have obtained an apostolic faculty to read and keep forbidden books, are not thereby authorized to read and keep books and periodicals forbidden by the local Ordinaries unless the apostolic faculty expressly concedes permission to read and keep books condemned by anyone whomsoever."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">52. It is not enough to hinder the reading and the sale of bad books -- it is also necessary to prevent them from being published. Hence, let the Bishops use the utmost strictness in granting permission to print. Under the rules of the Constitution Officiorum, many publications require the authorization of the Ordinary, and in certain dioceses (since the Bishop cannot personally make himself acquainted with them all) it has been the custom to have a suitable number of official censors for the examination of writings. We have the highest esteem for this institution of censors, and We not only exhort, but We order that it be extended to all dioceses. In all episcopal Curias, therefore, let censors be appointed for the revision of works intended for publication, and let the censors be chosen from both ranks of the clergy -- secular and regular -- men whose age, knowledge, and prudence will enable them to follow the safe and golden means in their judgments. It shall be their office to examine everything which requires permission for publication according to Articles XLI and XLII of the above-mentioned Constitution. The censor shall give his verdict in writing. If it be favorable, the Bishop will give the permission for publication by the word Imprimatur, which must be preceded by the Nihil obstat and the name of the censor. In the Roman Curia official censors shall be appointed in the same way as elsewhere, and the duty of nominating them shall appertain to the Master of the Sacred Palace, after they have been proposed to the Cardinal Vicar and have been approved and accepted by the Sovereign Pontiff. It will also be the office of the Master of the Sacred Palace to select the censor for each writing. Permission for publication will be granted by him as well as by the Cardinal Vicar or his Vicegerent, and this permission, as above prescribed, must he preceded by the Nihil obstat and the name of the censor. Only on a very rare and exceptional occasion, and on the prudent decision of the Bishop, shall it be possible to omit mention of the censor. The name of the censor shall never be made known to the authors until he shall have given a favorable decision, so that he may not have to suffer inconvenience either while he is engaged in the examination of a writing or in case he should withhold his approval. Censors shall never be chosen from the religious orders until the opinion of the Provincial, or in Rome, of the General, has been privately obtained, and the Provincial or the General must give a conscientious account of the character, knowledge, and orthodoxy of the candidate. We admonish religious superiors of their most solemn duty never to allow anything to be published by any of their subjects without permission from themselves and from the Ordinary. Finally, We affirm and declare that the title of censor with which a person may be honored has no value whatever, and can never be adduced to give credit to the private opinions of him who holds it.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">53. Having said this much in general, We now ordain in particular a more careful observance of Article XLII of the above-mentioned Constitution Officiorum, according to which "it is forbidden to secular priests, without the previous consent of the Ordinary, to undertake the editorship of papers or periodicals." This permission shall be withdrawn from any priest who makes a wrong use of it after having received an admonition thereupon. With regard to priests who are correspondents or collaborators of periodicals, as it happens not infrequently that they contribute matter infected with Modernism to their papers or periodicals, let the Bishops see to it that they do not offend in this manner; and if they do, let them warn the offenders and prevent them from writing. We solemnly charge in like manner the superiors of religious orders that they fulfill the same duty, and should they fail in it, let the Bishops make due provision with authority from the Supreme Pontiff. Let there be, as far as this is possible, a special censor for newspapers and periodicals written by Catholics. It shall be his office to read in due time each number after it has been published, and if he find anything dangerous in it let him order that it be corrected as soon as possible. The Bishop shall have the same right even when the censor has seen nothing objectionable in a publication.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">54. We have already mentioned congresses and public gatherings as among the means used by the Modernists to propagate and defend their opinions. In the future, Bishops shall not permit congresses of priests except on very rare occasions. When they do permit them it shall only be on condition that matters appertaining to the Bishops or the Apostolic See be not treated in them, and that no resolutions or petitions be allowed that would imply a usurpation of sacred authority, and that absolutely nothing be said in them which savors of Modernism, presbyterianism, or laicism. At congresses of this kind, which can only be held after permission in writing has been obtained in due time and for each case it shall not be lawful for priests of other dioceses to be present without the written permission of their Ordinary. Further, no priest must lose sight of the solemn recommendation of Leo XIII: "Let priests hold as sacred the authority of their pastors, let them take it for certain that the sacerdotal ministry, if not exercised under the guidance of the Bishops, can never be either holy, or very fruitful, or worthy of respect.''30</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">55. But of what avail, Venerable Brethren, will be all Our commands and prescriptions if they be not dutifully and firmly carried out? In order that this may be done it has seemed expedient to us to extend to all dioceses the regulations which the Bishops of Umbria, with great wisdom, laid down for theirs many years ago. "In order," they say, ''to extirpate the errors already propagated and to prevent their further diffusion, and to remove those teachers of impiety through whom the pernicious effects of such diffusion are being perpetuated, this sacred Assembly, following the example of St. Charles Borromeo, has decided to establish in each of the dioceses a Council consisting of approved members of both branches of the clergy, which shall be charged with the task of noting the existence of errors and the devices by which new ones are introduced and propagated, and to inform the Bishop of the whole, so that he may take counsel with them as to the best means for suppressing the evil at the outset and preventing it spreading for the ruin of souls or, worse still, gaining strength and growth."31 We decree, therefore, that in every diocese a council of this kind, which We are pleased to name the "Council of Vigilance,'' be instituted without delay. The priests called to form part in it shall be chosen somewhat after the manner above prescribed for the censors, and they shall meet every two months on an appointed day in the presence of the Bishop. They shall be bound to secrecy as to their deliberations and decisions, and in their functions shall be included the following: they shall watch most carefully for every trace and sign of Modernism both in publications and in teaching, and to preserve the clergy and the young from it they shall take all prudent, prompt, and efficacious measures. Let them combat novelties of words, remembering the admonitions of Leo XIII: "It is impossible to approve in Catholic publications a style inspired by unsound novelty which seems to deride the piety of the faithful and dwells on the introduction of a new order of Christian life, on new directions of the Church, on new aspirations of the modern soul, on a new social vocation of the clergy, on a new Christian civilization, and many other things of the same kind."32 Language of the kind here indicated is not to be tolerated either in books or in lectures. The Councils must not neglect the books treating of the pious traditions of different places or of sacred relics. Let them not permit such questions to be discussed in journals or periodicals destined to foster piety, either with expressions savoring of mockery or contempt, or by dogmatic pronouncements, especially when, as is often the case, what is stated as a certainty either does not pass the limits of probability or is based on prejudiced opinion. Concerning sacred relics, let this be the rule: if Bishops, who alone are judges in such matters, know for certain that a relic is not genuine, let them remove it at once from the veneration of the faithful; if the authentications of a relic happen to have been lost through civil disturbances, or in any other way, let it not be exposed for public veneration until the Bishop has verified it. The argument of prescription or well-founded presumption is to have weight only when devotion to a relic is commendable by reason of its antiquity, according to the sense of the Decree issued in 1896 by the Congregation of Indulgences and Sacred Relics: "Ancient relics are to retain the veneration they have always enjoyed except when in individual instances there are clear arguments that they are false or superstitious." In passing judgment on pious traditions let it always be borne in mind that in this matter the Church uses the greatest prudence, and that she does not allow traditions of this kind to be narrated in books except with the utmost caution and with the insertion of the declaration imposed by Urban VIII; and even then she does not guarantee the truth of the fact narrated; she simply does not forbid belief in things for which human evidence is not wanting. On this matter the Sacred Congregation of Rites, thirty years ago, decreed as follows: "These apparitions or revelations have neither been approved nor condemned by the Holy See, which has simply allowed them to be believed on purely human faith, on the tradition which they relate, corroborated by testimony and documents worthy of credence."33 Anyone who follows this rule has no cause to fear. For the devotion based on any apparition, in so far as it regards the fact itself, that is to say, in so far as the devotion is relative, always implies the condition of the fact being true; while in so far as it is absolute, it is always based on the truth, seeing that its object is the persons of the saints who are honored. The same is true of relics. Finally, We entrust to the Councils of Vigilance the duty of overlooking assiduously and diligently social institutions as well as writings on social questions so that they may harbor no trace of Modernism, but obey the prescriptions of the Roman Pontiffs.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">56. Lest what We have laid down thus far should pass into oblivion, We will and ordain that the Bishops of all dioceses, a year after the publication of these letters and every three years thenceforward, furnish the Holy See with a diligent and sworn report on the things which have been decreed in this Our Letter, and on the doctrines that find currency among the clergy, and especially in the seminaries and other Catholic institutions, those not excepted which are not subject to the Ordinary, and We impose the like obligation on the Generals of religious orders with regard to those who are under them.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">57. This, Venerable Brethren, is what We have thought it Our duty to write to you for the salvation of all who believe. The adversaries of the Church will doubtless abuse what We have said to refurbish the old calumny by which We are traduced as the enemy of science and of the progress of humanity. As a fresh answer to such accusations, which the history of the Christian religion refutes by never-failing evidence, it is Our intention to establish by every means in our power a special Institute in which, through the co-operation of those Catholics who are most eminent for their learning, the advance of science and every other department of knowledge may be promoted under the guidance and teaching of Catholic truth. God grant that We may happily realize Our design with the assistance of all those who bear a sincere love for the Church of Christ. But of this We propose to speak on another occasion.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Meanwhile, Venerable Brethren, fully confident in your zeal and energy, We beseech for you with Our whole heart the abundance of heavenly light, so that in the midst of this great danger to souls from the insidious invasions of error upon every hand, you may see clearly what ought to be done, and labor to do it with all your strength and courage. May Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, be with you in His power; and may the Immaculate Virgin, the destroyer of all heresies, be with you by her prayers and aid. And We, as a pledge of Our affection and of the Divine solace in adversity, most lovingly grant to you, your clergy and people, the Apostolic Benediction.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">58. Given at St. Peter's, Rome, September 8, 1907, in the fifth year of Our Pontificate. PIUS X, POPE</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">REFERENCES</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1. Acts 20:30.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2. Titus 1:10.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3. ii Tim. 3:13.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4. De Revelatione, can. 1.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5. Ibid., can. 2.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6. De Fide, can. 3. 7. De Revelatione, can. 3.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8. Gregory XVI, encyclical of June 25, 1834, Singulari Nos.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">9. Brief to the Bishop of Breslau, June 15, 1857.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10. Gregory IX Epist. ad Magistros theol. paris. July 7, 1223.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">11. Proposition 29, condemned by Leo X in the bull of May 16, 1520, Exsurge Domine: Via nobis facta est enervandi auctoritatem Conciliorum et libere contradicendi eorum gestis et iudicandi eorum decreta, at confidenter confitendi quidquid verum videtur, sive probatum fuerit, sive reprobatum a quocumque Concilio.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">12. Sess. Vll, De Sacramentis in genere, can. 5.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">13. Proposition 2: "Propositio, quae statuit, potestatem a Deo Datam Ecclesiae ut communicaretur Pastoribus, qui sunt eius ministri pro salute animarum; sic intellecta, ut a communitate fidelium in Pastores derivetur ecclesiastici ministerii ac regiminis potestas: haeretica." Proposition 3: "Insuper, quae .statuit Romanun Pontificem esse caput ministeriale; sic explicata ut Romanus Pontifex non a Christo in persona beati Petri, sed ab Ecclesia potestatem ministerii accipiat, qua velut Petri successor, verus Christi vicarius ac totius Ecclesiae caput pollet in universa Ecclesia: haerectica."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">14. Pius IX,encyclical of November 9, 1846, Qui pluribus.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15. Syllabus, Prop. 5.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">16. Constitution Dei Filius, cap. 4.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">17. Loc. cit.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18. Rom. 1:21-22.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">19. Vatican Council, De Revelatione con. 2.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20. Epist. 28.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">21. Gregory XVI, encyclical of June 25, 1834, Singulari Nos.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">22. Syllabus, Prop. 13.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">23. Motu Proprio of March 14, 1891, Ut mysticam.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">24. Leo Xlll, encyclical of August 4, 1879, Aeterni Patris.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">25. Leo Xlll, Apostolic letter of December 10, 1889, In magna.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">26. Leo Xlll, allocution of March 7, 1880.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">27. Loc. cit.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">28. Cf. ASS, 29:359ff</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">29. Cf. ASS, 30:39ff.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">30. Leo Xlll, encyclical of February 10, 1884, Nobilissima Gallorum.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">31. Acts of the Congress of the Bishops of Umbria, November, 1849, tit. 2, art. 6</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">32. Instruction of the Sacred Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, January 27, 1902.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">33. Decree of May 2, 1877.</span><br />
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Before anyone mentions feeding habits of sheep go here: <a href="http://stepalestinecryfreedom.blogspot.com/p/date-of-christs-birth-date-of-christs.html">Palestine Cry: The Date of Christ's Birth</a><br />
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It takes a perfidious Jew to lie like a rug and tell the tall tale that that sheep have a problem with winter cold, whether during the day or night. God designed sheep specifically to do extremely well in the coldest of winters - outside night and day. Why do you think we use wool to stay warm in winter? Even when wool gets wet from snow melting close to a human being's skin of a person who is wearing wool - the wool will keep you warm.<br />
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Let me tell where Western Massachusetts is - it is the same latitude as upstate New York and it is not far from the White Mountains of New Hampshire. The White Mountains of New Hampshire are one of the coldest places there are in Winter, on a par with the Chilkat Valley in Alaska.<br />
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Now lets dispense with this Hanukkah nonsense. Judas Maccabeus is a Catholic Saint. All faithful Catholics from the first Adam to the last Saint are Saints of the Catholic Church of whom Jesus Christ is the Head. Judas Maccabeus did all he could to fight against an abomination in the temple that defiled it (the first was Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Seleucid king and his profanation of the temple, who died in 164 B.C.). Judas Maccabeus, if he had been alive during the Apostolate of Christ on earth, would have been Christ's disciple, same as St. Simon Zealotes. Christ revealed Himself to the Jews as the Messiah on His birthday as an adult in the temple on the feast of lights. It was Jesus Christ who warned of the two final abominations of the temple -<br />
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If St. Judas Maccabeus were alive today he would be leading an army to free Palestine from the Jews. You think Titus was harsh in 70 A.D.? St. Judas Maccabeus would enact the Biblical ban on the Jews in Occupied Palestine - all their forces would be destroyed and they would be driven from the land with no mercy. Their crimes against the Palestinians are secondary though very real. The crime of the nation of the Jews is Deicide and Perfidy and these are the worst crimes that exist. The nation of the Jews, by God's command do not have any right or business being in the Holy Land which is the home of the Holy Family, Jesus, Mary and Joseph.<br />
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</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>This Christmas men are looking to the Holy Land, and they are listening — not for the strains of “Glory to God in the Highest,” but for the sounds of war upon earth. And we might say: It is just. God long ago crashed the Temple of Jerusalem to the ground, and cursed its people, the Jews, to be forever homeless and wandering. If the world has defied this Divine judgment and supported a Jewish return to Palestine, then let the world bear the consequences of God’s righteous anger.</b></span><br />
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But this leaves a greater part unsaid. For the Holy Land is infinitely more than a geographical locality which God has forbidden to the Jews. It is, for all time, the precious countryside where God became the Child of a Virginal Mother, and where God as Man walked and taught and died for us. It is, indeed, God’s Land.<br />
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If, therefore, we are anxious this Christmas, our concern is this: The leaders of our nation have proposed that Christian boys be ready to shed their blood in order to make the Jews secure within the borders of the Holy Land. But should this happen, should Christian lives be spent to keep God’s Land in the hands of His crucifiers, the price of such betrayal will not be confined to the deserts of the East. We will be paying, in kind, on bloody Main Street, U. S. A.<br />
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Soon, the Jews of America will be trying once more to jostle Christmas from its place as the nation’s chief interest in late December. As elbow for this endeavor, the Jews will rely again on their festival of Chanukah — once a minor holiday but recently seized on because of its timely Yuletide occurrence and now celebrated with all the blare and bluster the Jews can produce.<br />
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Though originally set up in 165 B. C., the observance of Chanukah (Hebrew for “Dedication”) has long since lost its holy, Old Testament meaning. Thus, when Jewish leaders decided a few years back to revive and exalt the holiday, they found it expedient also to invest it with a fresh and acceptable significance. They have, accordingly, made it an annual practice to hire the principal halls in the principal cities of the country for the staging of special Chanukah pageants. These loudly-trumpeted extravaganzas (“Inspiring — Breathtaking — Spectacular”) oppose the Birth of the true Messias by dramatizing, with the solemnity of religious ritual, the birth of their own messianic empire: the Jewish state of Israel.<br />
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It is, of course, true that the Jews would have been eager to exploit any one of their festivals that was opportune in order to affront the beauty and singularity of Christmas. Yet Chanukah is especially suited for such a use — because it was on that day that Our Lord revealed Himself to the Jews as the Messias, and, for doing so, was almost stoned. The story is told in the Holy Gospel of Saint John (Chap. 10, v. 22-39):<br />
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Because it is reckoned by the Jewish calendar, the day on which Chanukah falls may vary from year to year by as much as a month. This year it is due to fall on its earliest possible date. But Jews have never been ones to let liturgical niceties stand in the way of more vital considerations, and so, the Jews of Boston (the only segment of whose plans we have heard) are making an adroit adjustment in their schedule. Their annual Chanukah pageant at the Boston Garden will be held this year, not when the calendar says Chanukah should occur, but some three weeks later, on December the twenty-third — just a stone’s throw from Christmas.<br />
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The pride of Jewish rural life is the “kibbutz,” a sort of collective farm settlement, of which there are presently some 250 well-populated examples in the state of Israel. A recent volume to swell the praises of these communes is Harvard University Press’ <i>Kibbutz, Venture in Utopia</i>. The following two extracts from this book provide a raw, startling picture of the Jews who today inhabit the Land of Christ’s Birth:<br />
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“As for marriage, they believed — and still believe — that a union between a man and woman was their own affair, to be entered into on the basis of love and to be broken at the termination of love; neither the union nor the separation were to require the permission or the sanction of the community. Today, for example, if a couple wishes to marry, the partners merely ask for a joint room; if they wish a divorce, they return to separate rooms.”<br />
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“All things which He had made, bore witness that their Maker was come ... And yet, up to this very hour, the hearts of the unbelieving Jews will not acknowledge that He, to Whom all nature gave testimony, is their God. Being more hardened than the rocks, the Jews refuse to be rent by repentance.”</blockquote>
This is but one instance of what the Jews would term the “anti-Semitism” of the Church’s Advent and Christmas Season liturgy. With the possible exception of Holy Week in Lent, there is no period in the whole liturgical year which more emphasizes the bridgeless chasm separating Christian faith and Jewish infidelity.<br />
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“Behold, O Israel, your king ... Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, for the day of the Lord is nigh ... It is the birth of the Christ, O Jerusalem ... The Savior of the world will be our King ... He shall sit upon the throne of David His father.”</blockquote>
These are the tidings of great joy which plague the Jews as sorely this December as they did more than nineteen hundred years ago. And among these tidings there is, for the Jews, no more hateful information than the exultant shouts that the Baby of Bethlehem is the true Son of David, inheriting a royal title from His foster father, Saint Joseph, and royal blood from His Spotless Mother, the Virgin Mary. It was precisely to attack this central truth of Christmas that the rabbis of the early Christian centuries concocted that unprintably-filthy version of the Birth of Christ which is now found in the Jews’ “holy” book, the Talmud. We have determined never to reprint, in direct quotation, these blasphemous assaults against the purity of the Mother of God. But that they were invented by the rabbis, for the express purpose of challenging Our Lord’s title to the Throne of David, is abundantly admitted by Jewish authorities. The <i>Jewish Encyclopedia</i>, for example, blithely states, in its article on “Jesus,” that, “For polemical purposes it was necessary for the Jews to insist on the illegitimacy of Jesus as against the Davidic descent claimed by the Christian Church.”<br />
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At no point in the Christmas liturgy, however, does the Church’s consciousness of Jewish perfidy becloud her joy at the Birth of the Messias. In this spirit, therefore, we anticipate the coming gladness, and leave our readers with that jubilant exhortation from the Third Mass of Christmas:<br />
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“Come ye Gentiles and adore the Lord, for this day a great light hath descended upon the earth!”</blockquote>
<a href="http://1amendmentcont.blogspot.com/2011/09/food-for-thought.html">God and His Messiah Jesus Christ our Lord - our right and duty to witness to Him: Food for thought</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif;">The prophets of the Old Testament so exactly predicted the coming of the Messiah that Herod knew within two years time that it was Jesus (Yeshua) at His birth. Anyone, especially Jews who know their Torah of Moses and the Prophets from Moses to the time of Jesus Christ, Yeshua ha Maschiach, should avail themselves of the Book of Isaiah, Chapters 52 and 53 and the Book of Daniel, Chapter 11 in order to show some of the more important proofs to themselves of the fact that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ promised to the Jews and Gentiles alike. Faith in Him is salvific.</span></blockquote>
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<a href="http://jews-called-in-christ.blogspot.com/2012/01/st-isaiah.html">Jews called in Christ: St. Isaiah</a><br />
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<a href="http://jews-called-in-christ.blogspot.com/2012/01/way-out-of-18-temple-benedictions.html">Jews called in Christ: The way out of the 18 temple benedictions</a><br />
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The Jew false prophet Maimonides (Rabbi Moses Ben Maimon), in order to hide the fact that the Jews KNEW that the Prophet Daniel had prophesied the time of the Messiah's Incarnation and He of course was Jesus Christ, said: "Daniel has elucidated to us the knowledge of the end times. However, since they are secret, the wise [rabbis] have barred the calculation of the days of Messiah's coming so that the untutored populace will not be led astray when they see that <b>the End Times</b> [<i>the appearance of the Messiah - Jesus Christ</i>] <b>have already come</b> but there is no sign of the Messiah" (Igeret Teiman, Chapter 3 p.24.)</div>
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<b>",,,the End Times have already come..." 2,000 years ago with the coming of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, who only is the Messiah. </b>"... but there is no sign of the Messiah" means that Maimonides and the rest of the Perfidious Jews unlawfully and out of utterly unrepentant evil hearts knowingly reject the true Messiah, who is Jesus Christ, and the Jews' nation are therefore damned for the unforgivable sin, forever.<br />
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The seventy weeks of Daniel's Prophecy makes it absolute that the only time the Messiah could come in history is the time when Jesus Christ, who alone is the only Messiah and the only one who could be the Messiah, came.<br />
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The seventy weeks begins in the Old Testament, at that time, with the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">"going forth of the word to restore and to build <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city>" (Dan. 9:25)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">24 *Seventy weeks are shortened upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, that transgression may be finished, and sin may have an end, and iniquity may be abolished; and everlasting justice may be brought; and vision and prophecy may be fulfilled; and the Saint of saints may be anointed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">25 Know thou, therefore, and take notice: <i>that </i>from the going forth of the word, to build up Jerusalem again, unto Christ, the prince, there shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks: and the street shall be built again, and the walls, in straitness of times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">26 And after sixty-two weeks Christ shall be slain: and the people that shall deny him shall not be his. And a people, with their leader, that shall come, shall destroy the city, and the sanctuary: and the end thereof shall be waste, and after the end of the war the appointed desolation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">27 And he shall confirm the covenant with many, in one week: and in the half of the week the victim and the sacrifice shall fail: and there shall be in the temple the abomination of desolation: and the desolation shall continue even to the consummation, and to the end.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 24.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Seventy weeks</i> (viz. of years, or seventy times seven, that is, 490 years) <i>are shortened;</i> that is, fixed and determined, so that the time shall be no longer. Ch. <b>—</b> This is not a conditional prophecy. Daniel was solicitous to know when the seventy years of Jeremias would terminate. But something of far greater consequence is revealed to him, (W.) even the coming and death of the Messias, four hundred and ninety years after the order for rebuilding the walls should be given, (C.) at which period Christ would redeem the world, (W.) and abolish the sacrifices of the law. C. <b>—</b> <i>Finished,</i> or arrive at its height by the crucifixion of the Son of God; (Theod.) or rather sin shall be forgiven. Heb. "to finish crimes to seal (<i>cover or remit</i>) sins, and to expiate iniquity." <b>—</b> <i>Anointed.</i> Christ is the great anointed of God, the source of justice, and the end of the law and of the prophets, (Acts x. 38. and 1 Cor. i. 30. Rom. x. 4. C.) as well as the pardoner of crimes. These four characters belong only to Christ. W.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 25.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Word,</i> &c. That is, from the twentieth year of king Artaxerxes, when, by his commandment, Nehemias rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem, 2 Esd. ii. From which time, according to the best chronology, there were just sixty-nine weeks of years, the is 483 years, to the baptism of Christ, when he first began to preach and execute the office of Messias. Ch. <b>—</b> The prophecy is divided into three periods: the first of forty-nine years, during which the walls were completed; (they had been raised in fifty-two days, (2 Esd. vi. 15.) but many other fortifications were still requisite) the second of four hundred and thirty-four years, at the end of which Christ was baptized, in the fifteenth of Tiberius, the third of three years and a half, during which Christ preached. In the middle of this last week, the ancient sacrifices became useless, (C.) as the true Lamb of God had been immolated. Theod. <b>—</b> A <i>week</i> of years denotes seven years, as Lev. xxv. and thus seventy of these weeks would make four hundred and ninety years. V. Bede. Rat. temp. 6 &c. W. <b>—</b> Origen would understand 4900 years, and dates from the fall of Adam to the ruin of the temple. Marsham begins twenty-one years after the captivity commenced, when Darius took Susa, and ends in the second of Judas, when the temple was purified. This system would destroy the prediction of Christ's coming, and is very uncertain. Hardouin modifies it, and acknowledges that Christ was the end of the prophecy, though it was fulfilled in figure by the death of Onias III. See 1 Mac. i. 19. Senens. Bib. viii. hær. 12. and Estius. From C. vii. to xii. the changes in the East, till the time of Epiphanes, are variously described. After the angel had here addressed Daniel, the latter was still perplexed; (C. x. 1.) and in order to remove his doubts, the angel informs him of the persecution of Epiphanes, as if he had been speaking of the same event. We may, therefore, count forty-nine years from the taking of Jerusalem (when Jeremias spoke, C. vi. 19.) to Cyrus, <i>the anointed,</i> (Is. xlv. 1.) who was appointed to free God's people. They would still be under the Persians, &c. for other four hundred and thirty-four years, and then Onias should be slain. Many would join the Machabees; the sacrifices should cease in the middle of the seventieth week, and the desolation shall continue to <i>the end</i> of it. Yet, though this system may seem plausible, it is better to stick to the common one, which naturally leads us to the death of Christ, dating from the tenth year of Artaxerxes. C. <b>—</b> He had reigned ten years already with his father. Petau. <b>—</b> All the East was persuaded that a great king should arise about the time; when our Saviour actually appeared, and fulfilled all that had been spoken of the Messias. C. Diss. <b>—</b> Ferguson says, "We have an astronomical demonstration of the truth of this ancient prophecy, seeing that the prophetic year of the Messias being cut off was the very same with the astronomical." In a dispute between a Jew and a Christian, at Venice, the Rabbi who presided...put an end to the business by saying, "Let us shut up our Bibles; for if we proceed in the examination of this prophecy, it will make us all become Christians." Watson, let. 6. <b>—</b> Hence probably the Jews denounce a curse on those who calculate the times, (H.) and they have purposely curtailed their chronology. C. <b>—</b> <i>Times,</i> &c. (<i>angustia temporum</i>) which may allude both to the difficulties and opposition they met with in building, and to the shortness of the time in which they finished the wall, viz. fifty-two days. Ch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 26.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Weeks,</i> or four hundred and thirty-eight years, which elapsed from the twentieth of Artaxerxes to the death of Christ, according to the most exact chronologists. C. <b>—</b> <i>Slain.</i> Prot. "cut off, but not for himself, and the people of the prince that," &c. H. <b>—</b> S. Jerom and some MSS. read, <i>Christus, et non erit ejus.</i> The sense is thus suspended. The Jews lose their prerogative of being God's people. C. <b>—</b> Christ will not receive them again. S. Jer. <b>—</b> Gr. "the unction shall be destroyed, and there shall not be judgment in him." The priesthood and royal dignity is taken from the Jews. Theod. <b>—</b> The order of succession among the high priests was quite deranged, while the country was ruled by the Romans, and by Herod, a foreigner. C. <b>—</b> <i>Leader.</i> The Romans under Titus. Ch. C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 27.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Many.</i> Christ seems to allude to this passage. Mat. xxvi. 28. He died for all; but several of the Jews particularly, would not receive the proffered grace. C. <b>—</b> <i>Of the week,</i> or in the middle of the week, &c. Because Christ preached three years and a half: and then, by his sacrifice upon the cross, abolished all the sacrifices of the law. Ch. <b>—</b> <i>Temple.</i> Heb. "the wing," (C.) or pinnacle, (H.) the highest part of the temple. C. <b>—</b> <i>Desolation.</i> Some understand this of the profanation of the temple by the crimes of the Jews, and by the bloody faction of the zealots. Others, of the bringing in thither the ensigns and standard of the pagan Romans. <b>Others, in fine, distinguish three different times of desolation: viz. that under Antiochus; that when the temple was destroyed by the Romans; and the last near the end of the world, under antichrist.</b><b> </b> To all which, as they show, this prophecy has a relation. Ch. <b>—</b> Prot. "For the overspreading of abominations he shall make it desolate, even unto the consummation; and that determined, shall be poured upon the desolate." H. <b>—</b> The ruin shall be entire. C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://traditional-catholic-prayers.blogspot.com/p/rebuilt-temple-of-remphan-in-jerusalem.html">Traditional Catholic Prayers: The Rebuilt Temple of Remphan in Jerusalem and the Armour Bearer of the Antichrist, the False Prophet</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">2 And now I will shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand yet three kings in Persia, and the fourth shall be enriched exceedingly above them all: and when he shall be grown mighty by his riches, he shall stir up all against the kingdom of Greece.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">4 And when he shall come to his height, his kingdom shall be broken, and it shall be divided towards the four winds of the heaven: but not to his posterity, nor according to his power with which he ruled. For his kingdom shall be rent in pieces, even for strangers, besides these.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">6 And after the end of years they shall be in league together: and the daughter of the king of the south shall come to the king of the north to make friendship, but she shall not obtain the strength of the arm, neither shall her seed stand: and she shall be given up, and her young men that brought her, and they that strengthened her in <i>these </i>times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">10 And his sons shall be provoked, and they shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and he shall come with haste like a flood: and he shall return, and be stirred up, and he shall join battle with his forces.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">11 And the king of the south being provoked, shall go forth, and shall fight against the king of the north, and shall prepare an exceeding great multitude, and a multitude shall be given into his hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">17 And he shall set his face to come to possess all his kingdom, and he shall make upright <i>conditions </i>with him: and he shall give him a daughter of women, to overthrow it: and she shall not stand, neither shall she be for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">20 And there shall stand up in his place one most vile, and unworthy of kingly honour: and in a few days he shall be destroyed, not in rage nor in battle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">24 And he shall enter into rich and plentiful cities: and he shall do that which his fathers never did, nor his fathers' fathers: he shall scatter their spoils, and their prey, and their riches, and shall forecast devices against the best fenced places: and this until a time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">25 And his strength, and his heart, shall be stirred up against the king of the south, with a great army: and the king of the south shall be stirred up to battle with many and very strong succours: and they shall not stand, for they shall form designs against him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">27 And the heart of the two kings shall be to do evil, and they shall speak lies at one table, and they shall not prosper: because as yet the end <i>is </i>unto another time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">28 And he shall return into his land with much riches: and his heart <i>shall be</i> against the holy covenant, and he shall succeed, and shall return into his own land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">30 And the galleys and the Romans shall come upon him, and he shall be struck, and shall return, and shall have indignation against the covenant of the sanctuary, and he shall succeed: and he shall return, and shall devise against them that have forsaken the covenant of the sanctuary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">31 And arms shall stand on his part, and they shall defile the sanctuary of strength, and shall take away the continual sacrifice, and they shall place <i>there </i>the abomination unto desolation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">33 And they that are learned among the people shall teach many: and they shall fall by the sword, and by fire, and by captivity, and by spoil for <i>many </i>days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 1.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Confirmed.</i> Gabriel assisted Michael to comply with God's orders. C. x. 21. C. <b>—</b> The angel continues his speech, and informs us that he had prayed for Darius after the fall of Babylon, seeing that he was well-inclined towards the Jews, as his successor Cyrus (who liberated them) was also. W.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 2.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Three,</i> &c. Cambyses, Smerdis magus, and Darius the son of Hystaspes. Ch. W. <b>—</b> Cyrus had been mentioned before. C. x. 13. 20. Smerdis, or Artaxerxes, (1 Esd. iv. 7.) was the chief of the seven magi, and usurped the throne for six months after the death of Cambyses. C. <b>—</b> He had been declared king before (H.) by Patizites, his own brother. The news excited the fury of Cambyses, who mounting on horseback gave himself a mortal wound in the thigh. Herod. iii. 21. See Ezec. xxxviii. 21. H. <b>—</b> <i>Fourth:</i> Xerxes. Ch. <b>—</b> He invaded Greece with an immense army, forcing those on the road to join him. Just. i. 10. Herod. vii. and viii. C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 4.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>These</i> four; Ptolemy, Seleucus, Antigonus, and Antipater, kings of Egypt, Syria, Asia, and Greece. C. vii. 6. and viii. 22. Besides the other generals, (C.) foreigners began to erect new kingdoms in what had formed the empire of Alexander. S. Jer. Livy xlv. C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 5.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>South:</i> Ptolemeus, the son of Lagus, king of Egypt, which lies south of Jerusalem. Ch. <b>—</b>S. Irenæus (iv. 43.) observes, that all prophecies are obscure till they be fulfilled. History shews that this relates to Ptolemy. The kingdoms of Egypt and of Syria are more noticed, as they had much to do with the Jews. W. <b>—</b> Ptolemy took Cyprus (C.) and Jerusalem. Jos. Ant. xii. 12. <b>—</b> <i>His princes</i> (that is, one of Alexander's princes) <i>shall prevail over him;</i> that is, shall be stronger than the king of Egypt. He speaks of Seleucus Nicator, king of Asia and Syria, whose successors are here called the kings of the north, because their dominions lay to the north in respect to Jerusalem. Ch. <b>—</b> Nicator means a "conqueror." H. <b>—</b>This king was master of all from Media and Babylonia to Jerusalem. Appian, &c. C. <b>—</b>Philadelphus was more powerful than his father. W.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 6.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>South.</i> Bernice, daughter of Ptolemeus Philadelphus, given in marriage to Antiochus Theos, grandson of Seleucus, (Ch.) and king of Syria. She brought a great "dowry," and was therefore styled <i>Phernophoros.</i> Antiochus agreed to repudiate Laodicea; but he soon took her back. Fearing his inconstancy, she poisoned him, and slew his son by Bernice. This lady in a rage mounted her chariot, and having knocked down the cruel minister of such barbarity, trampled upon his body. The rest pretended that the infant was still living, and delivered up a part of the palace to Bernice, yet slew her as soon as they had an opportunity. S. Jer. Usher, A. 3758. V. Max. ix. 10. &c. C.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 38.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>The god Maozim.</i> That is, the god of <i>forces</i> or <i>strong holds. </i> Ch. <b>—</b> <i>Mahuzzim</i> denotes "strong ones," (H.) <i>guardians,</i> &c. Dr. Newton (Diss.) explains, the <i>king</i> (v. 36.) of the Roman state; and supposes that here the <i>guardian saints</i> and angels are meant, whose worship he shews "began in the Roman empire, very soon after it became Christian. This exposition seems far preferable to that which interprets" <i>Jupiter</i> or <i>the heavens,</i> and understands the idol set up by Epiphanes. See Univ. Hist. x. Parkhurst. <b>—</b> If these authors speak of the inferior veneration shewn to saints and angels in the Catholic Church, it had a much earlier commencement, being coeval with religion itself. But only the blindest prejudice can represent this as idolatrous, and of course this system must fall to the ground. H. <b>—</b> Others suppose that Mars, Hercules, <i>Azizus,</i> or Jupiter, may be designated. Heb. "He will rise up against all, (38) and against the strong God (<i>of Israel.</i> v. 31. C. viii. 10. C.) he will, in his place, worship a strange god, " &c. Jun. <b>—</b> None of the ancestors of Epiphanes had ever adored Jupiter on the altar of holocausts. C. <b>—</b> He and antichrist adore either the great Jupiter or their own strength. W.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The true God who is the eternal <a href="http://jews-called-in-christ.blogspot.com/search/label/I%20AM">I AM</a> prophesied through His servants the prophets of the coming of the Messiah, who is the only Saviour of the world. The form of salvation, His Cross, is shown by <a href="http://stepalestinecryfreedom.blogspot.com/search/label/Isaiah%2052-%2053">Isaiah 52- 53</a>, see here: <a href="http://jews-called-in-christ.blogspot.com/2012/01/st-isaiah.html">Jews called in Christ: St. Isaiah</a> and the time of His appearing and His sacrifice on His Most Holy Cross for our salvation is told in <a href="http://stepalestinecryfreedom.blogspot.com/search/label/Daniel%209">Daniel 9</a>in St. Daniel’s <a href="http://stepalestinecryfreedom.blogspot.com/search/label/70%20weeks">70 weeks</a> of years prophecy. </blockquote>
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For all Jews wishing to convert sincerely from the heart to Jesus Christ now, here is a prayer based on the biblical Hebrew of the prophets of the Old Testament and the Septuagint Greek of the Old Testament and the New Testament and Arabic.<br />
<a href="http://jews-called-in-christ.blogspot.com/2012/07/begun-in-2002-judged-illegal-2004.html">Jews called in Christ: Begun in 2002, judged illegal 2004, Israel’s apartheid wall goes on regardless | Jews for Justice for Palestinians</a></blockquote>
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THE SEAT OF THE FALSE PROPHET, THE VATICAN - CLICK ON PICTURE<br />
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“Wherefore, to each and all of the faithful of Christ, of whatever state,
grade, condition or order, We ordain stringently and in virtue of holy
obedience, that they shall not, under any pretext, enter, propagate, or support
the aforesaid societies, known as Freemasons, or otherwise named; that they
shall not be enrolled in them, affiliated with them, or take part in their
proceedings, assist them, or afford them in any way counsel, aid, or favor,
publicly or privately, directly or indirectly, by themselves or by others in
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Beware the two Beasts - therein is absolute damnation.<br />
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<a href="http://thecatholiccreed.blogspot.com/search/label/Beast">The Catholic Creed: Beast</a><br />
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<a href="http://theapocalypsethebookoftherevelation.blogspot.com/search/label/Beast">The Apocalypse, the Book of the Revelation: Beast</a><br />
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<a href="http://stepalestinecryfreedom.blogspot.com/2012/12/palestine-cry-vienna-vote-against.html">Palestine Cry: Palestine Cry: Vienna Vote against the Egyptian Constitution « Kawther Salam</a><br />
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;">This scripture makes it an unalterable and eternal truth from the time that Our Lord Jesus Christ said these words to the perfidious Jews that upon the judgement that fell on the Deicide Jews in 70 A.D. - THAT THEY, THE JEWS WOULD NEVER AGAIN BE THE NATION OF THE KINGDOM OF GOD V.</span>43 <b>Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and shall be given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.</b></div>
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While brave Palestine, the Holy land of the birth and death and resurrection and ascension and unalterably promised return of the Lord Jesus Christ, alone like David, withstands the Zio-Anglo-American-Pan European-<a href="http://stepalestinecryfreedom.blogspot.com/search/label/Triad">Triad</a> vile <a href="http://1law-order-and-justice.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-beast-of-sea-antichrist-israel.html">Beasts</a>, the rest of the world will be taken by sudden destruction by the <a href="http://langosh5.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Beast%20from%20the%20Earth">Beasts</a> if they don't wake up and help Palestine in this war against absolute evil.<br />
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<a href="http://stepalestinecryfreedom.blogspot.com/2012/12/vienna-vote-against-egyptian.html">Palestine Cry: Vienna Vote against the Egyptian Constitution « Kawther Salam</a><br />
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Source: <a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/12/constitutional-vote-polarizes-egypt.html">The Excavator: Constitutional Vote Polarizes Egypt</a><br />
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Egyptians are engaged in a lively and interesting debate about the direction of their politics and the future of their country. You get a glimpse of it in the video below.<br />
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Video: Constitutional Vote Polarizes Egypt. Source: The Real News.<br />
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<a href="http://stepalestinecryfreedom.blogspot.com/2012/12/palestine-cry-israel-wants-to-demolish.html">Palestine Cry: Palestine Cry: Israel wants to Demolish the Egyptian Army Memorial « Kawther Salam</a><br />
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<a href="http://stepalestinecryfreedom.blogspot.com/2012/12/palestine-cry-us-sticks-its-nose-into.html">Palestine Cry: Palestine Cry: US Sticks its Nose Into Egyptian Constitution Process « Kawther Salam</a><br />
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The Devil (Iblis) and its evil minions are using terror and drugs (see below for examples) and thieving lies (see above for example about Egyptian Constitution and bribery and illegalities) as the main instruments of their dominion over nations and countries and peoples. The Devil and its minions must be totally fought against by God Worshiping faithful people.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-dark-knight-rises-prophesied-sandy.html">The Excavator: The Dark Knight Rises Prophesied Sandy Hook Shooting</a><br />
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Check out the article, <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2012/12/sandy-hook-reference-in-batman-dark-knight-rises-movie-2446750.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>"Sandy Hook Reference In Batman: Dark Knight Rises Movie,"</i></a> and blow up the following pictures.<br />
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The name of the school where the recent mass shooting took place is called Sandy Hook Elementary School.<br />
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The hurricane in New York was called Sandy for a reason.<br />
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These are not coincidences. The filmmakers behind The Dark Knight Rises deliberately had the actor point to "Sandy Hook" on the map. This is beyond spooky and disturbing.<br />
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Also, at the 1:05:44 mark in the film, Bruce Wayne/Batman tells the Robin character named Blake while in the car, <b>"You know what? Drop me in Old Town."</b> <a href="http://www.moviequotesandmore.com/dark-knight-rises-quotes-1.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>Go here for the source</i></a>. This line is a direct reference to the name of the town that was the victim of the latest mass shooting, Newtown.<br />
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I was denying to myself that this shooting was staged by the deep state and the Illuminati just like the last one in the movie theatre in Colorado. But not anymore. It's impossible to deny now. These are huge red flags. The filmmakers of The Dark Knight Rises must answer why they dropped these hints in their film. Is this a sick game their playing with the public? Are they dropping hints to themselves?<br />
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I will write a more in-depth article about this disturbing new information tomorrow and connect it to my previous articles about the shooting in Colorado and the patsy James Eagan Holmes. Read them below:<br />
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<a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.ca/2012/07/the-deep-state-rises-end-of-lone-gunman.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>The Deep State Rises: End of The Lone Gunman Legend</i></a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.infowars.com/murder-under-hypnosis-the-james-holmes-story-takes-a-familiar-turn/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>Murder Under Hypnosis: The James Holmes Story Takes A Familiar Turn</i></a>.<br />
<a href="http://www.infowars.com/the-shadow-patsy-rises-again-how-mind-control-is-connected-to-gun-control/" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>The Shadow Patsy Rises Again: How Mind Control Is Connected To Gun Control</i></a>.<br />
<a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.ca/2012/07/a-deeper-look-at-dark-knight-rises.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>A Deeper Look At "The Dark Knight Rises" Shooting: A CIA Black Op? </i></a><br />
<a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.ca/2012/07/dark-rites-mass-shootings-as-rituals.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>Dark Rites: Mass Shootings As Rituals That Trigger Calls For Gun Control</i></a>.<br />
<a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/the-long-night-of-deep-state-terror-and.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>The Long Night of Deep State Terror And The Rise of The Total Security State</i></a>.<br />
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Source: <a href="http://disquietreservations.blogspot.com/2012/12/to-prevent-negative-thoughts-among.html">The Excavator: To Prevent Negative Thoughts Among Depressed Loners, Heroic Legislators Propose Radical Thought Control Legislation</a><br />
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<i>"</i>I want to mention, but only very briefly, a closely related aspect of this awful business. Stories have already appeared depicting Adam Lanza in the terms typically employed in the wake of such tragedies: he was a "loner," he was "painfully shy and awkward" (the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248782/High-school-tech-club-student-turned-cold-blooded-executioner-How-classmates-remember-genius-Adam-Lanza.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>Daily Mail</i></a>); he was generally weird, and he "seemed not to feel physical or psychological pain in the same way as classmates" (<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/school-adviser-gunman-loner-felt-no-pain-235416864.html;_ylt=A2KJ3CcE4s1QKj4A0YfQtDMD" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Yahoo News</a>). And of course, the <i>New York Times</i> will never permit itself to be <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/15/nyregion/adam-lanza-an-enigma-who-is-now-identified-as-a-mass-killer.html?hp" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">outdone on this score</a>. The <i>NYT</i> leads with the obviously terrifying and ominous fact that Lanza "carried a black briefcase to his 10th-grade honors English class" (!!), goes on to note that he was "nervous and fidgety" -- and offers what is apparently damning in the extreme: "[His former classmates] said he always seemed like he was someone who was capable of that because he just didn’t really connect with our high school, and didn’t really connect with our town.” And all the stories include the general catchall "explanation": he was "mentally ill" in some form.<br />
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You may think all of that is unexceptional in this case -- but I point you to another <i>NYT</i> story from over two years ago. That story described another "loner" in remarkably similar ways -- but the subject of the earlier story <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/09/us/09manning.html?pagewanted=all" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">was Bradley Manning</a>.<br />
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In response to the horrible tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, lawmakers are proposing aggressive gun control laws to stop the epidemic of mass shootings. This latest mass shooting has focused national attention on the controversial issue of gun control and could serve as an impetus for much-needed legal action to prevent further tragedies.<br />
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In addition to instituting a new gun control regime in the United States, some more radical lawmakers are saying that the country needs to set up a national agency dedicated to thought control.<br />
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The new agency would have many responsibilities such as tracking down emotionally withdrawn students from a young age and prescribing them psychotropic medications to help them deal with their mental and emotional problems. It is known that the shooter responsible for the Newtown massacre had mental issues and was very distant from society.<br />
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The most outspoken proponents of the new thought control legislation are psychologists, doctors, and people connected with the mental health profession. They argue that preventative action in the areas of mental health and childhood development would help create a more cohesive society in which young people are not so isolated that they are willing to kill children as a way to vent their ill feelings towards the world.<br />
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The thought control administrators won't only target students and children for thought training and emotional development, but also unemployed people, seniors, and young males. Its main task is to manage the emotions and thoughts of people so that they are not radicalized and estranged from their fellow citizens.<br />
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"In these tough economic times we need people to think happy thoughts," said one lawmaker who asked not be identified. "We have to try these new revolutionary solutions, even if the actions taken by the government goes against the will of individuals. There is no ill will on our part. We just want people to have positive thoughts even as they see the collapse of the world economy around them plus all the daily horrors of existence." he added.<br />
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Critics of the new law charge the thought control administrators of using brainwashing methods to remake American society. They say that they are using dangerous pharmaceutical drugs to both stigmatize and medicate individuals who wish not to be coerced into living in this new collectivist society.<br />
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"They are killing the human spirit by treating everyone as automaton robots with no souls. The thought control advocates deem anyone who has a different thought that deviates from mainstream opinion to be weird and paranoid. Such description of a difference of opinion is a dangerous step to a full-blown totalitarian society," said an opponent of the new law.<br />
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The steps towards constructing a thought control regime have already been taken by public officials and psychological professionals. Children as young as six are <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/health/attention-disorder-or-not-children-prescribed-pills-to-help-in-school.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>given drugs by doctors</i></a> on the payroll of pharmaceutical companies, which are oddly enough the same drugs that were found in the possession of the twenty year old shooter in Newtown. These drugs are known to cause<a href="http://www.naturalnews.com/034108_psychtropic_drugs_psychiatry.html" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;"><i>"psychosis, illness, and death."</i></a><br />
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The reaction to the new thought control legislation in the media has been overwhelming positive because it emphasizes their role. Under the new law, the mainstream media would be given new responsibilities and a new name, the "Truth Prevention Unit." Lawmakers say that the media has a responsibility to the public in its presentation of reality and its outlook on the near future.<br />
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A psychologist involved in producing the legislation said in a conversation with reporters, "We can't have people panicking and reaching for their guns in response to every disaster. We must tackle these complex cultural and social problems at their roots, which are in the mind. The mind organizes reality according to the information it receives. If we can control the information that reaches people then we can better prevent anti-social thoughts and behaviour, especially among young isolated individuals. Also, the media has a thought-shaping power that is undeniable so it has a great responsibility. We are asking media professionals to use their power to prevent the truth about the collapse of the economy and its causes from getting out to the public, as well as the truth about many other issues that will raise damaging questions about government policies and the future of our society."<br />
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According to this view, the truth is a disease that must be contained, so, naturally, people who tell the truth and report the facts are considered mentally ill. The implications for a democratic society are thought-provoking. America and the West as a whole prides itself on being different from totalitarian countries like China, where people are fed government-controlled information every day. But the differences are only in appearance.<br />
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This author encourages the citizens of the United States and other Western countries to raise public awareness about thought control and the use of classical brainwashing methods by public officials, psychologists, and media professionals.<br />
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Ishtarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14155500066284346079noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-879304461840708792012-11-11T10:53:00.001-08:002015-05-04T14:56:53.734-07:00Jesus Christ the Word through Whom all was created and through Whom alone there is salvation<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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All things were made by him: and without him was made nothing that was made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-70783432583284609442012-11-10T15:00:00.000-08:002015-05-04T14:56:53.709-07:00Eternal faith and beliefs: Jesus Christ is the Truth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">GOD is the Truth. The Most Holy Trinity is God and none other is God. The Most Holy Trinity is Three Persons Who are One God. These Three Persons are The Father and the Son, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. The Father is the fountainhead of the Trinity, the Son proceeds from His engendering in the Father’s bosom, the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father in the unity of the engendering of the Son from the Father. This procession of the Son and the Holy Spirit from the Father is immortal from before all time and creation and unto eternity never-ending. This Triune God alone has Aseity, that He is immortal without beginning and without end, self sustained in His existence which preceded all time and creation and, His existence, continues forever; God’s existence is infinite. This God is above all that He has created and transcendent in all that He has created. There is nothing apart from nor outside of God that He has not created. He created all that has been created ex nihilo, that is from nothing by His infinite power. Nothing that is created has aseity. Time is only an aspect of that which has been created by God. Time is therefore part of God’s creation. God is not limited by His creation, this includes that God is not limited by time. God is Omnipotent and Omniscient and Ubiquitos and with eternal complete foresight: Almighty and All seeing and knowing and equally present everywhere and knowing all things before their creation and all events before they come to pass unto eternity. There is no way to God but through the Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity Who is the Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom alone there is salvation by His Most Holy Cross and Resurrection. Creation had a beginning but will continue unto the eternal ages to come. At the return of Jesus Christ from God the Father’s right hand in the third heaven and the just judgement of Christ of His creatures, creation will be cleansed by fire (the damned, both angels and men consigned to hell forever) and renewed with paradise restored, with the presence around God of all His elect angels and saints, and continue in this way forever.</span></div>
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27 And whosoever doth not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.<br />
28 For which of you, having a mind to build a tower, doth not first sit down and count the cost that is necessary, whether he have wherewithal to finish it:<br />
33 So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth cannot be my disciple.<br />
34 Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?<br />
35 It is neither profitable for the land nor for the dunghill: but shall be cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">In none of the below where I have cited condemnation of false priests or conversely cited the priesthood of the faithful should it be thought that I am condemning good presbyters from among the priesthood of the faithful (St. Irenaeus was one such and a bishop without pretense) who are called priests today. That is those who hold to and teach the truth of Christ.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">This site is humbly offered to Jesus Christ and dedicated to all the faithful of the Catholic and Orthodox Churches and all traditional Trinitarian believing faithful Christians and especially all of Christ’s sheep that He, the Good Shepherd seeks to bring unto Him in His salvation; He Who is the Only Saviour. Who warned us not to have anything to do with the wolves in sheep’s clothing. To confirm the utter importance of not having anything to do with the wolves in sheep’s clothing the Lord especially had St. John the Apostle and Evangelist remain until the Lord had especially appeared to him and had him record that appearance and the visions Our Lord showed St. John at that time, in the last book of the bible, the Apocalypse. The message throughout it is absolutely clear, we are to have nothing to do with paganism or man made conventions that try to change what Our Lord taught us. Such as men forgiving the sins of other men. Only God forgives sin. Note that in the book of the Apocalypse that the keys (the Davidic key) that Christ promised Peter are still with Christ, that He, Jesus Christ alone locks and unlocks. This is extremely important. It means that every believing individual receives the keys that Christ gave to the Apostles, including Peter.</span><br />
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Only two times in history have the synchretist hypocrites reached the current level of complete misrepresentation of the truth, once 2000 years ago and now today.</span><br />
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Any Christian who knows the witness and preaching of St. John The Forerunner and Baptist of The Christ and any Christian who knows Christ’s denunciation of the hypocrites (see below from the Gospel of St. Matthew) knows that it is the hypocrites who are going to hell.</span><br />
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Most professing Christians do not understand the importance of St. John The Baptist and Forerunner of Christ. He was the last of the Old Testament prophets and the first of the New Testament prophets. He was the last of the Old Testament martyrs and the first of the New Testament martyrs. He is the only Old Testament and New Testament Apostle (one who saw Christ in the flesh and was commissioned by God to preach Christ!). In short, as St. Irenaeus reminds us constantly and rightly so (against Marcion and the rest of the apostate Gnostics), there is NO difference between Old Testament and New Testament faith. It is in the same God, period. It was Our Lord Jesus Christ Who taught us that there is no communion of light with dark; that either our eye is full of light or it is full of darkness, that a tree bears good fruit or bad fruit but not both.</span><br />
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There is a new version of Catholic, nowadays, one who believes that God is too maudlin to not save all men; there is a new version of Orthodox Church believer who believes that light and dark can indeed be combined, in fact, he believes God commands it; there is a new version of Protestant who doesn’t protest any heresy but only a lack of tolerance, especially if it gets in the way of his making money; there is a new version of what Our Lord meant by “born again”, now supposedly according to those calling themselves evangelical, you can’t lose your salvation no matter what you do (obviously they never had what their free will can’t forfeit so their comments, as utterly self serving as they are, mean absolutely nothing). It was the unswerving uncompromising Baptist that God the Holy Trinity, yes all three Persons, chose to baptize Jesus Christ in the Jordan. Christ commanded (not suggested) our baptism to show forth our unswerving uncompromising faith we are commanded to have. St. John The Forerunner is our model of following Christ, we decrease and He increases; NOT blessed are the puffed up. The whining self congratulating pseudochristians mentioned above, the false Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and Evangelical of unbelief, who have the diabolic audacity to accuse those who take Our Lord’s commandments and Our Lord’s denunciation of sin as well as St. John’s, and the Apostles commandments, to separate from the unbeliever and the disorderly seriously, of hypocrisy and an unrighteous judgmentalism are the Pharisee from hell that both Our Lord and St. John condemned as a brood of vipers (nasty little backbiting serpents) who cannot escape being sent to hell for eternity. As Jesus said, they compass heaven and earth to make one convert and only make him twice as much a son of hell as themselves! This is Our Lord speaking! take ye heed lest you make a dog in the manger the tyrant of the universe, take ye heed, Jesus said He came not to bring peace but a sword to divide, take ye heed lest you betray the Lord as did Judas Iscariot — even if the price has changed from thirty pieces of silver, take ye heed if you think like the Gnostics of old that morals are for sissies, Christ gave us morals and He is NO sissy. Nowadays things have gone so far downhill that the murder of babies is accepted by people as a right. Something that hasn’t plagued society since Moloch was a demon goddess worshipped in the middle east.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Alan Guttmacher Institute Mission: “The Institute’s mission is to protect the reproductive choices of all women and men in the United States and throughout the world. It is to support their ability to obtain the information and services needed to achieve their full human rights, safeguard their health and exercise their individual responsibilities in regard to sexual behavior and relationships, reproduction and family formation.”</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">From Mary Meehan’s “The Road to Abortion” Copyright © 1998, 1999 & 2002 by Mary Meehan. In 1966 Dr. Alan Guttmacher, apparently trying to be witty, wrote from Africa to a U.S. colleague: “My trip has been great. I believe I converted the Jews in Israel and now I am working on the pigmented savages.” This private comment from Guttmacher (who was Jewish, but not observant) came soon after his Planned Parenthood group gave an award to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.(32)<br />
32. William H. Draper, Jr., to P. A. Gorman, [8 or 11] Sept. 1967, Guttmacher Papers; Alan F. Guttmacher to Frank Notestein, 13 June 1966, PPFA (II), box 125; and Congressional Record (10 May 1966), vol. 112, part 8, 10164-10165. In his statement accepting the Margaret Sanger Award, Dr. King praised Sanger and family planning and spoke of “the modern plague of overpopulation.” Unfortunately, he seemed unaware of the eugenics connections of Sanger and of population control in general. Ibid.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">We could ask: ‘Do you think the demon goddess Lilith will have any appreciable following in Israel amongst Israeli women?’ Answer: ‘Most assuredly. Obviously the demon goddess Moloch has returned to the center of Israeli worship and that for export to Africa and the U.S.’</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">From the Gospel of St. Matthew chapter 23:</span><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">24 Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.<br />
25 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.<br />
26 Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.<br />
27 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and of all filthiness.<br />
28 So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.<br />
29 Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites that build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the monuments of the just,<br />
30 And say: If we had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets<br />
31 Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.<br />
32 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.<br />
33 You serpents, generation of vipers how will you flee from the judgment of hell?<br />
34 Therefore behold I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them you will put to death and crucify, and some you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:<br />
35 That upon you may come all the just blood that hath been shed upon the earth<br />
from the blood of Abel the just, even unto the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom you killed between the temple and the altar.<br />
36 Amen I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.<br />
37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldest not?<br />
38 Behold; your house shall be left to you, desolate.<br />
39 For I say to you, you shall not see me henceforth till you say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">See the lives of the Martyrs in either The Great Horologion or the Lives of the Saints of Fr. Alban Butler for examples of martyrs who kicked the idols over when they refused to worship them and put up with no depravity; this is real witness to Christ!</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The Great Horologion Or Book of the Hours<br />
Translated from the Greek by the Holy Transfiguration Monastery<br />
Boston, Massachussetts<br />
1997<br />
Copyright © 1997 by the<br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Lives of the Saints<br />
For Every Day of the Year<br />
With Reflections<br />
Compiled from the “Lives of the Saints” by<br />
Fr. Alban Butler<br />
WITH NEW SAINTS AND SAINTS WHOSE FEASTS ARE SPECIAL TO THE UNITED STATES<br />
Nihil Obstat:<br />
John M. Feams, SID. Censor Librorum<br />
Imprimatur:<br />
114 Francis Cardinal Spellman Archbishop of New York New York<br />
March 15, 1955<br />
Copyright © 1878, 1887, 1894, 1954, 1955 by Benziger Brothers, Inc., New York.<br />
Originally published as Lives of the Saints-With Reflections for Every Day in the Year.<br />
Frontispiece from an illustrated edition of Butler’s Lives of the Saints published in the 1880′s.<br />
Library of Congress Catalog Card No.: 95-60703<br />
ISBN: 0-89555-530-1<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">16. But the eleven disciples went into Galilee, to the mountain where Jesus had directed them to go, 17.<br />
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but some doubted. 18. And Jesus drew near and spoke to them saying, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me.<br />
19. Go, therefore, and make disciples<br />
of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, 20. teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you; and behold, I am with you all days, even unto the consummation of the world.” Until the endless ages of ages to come. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">14. At length he appeared to the Eleven as they were at table; and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and hardness of heart, in that they had not believed those who had seen him after he had risen. 15. And he said to them, “Go into the whole world and preach the gospel to every creature. 16. He who believes and is baptized shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be condemned. 17. And these signs shall attend those who believe: in my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak in new tongues; 18. they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands upon the sick and they shall get well.” </span><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">It is clear from the following that Jesus Christ did away with the Mosaic law and priesthood. It is also clear from the following that they had been temporary and only from the time of Moses because of the hardness of the Israelites hearts. It is also crystal clear in the following that the patriarchs before Moses and the prophets from Moses on were not likened to that, but indeed did worship God from the heart as the Church is commanded to do. At first the Church did not recognize any Episcopal authority the way it has been theorized from the fourth century on. See the Didache for anyone that has any doubts about that. In the Didache (which is Scripture written by the Apostles at the Council of Jerusalem – the only COMPLETE council the Church has ever had) every individual house church had complete authority on their own to hold the communion of the Lord’s Eucharist and to select their own bishops and deacons.</span></div>
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1 ¶ Now, faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.<br />
2 For by this the ancients obtained a testimony.<br />
3 By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God: that from invisible things visible things might be made.<br />
4 ¶ By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony that he was just, God giving testimony to his gifts. And by it he being dead yet speaketh.<br />
5 By faith Henoch was translated that he should not see death: and he was not found because God had translated him. For before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God.<br />
6 But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is: and is a rewarder to them that seek him.<br />
7 By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house: by the which he condemned the world and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith.<br />
8 By faith he that is called Abraham obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing whither he went.<br />
9 By faith he abode in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.<br />
10 For he looked for a city that hath foundations: whose builder and maker is God.<br />
11 By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age: because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,<br />
12 For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude and as the sand which is by the sea shore innumerable.<br />
13 All these died according to faith, not having received the promises but beholding them afar off and saluting them and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.<br />
14 For they that say these things do signify that they seek a country.<br />
15 And truly, if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless, time to return.<br />
16 But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.<br />
17 By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,<br />
18 (To whom it was said: In Isaac shalt thy seed be called )<br />
19 Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Whereupon also he received him for a parable.<br />
20 By faith also of things to come Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.<br />
21 By faith Jacob, dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph and adored the top of his rod.<br />
22 By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the going out of the children of Israel and gave commandment concerning his bones.<br />
23 By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents: because they saw he was a comely babe, and they feared not the king’s edict.<br />
24 By faith Moses, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharao’s daughter:<br />
25 Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God than to have the pleasure of sin for a time:<br />
26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.<br />
27 By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the fierceness of the king: for he endured, as seeing him that is invisible.<br />
28 By faith he celebrated the pasch and the shedding of the blood: that he who destroyed the firstborn might not touch them.<br />
29 By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up.<br />
30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days.<br />
31 By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with peace.<br />
32 ¶ And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:<br />
33 Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,<br />
34 Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners.<br />
35 Women received their dead raised to life again. But others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection.<br />
36 And others had trial of mockeries and stripes: moreover also of bands and prisons.<br />
37 They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:<br />
38 Of whom the world was not worthy: wandering in deserts, in mountains and in dens and in caves of the earth.<br />
39 And all these, being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise:<br />
40 God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.<br />
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15. Therefore: appoint for yourselves bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men who are humble and not avaricious and true and approved, for they too carry out for you the ministry of the prophets and teachers. (2) You must not, therefore, despise them, for they are your honored men, along with the prophets and teachers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Chapter XV.-At First God Deemed It Sufficient to Inscribe the Natural Law, or the Decalogue, Upon the Hearts of Men; But Afterwards He Found It Necessary to Bridle, with the Yoke of the Mosaic Law, the Desires of the Jews, Who Were Abusing Their Liberty; And Even to Add Some Special Commands, Because of the Hardness of Their Hearts.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1. They (the Jews) had therefore a law, a course of discipline, and a prophecy of future things. For God at the first, indeed, warning them by means of natural precepts, which from the beginning He had implanted in mankind, that is, by means of the Decalogue (which, if any one does not observe, he has no salvation), did then demand nothing more of them. As Moses says in Deuteronomy, “These are all the words which the Lord spake to the whole assembly of the sons of Israel on the mount, and He added no more; and He wrote them on two tables of stone, and gave them to me.”172 For this reason [He did so], that they who are willing to follow Him might keep these commandments. But when they turned themselves to make a calf, and had gone back in their minds to Egypt, desiring to be slaves instead of free-men, they were placed for the future in a state of servitude suited to their wish,-[a slavery] which did not indeed cut them off from God, but subjected them to the yoke of bondage; as Ezekiel the prophet, when stating the reasons for the giving of such a law, declares: “And their eyes were after the desire of their heart; and I gave them statutes that were not good, and judgments in which they shall not live.”173 Luke also has recorded that Stephen, who was the first elected into the diaconate by the apostles,174 and who was the first slain for the testimony of Christ, spoke regarding Moses as follows: “This man did indeed receive the commandments of the living God to give to us, whom your fathers would not obey, but thrust [Him from them], and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt, saying unto Aaron, Make us gods to go before us; for we do not know what has happened to [this] Moses, who led us from the land of Egypt. And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifices to the idol, and were rejoicing in the works of their own hands. But God turned, and gave them up to worship the hosts of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets:175 O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to Me sacrifices and oblations for forty years in the wilderness? And ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of the god Remphan,176 figures which ye made to worship them; “177 pointing out plainly, that the law being such, was not given to them by another God, but that, adapted to their condition of servitude, [it originated] from the very same [God as we worship]. Wherefore also He says to Moses in Exodus: “I will send forth My angel before thee; for I will not go up with thee, because thou art a stiff-necked people.”178<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2. And not only so, but the Lord also showed that certain precepts were enacted for them by Moses, on account of their hardness [of heart], and because of their unwillingness to be obedient, when, on their saying to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a writing of divorcement, and to send away a wife? “He said to them, “Because of the hardness of your hearts he permitted these things to you; but from the beginning it was not so; “179 thus exculpating Moses as a faithful servant, but acknowledging one God, who from the beginning made male and female, and reproving them as hard-hearted and disobedient. And therefore it was that they received from Moses this law of divorcement, adapted to their hard nature. But why say I these things concerning the Old Testament? For in the New also are the apostles found doing this very thing, on the ground which has been mentioned, Paul plainly declaring, But these things I say, not the Lord.”180 And again: “But this I speak by permission, not by commandment.”181 And again: “Now, as concerning virgins, I have no commandment from the Lord; yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.”182 But further, in another place he says: “That Satan tempt you not for your incontinence.”183 If, therefore, even in the New Testament, the apostles are found granting certain precepts in consideration of human infirmity, because of the incontinence of some, lest such persons, having grown obdurate, and despairing altogether of their salvation, should become apostates from God,-it ought not to be wondered at, if also in the Old Testament the same God permitted similar indulgences for the benefit of His people, drawing them on by means of the ordinances already mentioned, so that they might obtain the gift of salvation through them, while they obeyed the Decalogue, and being restrained by Him, should not revert to idolatry, nor apostatize from God, but learn to love Him with the whole heart. And if certain persons, because of the disobedient and ruined Israelites, do assert that the giver (doctor) of the law was limited in power, they will find in our dispensation, that “many are called, but few chosen; “184 and that there are those who inwardly are wolves, yet wear sheep’s clothing in the eyes of the world (foris); and that God has always preserved freedom, and the power of self-government in man,185 while at the same time He issued His own exhortations, in order that those who do not obey Him should be righteously judged (condemned) because they have not obeyed Him; and that those who have obeyed and believed on Him should be honoured with immortality.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Chapter XVI.-Perfect Righteousness Was Conferred Neither by Circumcision Nor by Any Other Legal Ceremonies. The Decalogue, However, Was Not Cancelled by Christ, But is Always in Force: Men Were Never Released from Its Commandments.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1. Moreover, we learn from the Scripture itself, that God gave circumcision, not as the completer of righteousness, but as a sign, that the race of Abraham might continue recognisable. For it declares: “God said unto Abraham, Every male among you shall be circumcised; and ye shall circumcise the flesh of your foreskins, as a token of the covenant between Me and you.”186 This same does Ezekiel the prophet say with regard to the Sabbaths: “Also I gave them My Sabbaths, to be a sign between Me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord, that sanctify them.”187 And in Exodus, God says to Moses: “And ye shall observe My Sabbaths; for it shall be a sign between Me and you for your generations.”188 These things, then, were given for a sign; but the signs were not unsymbolical, that is, neither unmeaning nor to no purpose, inasmuch as they were given by a wise Artist; but the circumcision after the flesh typified that after the Spirit. For “we,” says the apostle, “have been circumcised with the circumcision made without hands.”189 And the prophet declares, “Circumcise the hardness of your heart.”190 But the Sabbaths taught that we should continue day by day in God’s service.191 “For we have been counted,” says the Apostle Paul, “all the day long as sheep for the slaughter; “192 that is, consecrated [to God], and ministering continually to our faith, and persevering in it, and abstaining from all avarice, and not acquiring or possessing treasures upon earth.193 Moreover, the Sabbath of God (requietio Dei), that is, the kingdom, was, as it were, indicated by created things; in which [kingdom], the man who shall have persevered in serving God (Deo assistere) shall, in a state of rest, partake of God’s table.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2. And that man was not justified by these things, but that they were given as a sign to the people, this fact shows,-that Abraham himself, without circumcision and without observance of Sabbaths, “believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness; and he was called the friend of God.”194 Then, again, Lot, without circumcision, was brought out from Sodom, receiving salvation from God. So also did Noah, pleasing God, although he was uncircumcised, receive the dimensions [of the ark], of the world of the second race [of men]. Enoch, too, pleasing God, without circumcision, discharged the office of God’s legate to the angels although he was a man, and was translated, and is preserved until now as a witness of the just judgment of God, because the angels when they had transgressed fell to the earth for judgment, but the man who pleased [God] was translated for salvation.195 Moreover, all the rest of the multitude of those righteous men who lived before Abraham, and of those patriarchs who preceded Moses, were justified independently of the things above mentioned, and without the law of Moses. As also Moses himself says to the people in Deuteronomy: “The Lord thy God formed a covenant in Horeb. The Lord formed not this covenant with your fathers, but for you.”196<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">3. Why, then, did the Lord not form the covenant for the fathers? Because “the law was not established for righteous men.”197 But the righteous fathers had the meaning of the Decalogue written in their hearts and souls,198 that is, they loved the God who made them, and did no injury to their neighbour. There was therefore no occasion that they should be cautioned by prohibitory mandates (correptoriis literis),199 because they had the righteousness of the law in themselves. But when this righteousness and love to God had passed into oblivion, and became extinct in Egypt, God did necessarily, because of His great goodwill to men, reveal Himself by a voice, and led the people with power out of Egypt, in order that man might again become the disciple and follower of God; and He afflicted those who were disobedient, that they should not contemn their Creator; and He fed them with manna, that they might receive food for their souls (uti rationalem acciperent escam); as also Moses says in Deuteronomy: “And fed thee with manna, which thy fathers did not know, that thou mightest know that man cloth not live by bread alone; but by every word of God proceeding out of His mouth doth man live.”200 And it enjoined love to God, and taught just dealing towards our neighbour, that we should neither be unjust nor unworthy of God, who prepares man for His friendship through the medium of the Decalogue, and likewise for agreement with his neigbbour,-matters which did certainly profit man himself; God, however, standing in no need of anything from man.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">4. And therefore does the Scripture say, “These words the Lord spake to all the assembly of the children of Israel in the mount, and He added no more; “201 for, as I have already observed, He stood in need of nothing from them. And again Moses says: “And now Israel, what cloth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear the Lord thy God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul? “202 Now these things did indeed make man glorious, by supplying what was wanting to him, namely, the friendship of God; but they profited God nothing, for God did not at all stand in need of man’s love. For the glory of God was wanting to man, which he could obtain in no other way than by serving God. And therefore Moses says to them again: “Choose life, that thou mayest live, and thy seed, to love the Lord thy God, to hear His voice, to cleave unto Him; for this is thy life, and the length of thy days.”203 Preparing man for this life, the Lord Himself did speak in His own person to all alike the words of the Decalogue; and therefore, in like manner, do they remain permanently with us,204 receiving by means of His advent in the flesh, extension and increase, but not abrogation.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">5. The laws of bondage, however, were one by one promulgated to the people by Moses, suited for their instruction or for their punishment, as Moses himself declared: “And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments.”205 These things, therefore, which were given for bondage, and for a sign to them, He cancelled by the new covenant of liberty. But He has increased and widened those laws which are natural, and noble, and common to all, granting to men largely and without grudging, by means of adoption, to know God the Father, and to love Him with the whole heart, and to follow His word unswervingly, while they abstain not only from evil deeds, but even from the desire after them. But He has also increased the feeling of reverence; for sons should have more veneration than slaves, and greater love for their father. And therefore the Lord says, “As to every idle word that men have spoken, they shall render an account for it in the day of judgment.”206 And, “he who has looked upon a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart; “207 and, “he that is angry with his brother without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment.”208 [All this is declared, ] that we may know that we shall give account to God not of deeds only, as slaves, but even of words and thoughts, as those who have truly received the power of liberty, in which [condition] a man is more severely tested, whether he will reverence, and fear, and love the Lord. And for this reason Peter says “that we have not liberty as a cloak of maliciousness,”209 but as the means of testing and evidencing faith.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Chapter XVII.-Proof that God Did Not Appoint the Levitical Dispensation for His Own Sake, or as Requiring Such Service; For He Does, in Fact, Need Nothing from Men.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1. Moreover, the prophets indicate in the fullest manner that God stood in no need of their slavish obedience, but that it was upon their own account that He enjoined certain observances in the law. And again, that God needed not their oblation, but [merely demanded it], on account of man himself who offers it, the Lord taught distinctly, as I have pointed out. For when He perceived them neglecting righteousness, and abstaining from the love of God, and imagining that God was to be propitiated by sacrifices and the other typical observances, Samuel did even thus speak to them: “God does not desire whole burnt-offerings and sacrifices, but He will have His voice to be hearkened to. Behold, a ready obedience is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.”210 David also says: “Sacrifice and oblation Thou didst not desire, but mine ears hast Thou perfected;211 burnt-offerings also for sin Thou hast not required.”212 He thus teaches them that God desires obedience, which renders them secure, rather than sacrifices and holocausts, which avail them nothing towards righteousness; and [by this declaration] he prophesies the new covenant at the same time. Still clearer, too, does he speak of these things in the fiftieth Psalm: “For if Thou hadst desired sacrifice, then would I have given it: Thou wilt not delight in burnt-offerings. The sacrifice of God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart the Lord will not despise.”213 Because, therefore, God stands in need of nothing, He declares in the preceding Psalm: “I will take no calves out of thine house, nor he-goats out of thy fold. For Mine are all the beasts of the earth, the herds and the oxen on the mountains: I know all the fowls of heaven, and the various tribes214 of the field are Mine. If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is Mine, and the fulness thereof. Shall I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats? “215 Then, lest it might be supposed that He refused these things in His anger, He continues, giving him (man) counsel: “Offer unto God the sacrifice of praise, and pay thy vows to the Most High; and call upon Me in the day of thy trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify Me; “216 rejecting, indeed, those things by which sinners imagined they could propitiate God, and showing that He does Himself stand in need of nothing; but He exhorts and advises them to those. things by which man is justified and draws nigh to God. This same declaration does Esaias make: “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the Lord. I am full.”217 And when He had repudiated holocausts, and sacrifices, and oblations, as likewise the new moons, and the sabbaths, and the festivals, and all the rest of the services accompanying these, He continues, exhorting them to what pertained to salvation: “Wash you, make you clean, take away wickedness from your hearts from before mine eyes: cease from your evil ways, learn to do well, seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow; and come, let us reason together, saith the Lord.”<br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">3. And again, when He points out that it was not for this that He led them out of Egypt, that they might offer sacrifice to Him, but that, forgetting the idolatry of the Egyptians, they should be able to hear the voice of the Lord, which was to them salvation and glory, He declares by this same Jeremiah: “Thus saith the Lord; Collect together your burnt-offerings with your sacrifices and eat flesh. For I spake not unto your fathers nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of Egypt, concerning burnt-offerings or sacrifices: but this word I commanded them, saying, Hear My voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be My people; and walk in all My ways whatsoever I have commanded you, that it may be well with you. But they obeyed not, nor hearkened; but walked in the imaginations of their own evil heart, and went backwards, and not forwards.”221 And again, when He declares by the same man, “But let him that glorieth, glory in this, to understand and know that I am the Lord, who doth exercise loving-kindness, and righteousness, and judgment in the earth; “222 He adds, “For in these things I delight, says the Lord,” but not in sacrifices, nor in holocausts, nor in oblations. For the people did not receive these precepts as of primary importance (principaliter), but as secondary, and for the reason already alleged, as Isaiah again says: “Thou hast not [brought to] Me the sheep of thy holocaust, nor in thy sacrifices hast thou glorified Me: thou hast not served Me in sacrifices, nor in [the matter of] frankincense hast thou done anything laboriously; neither hast thou bought for Me incense with money, nor have I desired the fat of thy sacrifices; but thou hast stood before Me in thy sins and in thine iniquities.”223 He says, therefore, “Upon this man will I look, even upon him that is humble, and meek, and who trembles at My words.”224 “For the fat and the fat flesh shall not take away from thee thine unrighteousness.”225 “This is the fast which I have chosen, saith the Lord. Loose every band of wickedness, dissolve the connections of violent agreements, give rest to those that are shaken, and cancel every unjust document. Deal thy bread to the hungry willingly, and lead into thy house the roofless stranger. If thou hast seen the naked, cover him, and thou shalt not despise those of thine own flesh and blood (domesticos seminis tui). Then shall thy morning light break forth, and thy health shall spring forth more speedily; and righteousness shall go before thee, and the glory of the Lord shall surround thee: and whilst thou an yet speaking, I will say, Behold, here I am.”226 And Zechariah also, among the twelve prophets, pointing out to the people the will of God, says: “These things does the Lord Omnipotent declare: Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassion each one to his brother. And oppress not the widow, and the orphan, and the proselyte, and the poor; and let none imagine evil against your brother in his heart.”227 And again, he says: “These are the words which ye shall utter. Speak ye the truth every man to his neighbour, and execute peaceful judgment in your gates, and let none of you imagine evil in his heart against his brother, and ye shall not love false swearing: for all these things I hate, saith the Lord Almighty.”228 Moreover, David also says in like manner: “What man is there who desireth life, and would fain see good days? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips that they speak no guile. Shun evil, and do good: seek peace, and pursue it.”229<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">5. Again, giving directions to His disciples to offer to God the first-fruits232 of His own, created things-not as if He stood in need of them, but that they might be themselves neither unfruitful nor ungrateful-He took that created thing, bread, and gave thanks, and said, “This is My body.”233 And the cup likewise, which is part of that creation to which we belong, He confessed to be His blood, and taught the new oblation of the new covenant; which the Church receiving from the apostles, offers to God throughout all the world, to Him who gives us as the means of subsistence the first-fruits of His own gifts in the New Testament, concerning which Malachi, among the twelve prophets, thus spoke beforehand: “I have no pleasure in you, saith the Lord Omnipotent, and I will not accept sacrifice at your hands. For from the rising of the sun, unto the going down [of the same], My name is glorified among the Gentiles, and in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure sacrifice; for great is My name among the Gentiles, saith the Lord Omnipotent; “234 -indicating in the plainest manner, by these words, that the former people [the Jews] shall indeed cease to make offerings to God, but that in every place sacrifice shall be offered to Him, and that a pure one; and His name is glorified among the Gentiles.235<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">6. But what other name is there which is glorified among the Gentiles than that of our Lord, by whom the Father is glorified, and man also? And because it is [the name] of His own Son, who was made man by Him, He calls it His own. Just as a king, if he himself paints a likeness of his son, is right in calling this likeness his own, for both these reasons, because it is [the likeness] of his son, and because it is his own production; so also does the Father confess the name of Jesus Christ, which is throughout all the world glorified in the Church, to be His own, both because it is that of His Son, and because He who thus describes it gave Him for the salvation of men. Since, therefore, the name of the Son belongs to the Father, and since in the omnipotent God the Church makes offerings through Jesus Christ, He says well on both these grounds, “And in every place incense is offered to My name, and a pure sacrifice.” Now John, in the Apocalypse, declares that the “incense” is “the prayers of the saints.”236<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1. The oblation of the Church, therefore, which the Lord gave instructions to be offered throughout all the world, is accounted with God a pure sacrifice, and is acceptable to Him; not that He stands in need of a sacrifice from us, but that he who offers is himself glorified in what he does offer, if his gift be accepted. For by the gift both honour and affection are shown forth towards the King; and the Lord, wishing us to offer it in all simplicity and innocence, did express Himself thus: “Therefore, when thou offerest thy gift upon the altar, and shalt remember that thy brother hath ought against thee, leave thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then return and offer thy gift.”237 We are bound, therefore, to offer to God the first-fruits of His creation, as Moses also says, “Thou shalt not appear in the presence of the Lord thy God empty; “238 so that man, being accounted as grateful, by those things in which he has shown his gratitude, may receive that honour which flows from Him.239<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2. And the class of oblations in general has not been set aside; for there were both oblations there [among the Jews], and there are oblations here [among the Christians]. Sacrifices there were among the people; sacrifices there are, too, in the Church: but the species alone has been changed, inasmuch as the offering is now made, not by slaves, but by freemen. For the Lord is [ever] one and the same; but the character of a servile oblation is peculiar [to itself], as is also that of freemen, in order that, by the very oblations, the indication of liberty may be set forth. For with Him there is nothing purposeless, nor without signification, nor without design. And for this reason they (the Jews) had indeed the tithes of their goods consecrated to Him, but those who have received liberty set aside all their possessions for the Lord’s purposes, bestowing joyfully and freely not the less valuable portions of their property, since they have the hope of better things [hereafter]; as that poor widow acted who cast all her living into the treasury of God.240<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">3. For at the beginning God had respect to the gifts of Abel, because he offered with single-mindedness and righteousness; but He had no respect unto the offering of Cain, because his heart was divided with envy and malice, which he cherished against his brother, as God says when reproving his hidden [thoughts], “Though thou offerest rightly, yet, if thou dost not divide rightly, hast thou not sinned? Be at rest; “241 since God is not appeased by sacrifice. For if any one shall endeavour to offer a sacrifice merely to outward appearance, unexceptionably, in due order, and according to appointment, while in his soul he does not assign to his neighbour that fellowship with him which is right and proper, nor is under the fear of God;-he who thus cherishes secret sin does not deceive God by that sacrifice which is offered correctly as to outward appearance; nor will such an oblation profit him anything, but [only] the giving up of that evil which has been conceived within him, so that sin may not the more, by means of the hypocritical action, render him the destroyer of himself.242 Wherefore did the Lord also declare: “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres. For the sepulchre appears beautiful outside, but within it is full of dead men’s bones, and all uncleanness; even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of wickedness and hypocrisy.”243 For while they were thought to offer correctly so far as outward appearance went, they had in themselves jealousy like to Cain; therefore they slew the Just One, slighting the counsel of the Word, as did also Cain. For [God] said to him, “Be at rest; “but he did not assent. Now what else is it to “be at rest” than to forego purposed violence? And saying similar things to these men, He declares: “Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse that which is within the cup, that the outside may be clean also.”244 And they did not listen to Him. For Jeremiah says, “Behold, neither thine eyes nor thy heart are good; but [they are turned] to thy covetousness, and to shed innocent blood, and for injustice, and for man-slaying, that thou mayest do it.”245 And again Isaiah saith, “Ye have taken counsel, but not of Me; and made covenants, [but] not by My Spirit.”246 In order, therefore, that their inner wish and thought, being brought to light, may show that God is without blame, and worketh no evil-that God who reveals what is hidden [in the heart], but who worketh not evil-when Cain was by no means at rest, He saith to him: “To thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.”247 Thus did He in like manner speak to Pilate: “Thou shouldest have no power at all against Me, unless it were given thee from above; “248 God always giving up the righteous one [in this life to suffering], that he, having been tested by what he suffered and endured, may [at last] be accepted; but that the evildoer, being judged by the actions he has performed, may be rejected. Sacrifices, therefore, do not sanctify a man, for God stands in no need of sacrifice; but it is the conscience of the offerer that sanctifies the sacrifice when it is pure, and thus moves God to accept [the offering] as from a friend. “But the sinner,” says He, “who kills a calf [in sacrifice] to Me, is as if he slew a dog.”249<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">4. Inasmuch, then, as the Church offers with single-mindedness, her gift is justly reckoned a pure sacrifice with God. As Paul also says to the Philippians, “I am full, having received from Epaphroditus the things that were sent from you, the odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, pleasing to God.”250 For it behoves us to make an oblation to God, and in all things to be found grateful to God our Maker, in a pure mind, and in faith without hypocrisy, in well-grounded hope, in fervent love, offering the first-fruits of His own created things. And the Church alone offers this pure oblation to the Creator, offering to Him, with giving of thanks, [the things taken] from His creation. But the Jews do not offer thus: for their hands are full of blood; for they have not received the Word, through whom it is offered to God.251 Nor, again, do any of the conventicles (synagogae) of the heretics [offer this]. For some, by maintaining that the Father is different from the Creator, do, when they offer to Him what belongs to this creation of ours, set Him forth as being covetous of another’s property, and desirous of what is not His own. Those, again, who maintain that the things around us originated from apostasy, ignorance, and passion, do, while offering unto Him the fruits of ignorance, passion, and apostasy, sin against their Father, rather subjecting Him to insult than giving Him thanks. But how can they be consistent with themselves, [when they say] that the bread over which thanks have been given is the body of their Lord,252 and the cup His blood, if they do not call Himself the Son of the Creator of the world, that is, His Word, through whom the wood fructifies, and the fountains gush forth, and the earth gives “first the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear.”253<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">5. Then, again, how can they say that the flesh, which is nourished with the body of the Lord and with His blood, goes to corruption, and does not partake of life? Let them, therefore, either alter their opinion, or cease from offering the things just mentioned.254 But our opinion is in accordance with the Eucharist, and the Eucharist in turn establishes our opinion. For we offer to Him His own, announcing consistently the fellowship and union of the flesh and Spirit.255 For as the bread, which is produced from the earth, when it receives the invocation of God, is no longer common bread,256 but the Eucharist, consisting of two realities, earthly and heavenly; so also our bodies, when they receive the Eucharist, are no longer corruptible, having the hope of the resurrection to eternity.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">6. Now we make offering to Him, not as though He stood in need of it, but rendering thanks for His gift,257 and thus sanctifying what has been created. For even as God does not need our possessions, so do we need to offer something to God; as Solomon says: “He that hath pity upon the poor, lendeth unto the Lord.”258 For God, who stands in need of nothing, takes our good works to Himself for this purpose, that He may grant us a recompense of His own good things, as our Lord says: “Come, ye blessed of My Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you. For I was an hungered, and ye gave Me to eat: I was thirsty, and ye gave Me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took Me in: naked, and ye clothed Me; sick, and ye visited Me; in prison, and ye came to Me.”259 As, therefore, He does not stand in need of these [services], yet does desire that we should render them for our own benefit, lest we be unfruitful; so did the Word give to the people that very precept as to the making of oblations, although He stood in no need of them, that they might learn to serve God: thus is it, therefore, also His will that we, too, should offer a gift at the altar, frequently and without intermission. The altar, then, is in heaven260 (for towards that place are our prayers and oblations directed); the temple likewise [is there], as John says in the Apocalypse, “And the temple of God was opened: “261 the tabernacle also: “For, behold,” He says, “the tabernacle of God, in which He will dwell with men.”</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Ahiyah Asher Ahiyah I Am Who I Am Yahweh El Olam eth Abba Our Father and Son Jesus Christ our Only Lord and Saviour and Ruach Yahweh Holy Spirit our Paraclete, Pantocrator Omniscient Ubiquituos, Yahweh Elohim eth Creator and ruler of all the Lord thy God Incarnate, subsuming flesh of all men, Jesus Christ our Only Lord and Saviour, 70 generations from Adam and the beginning of all creation through Whom, the Word of God, all that has been created was created and without Whom was nothing that has been created, Who hast commanded all men:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1. “Thou shalt not have strange gods before Me;<br />
2. Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain;<br />
3. Remember thou keep holy the Sabbath Day;<br />
4. Honor thy Father and thy Mother;<br />
5. Thou shalt not kill;<br />
6. Thou shalt not commit adultery;<br />
7. Thou shalt not steal;<br />
8. Thou shalt not bear false witness;<br />
9. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife;<br />
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s goods;<br />
3. “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<br />
4. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth.<br />
5. Blessed are they who mourn, for they shall be comforted.<br />
6. Blessed are they who hunger and thirst for justice, for they shall be satisfied.<br />
7. Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.<br />
8. Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God<br />
9. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.<br />
10. Blessed are they who suffer persecution for justice’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.<br />
11. Blessed are you when men reproach you, and persecute you, and, speaking falsely, say all manner of evil against you, for my sake.<br />
12. Rejoice and exult, because your reward is great in heaven; for so did they persecute the prophets who were before you.<br />
“Blessed are you poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.<br />
21. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you shall be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now, for you shall laugh.<br />
22. Blessed shall you be when men hate you; and when they shut you out and reproach you, and reject your name as evil, because of the Son of Man.<br />
23. Rejoice on that day and exult, for behold your reward is great in heaven. For in the selfsame manner their fathers used to treat the prophets.<br />
24. But woe to you rich! for you are now having your comfort.<br />
25. Woe to you who are filled for you shall hunger.<br />
Woe to you, who laugh now! For you shall mourn and weep.<br />
26. Woe to you when all men speak well of you! In the selfsame manner their fathers used to treat the false prophets!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The Disciples Compared to Salt and Light<br />
13. “You are the salt of the earth; but if the salt loses its strength, what shall be salted with it? It is no longer of any use but to be thrown out and trodden underfoot by men.<br />
14. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.<br />
15. Neither do men light a lamp and put it under the measure, but upon the lamp-stand, so as to give light to all in the house.<br />
16. Even so let your light shine before men, in order that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.</span></div>
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17. “Do not think that I have come to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to destroy, but to fulfill.<br />
18. For amen I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, not one jot or one tittle shall be lost from the Law till all things have been accomplished.<br />
19. Therefore whoever does away with one of these least commandments, and so teaches men, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven; but whoever carries them out and teaches them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.<br />
20. For I say to you that unless your justice exceeds that of the Scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter the kingdom of heaven.<br />
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart and with thy whole soul with thy whole depth of being and with thy whole strength. 38. This is the greatest and the first commandment.<br />
39. And the second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.<br />
40. On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.<br />
I say it now.<br />
34. A new commandment I give you, that you love one another: that as I have loved you, you also love one another. 35. By this will all men know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.<br />
Forgive us our sins as we also do forgive those who trespass against us”<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Blessed art Thou, O Lord, teach us Thy statutes and therefore remember us when Thou comest in Thy Kingdom<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Blessed art Thou, O Lord, grant us understanding of Thy statutes and therefore remember us when Thou comest in Thy Kingdom<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Blessed art Thou, O Lord, enlighten us by Thy statutes and by our obedience of them therefore remember us when Thou comest in Thy Kingdom.</span></div>
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5 ¶ And Jesus answering, began to say to them: Take heed lest any man deceive you. (DRV)</span></div>
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3 ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for unless there come a revolt first, and the man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition (DRV)</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The diabolically absurd idea of ecumenism began in the late 6th (500’s) A.D. century in the Eastern Church. Later, the Pope got jealous and decided he wanted it for himself. In all cases it is the example of men bowing before the temptation of Satan. The devil even tried to tempt Jesus Christ with this but Jesus totally rejected this temptation of the devil – see Gospel of St. Luke Chapter 4. It was in the East as well that the pagan worship of images was promoted throughout the centuries, while in the West the use of images to teach but not to worship them was the tradition. It was also in the East that the ecumenical idea of a universal bishop was thought up.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">See the letters (epistles) of Pope St. Gregory the Great (died 604 A.D.)concerning the “proud and pestiferous title of ecumenical” and “images” and the Patriarch of Constantinople calling himself the universal (ecumenical) Bishop.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">EPISTLE LXVIII.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">TO EUSEBIUS OF THESSALONICA.<br />
Be it known then to your Fraternity that John, formerly bishop of the city of Constantinople, against God, against the peace of the Church, to the contempt and injury of all priests, exceeded the bounds of modesty and of his own measure, and unlawfully usurped in synod the proud and pestiferous title of ecumenical, that is to say, universal. When our predecessor Pelagius of blessed memory became aware of this, he annulled by a fully valid censure all the proceedings of that same synod,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">TO SERENUS BISHOP OF MASSILIA, (Marceilles).<br />
Furthermore we notify to you that it has come to our ears that your Fraternity, seeing certain adorers of images, broke and threw down these same images in Churches. And we commend you indeed for your zeal against anything made with hands being an object of adoration; but we signify to you that you ought not to have broken these images. For pictorial representation is made use of in Churches for this reason; that such as are ignorant of letters may at least read by looking at the walls what they cannot read in books. Your Fraternity therefore should have both preserved the images and prohibited the people from adoration of them, to the end that both those who are ignorant of letters might have wherewith to gather a knowledge of the history, and that the people might by no means sin by adoration of a pictorial representation.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">EPISTLE XL.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">TO CYRIACUS, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE.<br />
Gregory to Cyriacus, &c.<br />
Observing diligently, most dear brother, how great is the virtue of peace from the Lord’s voice, which says, My peace I give unto you (John. xiv. 27), it becomes us so to abide in the love thereof as in no wise to give place to discord. But, since we cannot otherwise live in its root except by retaining in mind and in deed the humility which the very author of peace has taught, we entreat you with befitting charity, that, treading down with the foot of your heart the profane elation which is always hostile to souls, you make haste to remove from the midst of the Church the offence of a perverse and proud title (ecumenical [universal] Bishop – see above EPISTLE LXVIII), lest you should possibly be found divided from the society of our peace. But let there be in us one spirit, one mind, one charity, one bond in Christ, who has willed us to be his members. For let your Holiness consider how hard it is, how indecent, how cruel, how alien from the aim of a priest, not to have that peace which you preach to others, and so abstain from offending your brethren out of pride. But study this rather, how you may prostrate with the sword of humility the author of vain and profitless elation, to the end that in such a victory the grace of the Holy Spirit may claim you as a habitation for Himself, so that what is written may be plainly fulfilled in you; the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are (2 Cor. 6:16)<br />
We commend to you in all things the bearer of these presents, our most beloved common son, the deacon Boniface, that in whatsoever may be needful he may find, as is becoming, the succour of your Holiness.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The Signs of the Last Day<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Mark 13:21. “And then, if anyone say to you,<br />
‘Behold, here is the Christ; behold, there he is,’ do not believe it. 22. For false christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect. 23. Be on your guard therefore; behold, I have told you all things beforehand.<br />
24. “But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun will be darkened,<br />
and the moon will not give her light, 25. and the stars of heaven will be falling, and the powers that are in heaven will be shaken. 26. And then they will see the Son of Man coming upon clouds with great power and majesty. 27. And then he will send forth his angels, and will gather his elect from the four winds, from the uttermost parts of the earth to the uttermost parts of heaven.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">afflict you, 7. and to give you who are afflicted rest with us at the revelation of the Lord Jesus who will come from heaven with the angels of his power, 8. in flaming fire to inflict punishment on those who do not know God, and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. 9. These will be punished with eternal ruin, away from the face of the Lord and the glory of his power,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">THE GOSPEL: THE POWER OF GOD FOR THE SALVATION OF<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">I. Humanity Without Christ<br />
The Pagans Adore Idols</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Romans 1:</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and wickedness of those men who in wickedness hold back the truth of God, 19. seeing that what may be known about God is manifest to them. For God has manifested it to them. 20. For since the creation of the world his invisible attributes are clearly seen – his everlasting power also and divinity-being understood through the things that are made. And so they are without excuse, 21. seeing that, although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give thanks, but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless minds have been darkened. 22. For while professing to be wise, they have become fools, 23. and they have changed the glory of the incorruptible for an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four footed beasts and creeping things.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">24. Therefore God has given them up in the lustful desires of their heart to uncleanness, so that they dishonor their own bodies among themselves- 25. they who exchange the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever, amen.<br />
26. For this cause God has given them up to shameful lusts; for their women have exchanged the natural use for that which is against nature 27. and in like manner the men also having abandoned the natural use of the woman, have burned in their lusts one towards another, men with men doing shameless things and receiving in themselves the fitting recompense of their perversity. 28. And as they have resolved against possessing the knowledge of God, God has given them up to a reprobate sense, so that they do what is not fitting, 29. being filled with all iniquity, malice, immorality, avarice, wickedness; being full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity being whisperers, 30. detractors, hateful to God, irreverent, proud, haughty, plotters of evil disobedient to parents, 31. foolish, dissolute, without affection, without fidelity, without mercy. 32. Although they have known the ordinance of God, they have not understood that those who practise such things are deserving of death. And not only do they do these things, but they applaud others doing them.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">EACH OF THE FOLLOWING HAD A DIVINE GOD KING TO RULE THEM. SIX OF THE FOLLOWING HAD SEVEN MOUNTAINS WHICH WERE SELECTED AS THE MAIN CENTERS OF THE DEVIL’S PAGAN RELIGION OF THAT AREA; ONE, JERUSALEM, HAD SEVEN MOUNTAINS DEDICATED TO THE WORSHIP OF THE TRUE GOD, BUT THEY CRUCIFIED HIM WHEN HE CAME IN THE FLESH (JESUS CHRIST). ONLY ONE, JERUSALEM, SAW THE FIRST ADVENT OF THE ONLY TRUE DIVINE GOD KING, THE BLESSED AND ONLY SOVEREIGN KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS JESUS CHRIST (THEY CRUCIFIED HIM BECAUSE HE ALLOWED IT FOR OUR SALVATION). ALL WILL SEE HIS SECOND ADVENT FROM HEAVEN WITH HIS MIGHTY ANGELS IN FLAMING FIRE TAKING VENGEANCE ON THOSE WHO KNOW NOT GOD (PAGANS) AND WHO DO NOT OBEY OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST (FALSE CHRISTIANS).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1} BABEL</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> (MESOPOTAMIA) </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1] TELL EL OBEID (TOWER OF BABEL), </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2] TELL UQUAIR, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">3] TELL AGRAB, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">4] TELL ASMAR, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">5] TELL</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> MATARRAH, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">6] QAL’AH SHERGAT (ASHUR),</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> 7] CALAH (NIMRUD) NEAR NINEVEH</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2} EGYPT PYRAMIDS – </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1] ZAWAIYET EL ARYAN,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> 2] SEKHEMKHET (AT SAKKARA – KING IMHOTEP – EARLIEST), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">3] MEDUM (NEAR GHIZA), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">4] BENT PYRAMID AT DAHSUR, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">5] STRAIGHT PYRAMID AT DAHSUR, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">6] GREAT PYRAMID AT GHIZA (KHUFU’S), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">7] SECOND PYRAMID AT GHIZA – KHAFRE’S, CHEPHREN)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">4} PERSIA</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> (RE: INDIA) THE ELBURZ (ALBURZ) MOUNTAINS; RESHTEH-YE ALBORZ, ELEVATIONS (IN FEET) – </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1] THE CITADEL, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2] ACRA, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">3] TEMPLE MOUNT</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> 4] MOUNT OF OLIVES, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">5] MT. SCOPUS, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">6] MT. ZION</span><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> 7] GOLGOTHA (HEROD WAS STRUCK DOWN FOR CLAIMING THE HONOR OF BEING A GOD KING SEE THE ACTS OF THE APOSTLES)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">6} ROME</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1] JANICULUM (THE VATICAN IS ON THE LOWER SLOPE), </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2] AVENTINE, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">3] PALATINE (WITH THE CAPITOLINE HILL AND THE TIBURTINE ORACLE; THE TIBURTINE, THE CUMAEAN AND THE DELPHIC ORACLE WERE THE THREE MOST IMPORTANT SIBYLS IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE),</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> 4] CAELIAN, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">5] ESQUILINE, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">6] VIMINAL,</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> 7] QUIRINAL</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">7} CHINA</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1] TAI SHAN (THE OLDEST PLACE OF WORSHIP IN CHINA CLOSELY CONNECTED TO THE EMPEROR AS THE “SON OF HEAVEN”), </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">2] TIEN T’AI SHAN (THE MOST IMPORTANT IN BUDDHIST HISTORY IN CHINA), </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">3] P’U–T’O SHAN, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">4] CHIU-HU SHAN,</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"> 5] WU-T’AI SHAN, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">6] O-MEI SHAN, </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;">7] SANWEI SHAN NEAR TUN-HUANG (DUNHUANG)</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.4em;"> </span></blockquote>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">THESE ABOVE WERE/ARE ALL PLACES OF IDOLATROUS WORSHIP OF FALSE GODS/GODDESSES AND ALL OF THE FALSE WORSHIP INVOLVED BLACK MAGIC AND SORCERY WHICH IS THE HALLMARK OF ALL PAGAN WORSHIP AND DIRECTLY VIOLATES DEUTERONOMY 18:10,11 AND IS DAMNED. FOR INSTANCE, ROME HAD ZEUS AND THE VIRGIN GODDESS OF BLACK MAGIC, FORTUNA OR TYCHE INCLUDING BY SYNCHRETISM HECATE, ISIS, MENE ETC., WORSHIPPED BY SORCERY, MAGICAL ENGRAVING, ENCHANTING TYING MAGIC SPELLS/KNOTS/CHARMS JOINED TO IDOLS OFFERING UNLAWFUL HUMAN AND ANIMAL SACRIFICES TO IDOLS AND THE FALSE GODS BEHIND THEM, ESPECIALLY FALSE PROPHECY: THE SIX ELEMENT DRAGON OUT OF THE MOUTH OF IT AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, ‘O DIABOLOS HERMAPHRODITE BEAST OUT OF THE MOUTH OF IT AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT, THE FALSE PROPHET OF THE SATA-NAS OUT OF THE MOUTH OF IT AN UNCLEAN SPIRIT</span></div>
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QECEM 7081 890c<br />
ANAN 6049 778a, 1107c<br />
NACHASH 5172 638c<br />
KASHAPH 3784 506c<br />
(CHARTOM FROM EXODUS 7:22) 2748 355a<br />
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SHA’AL 7592 981b, 1114a; (SHA’AL, DARASH) OWB 178 15a<br />
(SHA’AL, DARASH) YIDDE’ONIY 3049 396b<br />
DARASH; MUWTH 1875; 4191 201d, 205a; 559b, 607a,<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">1] BUYUK AGRI DAGI (ARARAT WHERE THE ARK IS TODAY) 16946 FEET EL.<br />
2] HAMA DAGI 10640 FEET ELEV.<br />
3] TENDUREK DAGI 11621 FEET ELEV.<br />
4] ALA DAG 10994 FEET ELEV.<br />
5] MENGENE DAGI 11811 FEET ELEV.<br />
6] MOR DAG 12500 FEET ELEV.<br />
7] CILO DAG 13675 FEET ELEV.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">All Holy and Only True and Living Lord God of Adam Enoch Noah Abraham Isaac Jacob and Israel and Elijah and Your holy angels Michael and Gabriel with and by the prayer of all Your elect angels and saints for and with us unceasingly Vindicate us O God and distinguish our cause from an unholy nation and the unjust and deceitful man dying let them die let the evil recoil upon our enemies O Lord all spirits visible and invisible of the seven unholy empires babel egypt crete persia jerusalem rome china</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">O LORD CHRIST JESUS BY YOUR MOST HOLY CROSS HOLY BLOOD HOLY SPIRIT OF YOU THE SON OF THE FATHER INFINITELY PURE AND UNDEFILED THE ONLY FIRST BORN FROM THE DEAD THE ONLY ONE RESURRECTED ASCENDED ASSUMED IN THE FLESH SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD OUR FATHER IN THE THIRD HEAVEN IN THE UNITY AND POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD PANTOCRATOR WITH AND BY THE PRAYER AND COMPANY OF ALL YOUR ELECT ANGELS AND SAINTS FOR AND WITH US UNCEASINGLY ALL SPIRITS VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE BIND AND CAST FROM US UNCEASINGLY OF ALL:</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><b>QECEM</b> [DIVINATION] (VALENTINIAN GNOSTICISM) MESOPOTAMIAN CHALDAEANS, APOSTASY OF EGYPT – SYNTHETIC ORTHODOX GNOSTIC CHURCH WHICH IS APOSTATE CHRISTIANITY – NEW AGE RELIGION</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><b>ANAN</b> [AUGURY] (SIBYLLINE ORACLES) APOSTASY OF CRETE AND GREECE INCLUDING EVOLUTION – NEW AGE RELIGION</span></div>
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46. While he was still speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brethren were standing outside, seeking to speak to him. 47. And someone said to him, “Behold, thy mother and thy brethren are standing outside, seeking thee.” 48. But he answered and said to him who told him, “Who is my mother and who are my brethren?” 49. And stretching forth his hand towards his disciples, he said, “Behold my mother and my brethren! 50. For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, he is my brother and sister and mother.”</span></div>
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Those nations however, who did not of themselves raise up their eyes unto heaven, nor returned thanks to their Maker, nor wished to behold the light of truth, but who were like blind mice concealed in the depths of ignorance, the word justly reckons “as waste water from a sink, and as the turning-weight of a balance—in fact, as nothing;”<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">That before the Lord’s appearance Satan never dared to blaspheme God, inasmuch as he did not yet know his own sentence, because it was contained in parables and allegories; but that after the Lord’s appearance, when he had clearly ascertained from the words of Christ and His apostles that eternal fire has been prepared for him as he apostatized from God of his own free-will, and likewise for all who unrepentant continue in the apostasy, he now blasphemes, by means of such men, the Lord who brings judgment [upon him] as being already condemned, and imputes the guilt of his apostasy to his Maker, not to his own voluntary disposition. Just as it is with those who break the laws, when punishment overtakes them: they throw the blame upon those who frame the laws, but not upon themselves. In like manner do those men, filled with a satanic spirit, bring innumerable accusations against our Creator, who has both given to us the spirit of life, and established a law adapted for all; and they will not admit that the judgment of God is just. Wherefore also they set about imagining some other Father who neither cares about nor exercises a providence; and there is therefore in this beast (the Antichrist), when he comes, a recapitulation made of all sorts of iniquity and of every deceit, in order that all apostate power, flowing into and being shut up in him, may be sent into the furnace of fire. Fittingly, therefore, shall his name possess the number six hundred and sixty-six, since he sums up in his own person all the commixture of wickedness which took place previous to the deluge, due to the apostasy of the angels. For Noah was six hundred years old when the deluge came upon the earth, sweeping away the rebellious world, for the sake of that most infamous generation which lived in the times of Noah. And [Antichrist] also sums up every error of devised idols since the flood, together with the slaying of the prophets and the cutting off of the just. For that image which was set up by Nebuchadnezzar had indeed a height of sixty cubits, while the breadth was six cubits; on account of which Ananias, Azarias, and Misaël, when they did not worship it, were cast into a furnace of fire, pointing out prophetically, by what happened to them, the wrath against the righteous which shall arise towards the [time of the] end. For that image, taken as a whole, was a prefiguring of this man’s coming, decreeing that he should undoubtedly himself alone be worshipped by all men. Thus, then, the six hundred years of Noah, in whose time the deluge occurred because of the apostasy, and the number of the cubits of the image for which these just men were sent into the fiery furnace, do indicate the number of the name of that man in whom is concentrated the whole apostasy of six thousand years, and unrighteousness, and wickedness, and false prophecy, and deception; for which things’ sake a cataclysm of fire shall also come [upon the earth].</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">CONTENTS.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="background-color: white;">The following are the contents of the fifth book of the Refutation of all Heresies:(1 )</span></span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">What the assertions are of the Naasseni, who style themselves Gnostics, and that they advance those opinions which the Philosophers of the Greeks previously propounded, as well as those who have handed down mystical (rites), from (both of) whom the Naasseni taking occasion, have constructed their heresies.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">What is the doctrine of the Sethians,(2) and that, purloining(3) their theories from the wise men among the Greeks, they have patched together their own system out of shreds of opinion taken from Musaeus, and Linus, and Orpheus.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">I think that in the four preceding books I have very elaborately explained the opinions propounded by all the speculators among both Greeks and Barbarians, respecting the Divine Nature and the creation of the world; and not even have I omitted(4) the consideration of their systems of magic. So that I have for my readers undergone no ordinary amount of toil, in my anxiety to urge many forward into a desire of learning, and into stedfastness of knowledge in regard of the truth. It remains, therefore, to hasten on to the refutation of the heresies; but it is for the purpose of furnishing this (refutation) that we have put forward the statements already made by us. For from philosophers the heresiarchs deriving(5) starting-points, (and) like cobblers patching together, according to their own particular interpretation, the blunders of the ancients, have advanced them as novelties to those that are capable of being deceived, as we shall prove in the following books. In the remainder (of our work), the opportunity invites us to approach the treatment of our proposed subjects, <b>and to begin from those who have presumed to celebrate a serpent,(6) the originator of the error (in question), through certain expressions devised by the energy of his own (ingenuity). The priests, then, and champions of the system, have been first those who have been called Naasseni,(7) being so denominated from the Hebrew language, for the serpent is called naas ( 8 ) (in Hebrew). Subsequently, however, they have styled themselves Gnostics, </b>alleging that they alone have sounded the depths of knowledge. Now, from the system of these (speculators), many, detaching parts, have constructed a heresy which, though with several subdivisions, is essentially one, and they explain precisely the same (tenets); though conveyed under the guise of different opinions, as the following discussion, according as it progresses, will prove.</span><br />
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These (Naasseni), then, according to the system(1) advanced by them, magnify, (as the originating cause) of all things else, a man and a son of man. And this man is a hermaphrodite, and is denominated among them Adam; and hymns many and various are made to him. The hymns? however–to be brief–are couched among them in some such form as this: “From thee (comes) father, and through thee (comes) mother, two names immortal, progenitors of Aeons, O denizen of heaven, thou illustrious man.” But they divide him as Geryon(3) into three parts. For, say they, of this man one part is rational, another psychical, another earthly. And they suppose that the knowledge of him is the originating principle of the capacity for a knowledge of God, expressing themselves thus: “The originating principle of perfection is the knowledge(4) of man, while the knowledge of God is absolute perfection.” All these qualities, however–rational, and psychical, and earthly–have, (the Naassene) says, retired and descended into one man simultaneously–Jesus,(5) who was born of Mary. And these three men (the Naassene) says, are in the habit of speaking (through Jesus) at the same time together, each from their own proper substances to those peculiarly their own. For, according to these, there are three kinds of all existent things–angelic, psychical, earthly; and there are three churches–angelic, psychical, earthly; and the names of these are elect, called, captive.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">CHAP. II.–NAASSENI ASCRIBE THEIR SYSTEM, THROUGH MARIAMNE, TO JAMES THE LORD’S BROTHER; REALLY TRACEABLE TO THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES; THEIR PSYCHOLOGY AS GIVEN IN THE “GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS;” ASSYRIAN THEORY OF THE SOUL; THE SYSTEMS OF THE NAASSENI AND THE ASSYRIANS COMPARED; SUPPORT DRAWN BY THE NAASSENI FROM THE PHRYGIAN AND EGYPTIAN MYSTERIES; THE MYSTERIES OF ISIS; THESE MYSTERIES ALLEGORIZED BY THE NAASSENI.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">These are the heads of very numerous discourses which (the Naassene) asserts James the brother of the Lord handed down to Mariamne.(6) </span><br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">In order, then, that these impious (heretics) may no longer belie Mariamne or James, or the Saviour Himself, let us come to the mystic rites (whence these have derived their figment),–to a consideration, if it seems right, of both the Barbarian and Grecian (mysteries),–and let us see how these (heretics), collecting together the secret and ineffable mysteries of all the Gentiles, are uttering falsehoods against Christ, and are making dupes of those who are not acquainted with these orgies of the Gentiles. For since the foundation of the doctrine with them is the man Adam, and they say that concerning him it has been written, “Who shall declare his generation?”(7) learn how, partly deriving from the Gentiles the undiscoverable and diversified(8) generation of the man, they fictitiously apply it to Christ.</span><br />
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“Now earth,”(9) say the Greeks, “gave forth a man, (earth) first bearing a goodly gift, wishing to become mother not of plants devoid of sense, nor beasts without reason, but of a gentle and highly favoured creature.” “It, however, is difficult,” (the Naassene) says, “to ascertain whether Alalcomeneus,(10) first of men, rose upon the Boeotians over Lake Cephisus; or whether it were the Idaean Curetes, a divine race; or the Phrygian Corybantes, whom first the sun beheld springing up after the manner of the growth of trees; or whether Arcadia brought forth Pelasgus, of greater antiquity than the moon; or Eleusis (produced) Diaulus, an inhabitant of Raria; or Lemnus begot Cabirus, fair child of secret orgies; or Pallerie (brought forth) the Phlegraean Alcyoneus, oldest of the giants. But the Libyans affirm that Iarbas, first born, on emerging from arid plains, commenced eating the sweet acorn of Jupiter. But the Nile of the Egyptians,” he says, “up to this day fertilizing mud, (and therefore) generating animals, renders up living bodies, which acquire flesh from moist vapour.” The Assyrians, however, say that fish-eating Oannes(11) was (the first man, and) produced among themselves. The Chaldeans, however, say that this Adam is the man whom alone earth brought forth. And that he lay inanimate, unmoved, (and) still as a statue; being an image of him who is above, who is celebrated as the man Adam,(1) having been begotten by many powers, concerning whom individually is an enlarged discussion.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">In order, therefore, that finally the Great Man from above may be overpowered, “from whom,” as they say, “the whole family named on earth and in the heavens has been formed, to him was given also a soul, that through the soul he might suffer; and that the enslaved image may be punished of the Great and most Glorious and Perfect Man, for even so they call him. Again, then, they ask what is the soul, and whence, and what kind in its nature, that, coming to the man and moving him,(2) it should enslave and punish the image of the Perfect Man. They do not, however, (on this point) institute an inquiry from the Scriptures, but ask this (question) also from the mystic (rites). And they affirm that the soul is very difficult to discover, and hard to understand; for it does not remain in the same figure or the same form invariably, or in one passive condition, that either one could express it by a sign, or comprehend it substantially.</span><br />
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But they have these varied changes (of the soul) set down in the gospel inscribed “according to the Egyptians.”(3) They are, then, in doubt, as all the rest of men among the Gentiles, whether (the soul) is at all from something pre-existent, or whether from the self-produced (one),(4) or from a widespread Chaos. And first they fly for refuge to the mysteries of the Assyrians, perceiving the threefold division of the man; for the Assyrians first advanced the opinion that the soul has three parts, and yet (is essentially) one. For of soul, say they, is every nature desirous, and each in a different manner. For soul is cause of all things made; all things that are nourished, (the Naassene) says, and that grow, require soul. For it is not possible, he says, to obtain any nourishment or growth where soul is not present. For even stones, he affirms, are animated, for they possess what is capable of increase; but increase would not at any time take place without nourishment, for it is by accession that things which are being increased grow, but accession is the nourishment of things that are nurtured. Every nature, then, as of thins celestial and (the Naasene) says, of things celestial, and earthly, and infernal, desires a soul. And an entity of this description the Assyrians call Adonis or Endymion;(5) and when it is styled Adonis, Venus, he says, loves and desires the soul when styled by such a name. But Venus is production, according to them. But whenever Proserpine or Cora becomes enamoured with Adonis, there results, he says, a certain mortal soul separated from Venus (that is, from generation). But should the Moon pass into concupiscence for Endymion, and into love of her form, the nature,(6) he says, of the higher beings requires a soul likewise. But if, he says, the mother of the gods emasculate Attis,(7) and herself has this (person) as an object of affection, the blessed nature, he says, of the supernal and everlasting (beings) alone recalls the male power of the soul to itself.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">For (the Naassene) says, there is the hermaphrodite man. According to this account of theirs, the intercourse of woman with man is demonstrated, in conformity with such teaching, to be an exceedingly wicked and filthy (practice).( 8 ) For, says (the Naassene), Attis has been emasculated, that is, he has passed over from the earthly parts of the nether world to the everlasting substance above, where, he says, there is neither female or male,(9) but a new creature, (10) a new man, which is hermaphrodite. As to where, however, they use the expression “above,” I shall show when I come to the proper place (for treating this subject). But they assert that, by their account, they testify that Rhea is not absolutely isolated, but–for so I may say–the universal creature; and this they declare to be what is affirmed by the Word. “For the invisible things of Him are seen from the creation of the world, being understood by the things that are made by Him, even His eternal power and Godhead, for the purpose of leaving them without excuse. Wherefore, knowing God, they glorified Him not as God, nor gave Him thanks; but their foolish heart was rendered vain. For, professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into images of the likeness of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore also God gave them up unto vile affections; for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.” What, however, the natural use is, according to them, we shall afterwards declare. “And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly”–now the expression that which is unseemly signifies, according to these (Naasseni), the first and blessed substance, figureless, the cause of all figures to those things that are moulded into shapes,–”and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.”(1) For in these words which Paul has spoken they say the entire secret of theirs, and a hidden mystery of blessed pleasure, are comprised. For the promise of washing is not any other, according to them, than the introduction of him that is washed in, according to them, life-giving water, and anointed with ineffable(2) ointment (than his introduction) into unfading bliss<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">But they assert that not only is there in favour of their doctrine, testimony to be drawn from the mysteries of the Assyrians, but also from those of the Phrygians concerning the happy nature–concealed, and yet at the same time disclosed–of things that have been, and are coming into existence, and moreover will be,-(a happy nature) which, (the Naassene) says, is the kingdom of heaven to be sought for within a man.(3) And concerning this (nature) they hand down an explicit passage, occurring(4) in the Gospel inscribed according to Thomas,(5) expressing themselves thus: “He who seeks me, will find, me in children from seven years old; for there concealed, I shall in the fourteenth age be made manifest.” This, however, is not (the teaching) of Christ, but of Hippocrates, who uses these words: “A child of seven years is half of a father.” And so it is that these (heretics), placing the originative nature of the universe in causative seed, (and) having ascertained the (aphorism) of Hippocrates,(6) that a child of seven years old is half of a father, say that in fourteen years, according to Thomas, he is manifested. This, with them, is the ineffable and mystical Logos. They assert, then, that the Egyptians, who after the Phrygians,(7) it is established, are of greater antiquity than all mankind, and who confessedly were the first to proclaim to all the rest of men the rites and orgies of, at the same time, all the gods, as well as the species and energies (of things), have the sacred and august, and for those who are not initiated, unspeakable mysteries of Isis. These, however, are not anything else than what by her of the seven dresses and sable robe was sought and snatched away, namely, the pudendum of Osiris. And they say that Osiris is water.(8) But the seven-robed nature, encircled and arrayed with seven mantles of ethereal texture–for so they call the planetary stars, allegorizing and denominating them ethereal(9) robes,–is as it were the changeable generation, and is exhibited as the creature transformed by the ineffable and unportrayable,(10) and inconceivable and figureless one. And this, (the Naassene) says, is what is declared in Scripture, “The just will fall seven times, and rise again.”(11) For these falls, he says, are the changes of the stars, moved by Him who puts all things in motion.</span><br />
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They affirm, then, concerning the substance(12) of the seed which is a cause of all existent things, that it is none of these, but that it produces and forms all things that are made, expressing themselves thus: “I become what I wish, and I am what I am: on account of this I say, that what puts all things in motion is itself unmoved. For what exists remains forming all things, and nought of existing things is made.”(13) He says that this (one) alone is good, and that what is spoken by the Saviour(14) is declared concerning this (one): “Why do you say that am good? One is good, my Father which is in the heavens, who causeth His sun to rise upon the just and unjust, and sendeth rain upon saints and sinners.”(15) But who the saintly ones are on whom He sends the rain, and the sinners on whom the same sends the rain, this likewise we shall afterwards declare with the rest. And this is the great and secret and unknown mystery of the universe, concealed and revealed among the Egyptians. For Osiris,(16) (the Naassene) says, is in temples in front of Isis;(17) and his pudendum stands exposed, looking downwards, and crowned with all its own fruits of things that are made. And (he affirms) that such stands not only in the most hallowed temples chief of idols, but that also, for the information of all, it is as it were a light not set under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, proclaiming its message upon the housetops,( 18 ) in all by-ways, and all streets, and near the actual dwellings, placed in front as a certain appointed limit and termination of the dwelling, and that this is denominated the good (entity) by all. For they style this good-producing, not knowing what they say. And the Greeks, deriving this mystical (expression) from the Egyptians, preserve it until this day. For we behold, says (the Naassene), statues of Mercury, of such a figure honoured among them.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Worshipping, however, Cyllenius with especial distinction, they style him Logios. For Mercury is Logos, who being interpreter and fabricator of the things that have been made simultaneously, and that are being produced, and that will exist, stands honoured among them, fashioned into some such figure as is the pullendum of a man, having an impulsive power from the parts below towards those above. And that this (deity)–that is, a Mercury of this description–is, (the Naassene) says, a conjurer of the dead, and a guide of departed spirits, and an originator of souls; nor does this escape the notice of the poets, who express themselves thus:–<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">That is, from the blessed man from above, or the primal man or Adam, as it seems to them, souls have been conveyed down here into a creation of clay, that they may serve the Demiurge of this creation, Ialdabaoth,(3) a fiery God, a fourth number; for so they call the Demiurge and father of the formal world:–</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">This, he says, is he who alone has power of life and death. Concerning this, he says, it has been written, “Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron.”(5) The poet, however, he says, being desirous of adorning the incomprehensible (potency) of the blessed nature of the Logos, invested him with not an iron, but golden wand. And he enchants the eyes of the dead, as he says, and raises up again those that are slumbering, after having been roused from sleep, and after having been suitors. And concerning these, he says, the Scripture speaks: “Awake thou that sleepest, and arise, and Christ will give thee light.”(6)</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">This is the Christ who, he says, in all that have been generated, is the portrayed Son of Man from the unportrayable Logos. This, he says, is the great and unspeakable mystery of the Eleusinian rites, Hye, Cye.(7) And he affirms that all things have been subjected unto him, and this is that which has been spoken, “Their sound is gone forth unto all the earth,”(8) just as it agrees with the expressions, “Mercury(9) waving his wand, guides the souls, but they twittering follow.” I mean the disembodied spirits follow continuously in such a way as the poet by his imagery delineates, using these words:–</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Adopting these and such like (opinions), these most marvellous Gnostics, inventors of a novel(6) grammatical art, magnify Homer as their prophet–as one, (according to them,) who, after the mode adopted in the mysteries, announces these truths; and they mock those who are not indoctrinated into the holy Scriptures, by betraying them into such notions. They make, however, the following assertion: he who says that all things derive consistence from one, is in error; but he who says that they are of three, is in possession of the truth, and will furnish a solution of the (phonomena of the) universe. For there is, says (the Naassene), one blessed nature of the Blessed Man, of him who is above, (namely) Adam; and there is one mortal nature, that which is below; and there is one kingless generation, which is begotten above, where, he says, is Mariam(7) the sought-for one, and Iothor the mighty sage, and Sephors the gazing one, and Moses whose generation is not in Egypt, for children were born unto him in Madian; and not even this, he says, has escaped the notice of the poets.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">For, says he, it is necessary that the magnitudes be declared, and that they thus be declared by all everywhere, “in order that hearing they may not hear, and seeing they may not see.”(9) For if, he says, the magnitudes were not declared, the world could not have obtained consistence. These are the three tumid expressions (of these heretics), CAULACAU,(10) SAULASU, ZEESAR. CAULACAU, i.e., Adam, who is farthest above; SAULASAU, that is, the mortal one below; ZEESAR, that is, Jordan that flows upwards. This, he says, is the hermaphrodite man (present) in all. But those who are ignorant of him, call him Geryon with the threefold body–Geryon, i.e., as if (in the sense of) flowing from earth–but (whom) the Greeks by common consent (style) “celestial horn of the moon,” because he mixed and blended all things in all. “For all things,” he says, “were made by him, and not even one thing was made without him, and what was made in him is life.”(11) This, says he, is the life, the ineffable generation of perfect men, which was not known by preceding generations. But the passage, “nothing was made without him,” refers to the formal world, for it was created without his instrumentality by the third and fourth (of the quaternion named above). For says he, this is the cup “CONDY, out of which the king, while he quaffs, draws his omens.”(12) This, he says, has been discovered hid in the beauteous seeds of Benjamin. And the Greeks likewise, he says, speak of this in the following terms:–</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">This, says he, was alone sufficient for its being understood by men; (I mean) the cup of Anacreon declaring, (albeit) mutely, an ineffable mystery. For dumb, says he, is Anacreon’s cup; and (yet) Anacreon affirms that it speaks to himself, in language mute, as to what sort he must become–that is spiritual, not carnal–if he shall listen in silence to the concealed mystery. And this is the water in those fair nuptials which Jesus changing made into wine. This, he says, is the mighty and true beginning of miracles(2) which Jesus performed in Cana of Galilee, and (thus) manifested the kingdom of heaven. This, says he, is the kingdom of heaven that reposes within us as a treasure, as leaven hid in the three measures of meal.(3)<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">This, he says, the Thracians who dwell around Haemus, and the Phrygians similarly with the Thracians, denominate Corybas, because, (though) deriving the beginning of his descent from the head above and from the unportrayed brain, and (though) permeating all the principles of the existing state of things, (yet) we do not perceive how and in what manner he comes down. This, says he, is what is spoken: “We have heard his voice, no doubt, but we have not seen his shape.”(5) For the voice of him that is set apart(6) and portrayed is heard; but (his) shape, which descends from above from the unportrayed one,–what sort it is, nobody knows. It resides, however, in an earthly mould, yet no one recognises it. This, he says, is “the god that inhabiteth the flood,” according to the Psalter, “and who speaketh and crieth from many waters.”(7) The “many waters,” he says, are the diversified generation of mortal men, from which (generation) he cries and vociferates to the unportrayed man, saying, “Preserve my only-begotten from the lions.”( 8 ) In reply to him, it has, says he, been declared, “Israel, thou art my child: fear not; even though thou passest through rivers, they shall not drown thee; even though thou passest through fire, it shall not scorch thee.”(9) By rivers he means, says he, the moist substance of generation, and by fire the impulsive principle and desire for generation. “Thou art mine; fear not.” And again, he says, “If a mother forget her children, so as not to have pity on them and give them food, I also will forget you.”(10) Adam, he says, speaks to his own men: “But even though a woman forget these things, yet I will not forget you. I have painted you on my hands.” In regard, however, of his ascension, that is his regeneration, that he may become spiritual, not carnal, the Scripture, he says, speaks (thus): “Open the gates, ye who are your rulers; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in,” that is a wonder of wonders.(11) “For who,” he says, “is this King of glory? A worm, and not a man; a reproach of man, and an outcast of the people; himself is the King of glory, and powerful in war.”(12)<br />
And by war he means the war that is in the body, because its frame has been made out of hostile elements; as it has been written, he says, “Remember the conflict that exists in the body.”(13) Jacob, he says, saw this entrance and this gate in his journey into Mesopotamia, that is, when from a child he was now becoming a youth and a man; that is, (the entrance and gate) were made known unto him as he journeyed into Mesopotamia. But Mesopotamia, he says, is the current of the great ocean flowing from the midst of the Perfect Man; and he was astonished at the celestial gate, exclaiming, “How terrible is this place! it is nought else than the house of God, and this (is) the gate of heaven.”(1) On account of this, he says, Jesus uses the words, “I am the true gate.”(2) Now he who makes these statements is, he says, the Perfect Man that is imaged from the unportrayable one from above. The Perfect Man therefore cannot, he says, be saved, unless, entering in through this gate, he be born again. But this very one the Phrygians, he says, call also PAPA, because he tranquillized all things which, prior to his manifestation, were confusedly and dissonantly moved. For the name, he says, of PAPA belongs simultaneously to all creatures(3)-celestial, and terrestrial, and infernal–who exclaim, Cause to cease, cause to cease the discard of the world, and make “peace for those that are afar off,” that is, for material and earthly beings; and “peace for those that are near,”(4) that is, for perfect men that are spiritual and endued with reason. But the Phrygians denominate this same also “corpse”–buried in the body, as it were, in a mausoleum and tomb. This, he says, is what has been declared, “Ye are whited sepulchres, full,” he says, “of dead men’s bones within,”(5) because there is not in you the living man. And again he exclaims, “The dead shall start forth from the graves,”(6) that is, from the earthly bodies, being born again spiritual, not carnal. For this, he says, is the Resurrection that takes place through the gate of heaven, through which, he says, all those that do not enter remain dead. These same Phrygians, however, he says, affirm again that this very (man), as a consequence of the change, (becomes) a god. For, he says, he becomes a god when, having risen from the dead, he will enter into heaven through a gate of this kind. Paul the apostle, he says, knew of this gate, partially opening it in a mystery, and stating “that he was caught up by an angel, and ascended as far as the second and third heaven into paradise itself; and that he beheld sights and heard unspeakable words which it would not be possible for man to declare.”(7)<br />
These are, he says, what are by all called the secret mysteries, “which (also we speak), not in words taught of human wisdom, but in those taught of the Spirit, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him.”(8) And these are, he says, the ineffable mysteries of the Spirit, which we alone are acquainted with. Concerning these, he says, the Saviour has declared, “No one can come unto me, except my heavenly Father draw some one unto me.”(9) For it is very difficult, he says, to accept and receive this great and ineffable mystery. And again, it is said, the Saviour has declared, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”(10) And it is necessary that they who perform this (will), not hear it merely, should enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again, he says, the Saviour has declared, “The publicans and the harlots go into the kingdom of heaven before you.”(11) For “the publicans,” he says, are those who receive the revenues(12) of all things;(13) but we, he says, are the publicans, “unto whom the ends of the ages have come.”(14) For “the ends,” he says, are the seeds scattered from the unportrayable one upon the world, through which the whole cosmical system is completed; for through these also it began to exist. And this, he says, is what has been declared: “The sower went forth to sow. And some fell by the wayside, and was trodden down; and some on the rocky places, and sprang up,” he says, “and on account of its having no depth (of soil), it withered and died; and some,” he says, “fell on fair and good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, and some thirty fold. Who hath ears,” he says, “to hear, let him hear.”(15) The meaning of this, he says, is as follows, that none becomes a hearer of these mysteries, unless only the perfect Gnostics. This, he says, is the fair and good land which Moses speaks of: “I will bring you into a fair and good land, into a land flowing with milk and honey.”(16) This, he says, is the honey and the milk, by tasting which those that are perfect become kingless, and share in the Pleroma. This, he says, is the Pleroma, through which all existent things that are produced(17) have from the ingenerable one been both produced and completed.<br />
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The Phrygians, however, further assert that the father of the universe is “Amygdalus,” not a tree, he says, but that he is “Amygdalus” who previously existed; and he having in himself the perfect fruit, as it were, throbbing and moving in the depth, rent his breasts, and produced his now invisible, and nameless, and ineffable child. respecting whom we shall speak. For the word “Amyxai” signifies, as it were, to burst and sever through, as he says (happens) in the case of inflamed bodies, and which have in themselves any tumour; and when doctors have cut this, they call it “Amychai.” In this way, he says, the Phrygians call him “Amygdalus,” from which proceeded and was born the Invisible (One), “by whom all things were made, and nothing was made without Him.”(4) And the Phrygians say that what has been thence produced is “Syrictas” (piper), because the Spirit that is born is harmonious. “For God,” he says, “is Spirit; wherefore,” he affirms, “neither in this mountain do the true worshippers worship, nor in Jerusalem, but in spirit. For the adoration of the perfect ones,” he says, “is spiritual, not carnal.”(5) The Spirit, however, he says, is there where likewise the Father is named, and the Son is there born from this Father. This, he says, is the many-named, thousand-eyed Incomprehensible One, of whom every nature–each, however, differently–is desirous. This, he says, is the word of God, which, he says, is a word of revelation of the Great Power. Wherefore it will be sealed, and hid, and concealed, lying in the habitation where lies the basis of the root of the universe, viz. Aeons, Powers, Intelligences, Gods, Angels, delegated Spirits, Entities, Nonentities, Generables, Ingenerables, Incomprehensibles, Comprehensibles, Years, Months, Days, Hours, (and) Invisible Point from which(6) what is least begins to increase gradually. That which is, he says, nothing, and which consists of nothing, inasmuch as it is indivisible–(I mean) a point–will become through its own reflective power a certain incomprehensible magnitude. This, he says, is the kingdom of heaven, the grain of mustard seed,(7) the point which is indivisible in the body; and, he says, no one knows this (point) save the spiritual only. This, he says, is what has been spoken: “There is no speech nor language where their voice is not heard.”( 8 )<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">They rashly assume in this manner, that whatsoever things have been said and done by all men, (may be made to harmonize) with their own particular mental view, alleging that all things become spiritual. Whence likewise they assert, that those exhibiting themselves in theatres,–not even these say or do anything without premeditation. Therefore, he says, when, on the people assembling in the theatres, any one enters clad in a remarkable robe, carrying a harp and playing a tune (upon it, accompanying it) with a song of the great mysteries, he speaks as follows, not knowing what he says: “Whether (thou art) the race of Saturn or happy Jupiter,(9) or mighty Rhea, Hail, Attis, gloomy mutilation of Rhea. Assyrians style thee thrice-longed-for Adonis, and the whole of Egypt (calls thee) Osiris, celestial horn of the moon; Greeks denominate (thee) Wisdom; Samothracians, venerable Adam; Haemonians, Corybas; and them Phrygians (name thee) at one time Papa, at another time Corpse, or God, or Fruitless, or Aipolos, or green Ear of Corn that has been reaped, or whom the very fertile Amygdalus produced–a man, a musician.” This, he says, is multiform Attis, whom while they celebrate in a hymn, they utter these words: “I will hymn Attis, son of Rhea, not with the buzzing sounds of trumpets, or of Idaean pipers, which accord with (the voices of) the Curetes; but I will mingle (my song) with Apollo’s music of harps, ‘evoe, evan,’ inasmuch as thou art Pan, as thou art Bacchus, as thou art shepherd of brilliant stars.”<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">On account of these and such like reasons, these constantly attend the mysteries called those of the “Great Mother,” supposing especially that they behold by means of the ceremonies performed there the entire mystery. For these have nothing more than the ceremonies that are performed there, except that they are not emasculated: they merely complete the work of the emasculated. For with the utmost severity and vigilance they enjoin (on their votaries) to abstain, as if they were emasculated, from intercourse with a woman. The rest, however, of the proceeding (observed in these mysteries), as we have declared at some length, (they follow) just as (if they were) emasculated persons. And they do not worship any other object but Naas, (from thence) being styled Naasseni. But Naas is the serpent from whom, i.e., from the word Naas, (the Naassene) says, are all that under heaven are denominated temples (Naous). And (he states) that to him alone–that is, Naas–is dedicated every shrine and every initiatory rite, and every mystery; and, in general, that a religious ceremony could not be discovered under heaven, in which a temple (Naos) has no existence; and in the temple itself is Naas, from whom it has received its denomination of temple (Naos). And these affirm that the serpent is a moist substance, just as Thales also, the Milesian, (spoke of water as an originating principle,) and that nothing of existing things, immortal or mortal, animate or inanimate, could consist at all without him. And that all things are subject unto him, and that he is good, and that he has all things in himself, as in the horn of the one-horned bull;(1) so as that he imparts beauty and bloom to all things that exist according to their own nature and peculiarity, as if passing through all, just as (“the river) proceeding forth from Edem, and dividing itself into four heads.”(2)<br />
They assert, however, that Edem is the brain, as it were, bound and tightly fastened in encircling robes, as if (in) heaven. But they suppose that man, as far as the head only, is Paradise, therefore that “this river, which proceeds out of i Edem,” that is, from the brain, “is divided into four heads,(3) and that the name of the first river is called Phison; this is that which encompasseth all the land of Havilath: there is gold, and the gold of that land is excellent, and there is bdellium and the onyx stone.” This, he says, is the eye, which, by its honour (among the rest of the bodily organs), and its colours, furnishes testimony to what is spoken. “But the name of the second river is Gihon: this is that which compasseth the land of Ethiopia.” This, he says, is hearing, since Gihon is (a tortuous stream), resembling a sort of labyrinth. “And the name of the third is Tigris. This is that which floweth over against (the country of) the Assyrians.” This, he says,(4) is smelling, employing the exceedingly rapid current of the stream (as an analogy of this sense). But it flows over against (the country of) the Assyrians, because in every act of respiration following upon expiration, the breath drawn in from the external atmosphere enters with swifter motion and greater force. For this, he says, is the nature of respiration. “But the fourth river is Euphrates.” This, they assert, is the mouth, through which are the passage outwards of prayer, and the passage inwards of nourishment. (The mouth) makes glad, and nurtures and fashions the Spiritual Perfect Man. This, he says, is “the water that is above the firmament,”(5) concerning which, he says, the Saviour has declared, “If thou knewest who it is that asks, thou wouldst have asked from Him, and He would have given you to drink living, bubbling water.”(6) Into this water, he says, every nature enters, choosing its own substances; and its peculiar quality comes to each nature from this water, he says, more than iron does to the magnet, and the gold to the backbone(7) of the sea falcon, and the chaff to the amber.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">But if any one, he says, is blind from birth, and has never beheld the true light, “which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world,”(8) by us let him recover his sight, and behold, as it were, through some paradise planted with every description of tree, and supplied with abundance of fruits, water coursing its way through all the trees and fruits; and he will see that from one and the same water the olive chooses for itself and draws the oil, and the vine the wine; and (so is it with) the rest of plants, according to each genus. That Man, however, he says, is of no reputation in the world, but of illustrious fame in heaven, being betrayed by those who are ignorant (of his perfections) to those who know him not, being accounted as a drop from a cask.(9) We, however, he says, are spiritual, who, from the life-giving water of Euphrates, which flows through the midst of Babylon, choose our own peculiar quality as we pass through the true gate, which is the blessed Jesus. And of all men, we Christians alone are those who in the third gate celebrate the mystery, and are anointed there with the unspeakable chrism from a horn, as David (was anointed), not from an earthen vessel,(1) he says, as (was) Saul, who held converse with the evil demon(2) of carnal concupiscence.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The foregoing remarks, then, though few out of many, we have thought proper to bring forward. For innumerable are the silly and crazy attempts of folly. But since, to the best of our ability, we have explained the unknown Gnosis, it seemed expedient likewise to adduce the following point. This psalm of theirs has been composed, by which they seem to celebrate all the mysteries of the error (advanced by) them in a hymn, couched in the following terms:–</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">The world’s producing law was Primal Mind,(3)<br />
And next was First-born’s outpoured Chaos;<br />
And third, the soul received its law of toil:<br />
Encircl’d, therefore, with an acqueous(4) form,<br />
With care o’erpowered it succumbs to death.<br />
Now holding sway, it eyes the light,<br />
And now it weeps on misery flung;<br />
Now it mourns, now it thrills with joy;<br />
Now it wails, now it hears its doom;<br />
Now it hears its doom, now it dies,<br />
And now it leaves us, never to return.<br />
It, hapless straying, treads the maze of ills.<br />
But Jesus said, Father, behold,<br />
A strife of ills across the earth<br />
Wanders from thy breath (of wrath);<br />
But bitter Chaos (man) seeks to shun,<br />
And knows not how to pass it through.<br />
On this account, O Father, send me;<br />
Bearing seals, I shall descend;<br />
Through ages whole I’ll sweep,<br />
All mysteries I’ll unravel,<br />
And forms of Gods I’ll show;<br />
And secrets of the saintly path,<br />
Styled “Gnosis,” I’ll impart.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">These doctrines, then, the Naasseni attempt to establish, calling themselves Gnostics. But since the error is many-headed and diversified, resembling, in truth, the hydra that we read of in history; when, at one blow, we have struck off the heads of this (delusion) by means of refutation, employing the wand of truth, we shall entirely exterminate the monster. For neither do the remaining heresies present much difference of aspect from this, having a mutual connection through (the same) spirit of error. But since, altering the words and the names of the serpent, they wish that there should be many heads of the serpent, neither thus shall we fail thoroughly to refute them as they desire.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">THE REFUTATION OF ALL HERESIES.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">BOOK X.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">CONTENTS<br />
THE following are the contents of the tenth book of the Refutation of all Heresies:–<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">An Epitome of all Philosophers.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">And, in conclusion to all, what the Doctrine of the Truth is.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">After we have, not with violence, burst through the labyrinth(1) of heresies, but have unravelled (their intricacies) through a refutation merely, or, in other words, by the force of truth, we approach the demonstration of the truth itself. For then the artificial sophisms of error will be exposed in all their inconsistency, when we shall succeed in establishing whence it is that the definition of the truth has been derived. The truth has not taken its principles from the wisdom of the Greeks, nor borrowed its doctrines, as secret mysteries, from the tenets of the Egyptians, which, albeit silly, are regarded amongst them with religious veneration as worthy of reliance. Nor has it been formed out of the fallacies which enunciate the incoherent (conclusions arrived at through the) curiosity of the Chaldeans. Nor does the truth owe its existence to astonishment, through the operations of demons, for the irrational frenzy of the Babylonians. But its definition is constituted after the manner in which every true definition is, viz., as simple and unadorned. A definition such as this, provided it is made manifest, will of itself refute error. And although we have very frequently propounded demonstrations, and with sufficient fulness elucidated for those willing (to learn) the rule of the truth; yet even now, after having discussed all the opinions put forward by the Greeks and heretics, we have decided it not to be, at all events, unreasonable to introduce, as a sort of finishing stroke to the (nine) books preceding, this demonstration throughout the tenth book.</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Having, therefore, embraced (a consideration of) the tenets of all the wise men among the Greeks in four books, and the doctrines propounded by the heresiarchs in five, we shall now exhibit the doctrine concerning the truth in one, having first presented in a summary the suppositions entertained severally by all. For the dogmatists of the Greeks, dividing philosophy into three parts, in this manner devised from time to time their speculative systems;(2) some denominating their system Natural, and others Moral, but others Dialectical Philosophy. And the ancient thinkers who called their science Natural Philosophy, were those mentioned in book i. And the account which they furnished was after this mode: Some of them derived all things from one, whereas others from more things than one. And of those who derived all things from one, some derived them from what was devoid of quality, whereas others from what was endued with quality. And among those who derived all things from quality, some derived them from fire. and some from air, and some from water, and some from earth. And among those who derived the universe from more things than one, some derived it from numerable, but others from infinite quantities. And among those who derived all things from numerable quantities, some derived them from two, and others from four, and others from five, and others from six. And among those who derived the universe from infinite quantities, some derived entities from things similar to those generated, whereas others from things dissimilar. And among these some derived entities from things incapable of, whereas others from things capable of, passion. From a body devoid of quality and endued with unity, the Stoics, then, accounted for the generation of the universe. For, according to them, matter devoid of quality, and in all its parts susceptible of change, constitutes an originating principle of the universe. For, when an alteration of this ensues, there is generated fire, air, water, earth. The followers, however, of Hippasus, and Anaximander, and Thales the Milesian, are disposed to think that all things have been generated from one (an entity), endued with quality. Hippasus of Metapontum and Heraclitus the Ephesian declared the origin of things to be from fire, whereas Anaximander from air, but Thales from water, and Xenophanes from earth. “For from earth,” says he, “are all things, and all things terminate in the earth.”(1)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">But among those who derive all entities from more things than one, and from numerable quantities, the poet Homer asserts that the universe consists of two substances, namely earth and water; at one time expressing himself thus:–<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">“The source of gods was Sea and Mother Earth.”(2)<br />
And on another occasion thus:–<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">“But indeed ye all might become water and earth.”(3)<br />
And Xenophanes of Colophon seems to coincide with him, for he says:–<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">“We all are sprung from water and from earth.”(4)<br />
Euripides, however, (derives the universe) from earth and air, as one may ascertain from the following assertion of his:–<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">“Mother of all, air and earth, I sing.”(5)<br />
But Empedocles derives the universe from four principles, expressing himself thus:–<br />
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Brilliant Jove, and life-giving Juno and Aidoneus,<br />
And Nestis, that with tears bedews the Mortal Font.”(6) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Ocellus, however, the Lucanian, and Aristotle, derive the universe from five principles; for, along with the four elements, they have assumed the existence of a fifth, and (that this is) a body with a circular motion; and they say that from this, things celestial have their being. But the disciples of Empedocles supposed the generation of the universe to have proceeded from six principles. For in the passage where he says, “Four roots of all things hear thou first,” he produces generation out of four principles. When, however, he subjoins,–<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana; line-height: 1.4em;">he also delivers six principles of the universe, four of them material–earth, water, fire, and air; but two of them formative–Friendship and Discord. The followers, however, of Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, and of Democritus, and of Epicurus, and multitudes of others, have given it as their opinion that the generation of the universe proceeds from infinite numbers of atoms; and we have previously made partial mention of these philosophers. But Anaxagoras derives the universe from things similar to those that are being produced; whereas the followers of Democritus and Epicurus derived the universe from things both dissimilar (to the entities produced), and devoid of passion, that is, from atoms. But the followers of Heraclides of Pontus, and of Asclepiades, derived the universe from things dissimilar (to the entities produced), and capable of passion, as if from incongruous corpuscles. But the disciples of Plato affirm that these entities are from three principles–God, and Matter, and Exemplar. He divides matter, however, into four principles–fire, water, earth, and air. And (he says) that God is the Creator of this (matter), and that Mind is its exemplar.( 8 )</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">Persuaded, then, that the principle of physiology is confessedly discovered to be encumbered with difficulties for all these philosophers, we ourselves also shall fearlessly declare concerning the examples of the truth, as to how they are, and as we have felt confident that they are. But we shall previously furnish an explanation, in the way of epitome, of the tenets of the heresiarchs, in order that, by our having set before our readers the tenets of all made well known by this (plan of treatment), we may exhibit the truth in a plain and familiar (form).</span></div>
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</span> <span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Verdana;">But since it so appears expedient, let us begin first from the public worshippers of the serpent. The Naasseni call the first principle of the universe a Man, and that the same also is a Son of Man; and they divide this man into three portions. For they say one part of him is rational, and another psychical, but a third earthly. And they style him Adamas, and suppose that the knowledge appertaining to him is the originating cause of the capacity of knowing God. And the Naassene asserts that all these rational, and psychical, and earthly qualities have retired into Jesus, and that through Him these three substances simultaneously have spoken unto the three genera of the universe. These allege that there are three kinds of existence–angelic, psychical, and earthly; and that there are three churches–angelic, psychical, and earthly; and that the names for these are–chosen, called, and captive. These are the heads of doctrine advanced by them, as far as one may briefly comprehend them. They affirm that James, the brother of the Lord, delivered these tenets to Mariamne, by such a statement belying both.</span></div>
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Concerning Baptism, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and the early church beginning at Pentecost have the first and last word on that.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><br />002.137 So if they believe as ye believe, they are indeed on the right path; but if they turn back, it is they who are in schism; but God will suffice thee as against them, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.<br /><br />002.138 The <b>Baptism</b> of God: And who can baptize better than God? And it is He Whom we worship.<br /><br />002.139 Say: Will ye dispute with us about God, seeing that He is our Lord and your Lord; that we are responsible for our doings and ye for yours; and that We are sincere in Him?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">We make no difference between the prophets of God, but <b>'Isa al-Maseeh (Jesus Christ) </b>is the only <b>Messiah</b> in Islam as he is in Christian profession of faith in God. He is not relegated to only the status of a prophet, but as he himself said, he is the <b>Prophet</b> and is the Prophet that Moses prophesied would come and be rejected by the Jews.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">[17] And the Lord said to me: They have spoken all things well. [18] I will raise them up a <b>prophet</b> out of the midst of their brethren like to thee <i>[Moses]</i>: and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I shall command him. [19] And he that will not hear his words, which he shall speak in my name, I will be the revenger.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">John 4:44<br />For <b>Jesus</b> himself gave testimony that a prophet hath no honour in his own country.<i> [which testified that he was the prophet that Moses prophesied would be rejected by his and Moses own household, that is only <b>Jesus</b>.]</i></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">John 7:28<br />Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching, and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am: and I am not come of myself; but he that sent me, is true, whom you know not.<br /><br />Luke 10:16<br />He that heareth you, heareth me; and he that despiseth you, despiseth me; and he that despiseth me, despiseth him that sent me.<br /><br />Matthew 10:40<br />He that receiveth you, receiveth me: and he that receiveth me, receiveth him that sent me.<br /><br />John 14:24<br />He that loveth me not, keepeth not my words. And the word which you have heard, is not mine; but the Father's who sent me.</span></div>
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3 ¶ Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</div>
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4 Blessed are the meek: for they shall possess the land.</div>
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5 Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.</div>
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6 Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.</div>
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7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.</div>
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8 Blessed are the clean of heart: they shall see God.</div>
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9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.</div>
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10 Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.</div>
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11 Blessed are ye when they shall revile you, and persecute you, and speak all that is evil against you, untruly, for my sake:</div>
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12 Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.</div>
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13 ¶ You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt lose its savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is good for nothing anymore but to be cast out, and to be trodden on by men.</div>
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14 You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.</div>
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15 Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may shine to all that are in the house.</div>
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16 So let your light shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.</div>
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17 ¶ Do not think that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.</div>
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18 For amen I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot, or one tittle shall not pass of the law, till all be fulfilled.</div>
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19 He therefore that shall break one of these least commandments, and shall so teach men shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven. But he that shall do and teach, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.</div>
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20 For I tell you, that unless your justice abound more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.</div>
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21 ¶ You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not kill. And whosoever shall kill, shall be in danger of the judgment.</div>
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22 But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.</div>
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23 If therefore thou offer thy gift at the altar, and there thou remember that thy brother hath anything against thee;</div>
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24 Leave there thy offering before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother, and then coming thou shalt offer thy gift.</div>
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25 Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.</div>
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26 Amen I say to thee, thou shalt not go out from thence till thou repay the last farthing.</div>
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27 ¶ You have heard that it was said to them of old: Thou shalt not commit adultery.</div>
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28 But I say to you, that whosoever shall look on a woman to lust after her, hath already committed adultery with her in his heart.</div>
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29 And if thy right eye scandalize thee, pluck it out and cast it from thee. For it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than thy whole body be cast into hell.</div>
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30 And if thy right hand scandalize thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is expedient for thee that one of thy members should perish, rather than that thy whole body go into hell.</div>
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31 And it hath been said, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce.</div>
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32 But I say to you, that whosoever shall put away his wife, excepting the cause of fornication, maketh her to commit adultery: and he that shall marry her that is put away, committeth adultery.</div>
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33 ¶ Again you have heard that it was said to them of old, thou shalt not forswear thyself: but thou shalt perform thy oaths to the Lord.</div>
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34 But I say to you not to swear at all, neither by heaven for it is the throne of God:</div>
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35 Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king:</div>
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36 Neither shalt thou swear by thy head, because thou canst not make one hair white or black.</div>
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37 But let your speech be yea, yea: no, no: and that which is over and above these, is of evil.</div>
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38 ¶ You have heard that it hath been said: An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth.</div>
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39 But I say to you not to resist evil: but if one strike thee on thy right cheek, turn to him also the other:</div>
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40 And if a man will contend with thee in judgment, and take away thy coat, let go thy cloak also unto him.</div>
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41 And whosoever will force thee one mile, go with him other two.</div>
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42 Give to him that asketh of thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not away.</div>
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43 ¶ You have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thy enemy.</div>
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44 But I say to you, Love your enemies: do good to them that hate you: and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you:</div>
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45 That you may be the children of your Father who is in heaven, who maketh his sun to rise upon the good, and bad, and raineth upon the just and the unjust.</div>
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46 For if you love them that love you, what reward shall you have? do not even the publicans this?</div>
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47 And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more? do not also the heathens this?</div>
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48 Be you therefore perfect, as also your heavenly Father is perfect.</div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><br /><br /><a href="http://thecatholiccreed.blogspot.com/2008/05/let-us-make-this-clear-before-venturing.html">The Catholic Creed: It is a profound teaching of Catholicism</a></span><br />
Let us make this clear before venturing onto the below. All men are called to salvation in Christ, Jew and Gentile alike.<br />
It is a profound teaching of Catholicism that Jesus Christ took upon Himself flesh of ALL men from Adam on - subsumed from the Blessed Virgin Mary (see the genealogies of Christ from the Gospel of St. Matthew Chapter 1 and the Gospel of St. Luke Chapter 3). Therefore He is equally the Saviour of all men regardless of race or ethnicity. In contrast to this sublime truth is the lie that a particular race is the salvific hope of mankind and ultimately that a given individual of that particular race is a man-god and that race alone is human, such as the so-called Aryan Nazis and Hitler or 'the form of the elect of the nations' of Dr. Klausner and a "natural messiah" for them only and from them only <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">–</span> see below:<br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span">Edited Under Fr. Leonard Feeney M.I.C.M. — Saint Benedict Center</span></b><br />
<b><i><span class="Apple-style-span">June, 1957</span></i></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span">THE REJECTED PEOPLE OF HOLY SCRIPTURE</span></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">Why the Jews Fear the Bible</span></h2>
<span class="Apple-style-span">Why The Jews Fear The Bible (June, 1957)</span><br />
The prime incentive for reading God’s word is always, of course, just that: it is God’s word — the thundering, inspired account of man’s long climb from Genesis to Apocalypse; how he fell from grace, how he was redeemed, what he must do to be saved.<br />
But there is another reason also why now, particularly, we ought to take our Scriptures off the shelves. The notion has got around (at whose prompting, we will let you guess) that the Bible is a book which celebrates the Jews; and that since we Catholics are supposed to reverence the Bible, we ought also to honor the race to whom it is devoted.<br />
The number of people who have been deceived by this artful dodge indicates one thing: how crass and colossal is our present-day ignorance of Holy Scripture.<br />
No one could possibly read the seventy-two books which constitute God’s revelation and conclude that Jews deserve the esteem of Catholics. For albeit the Bible presents Jewish history, it is not the sort of history the Anti-Defamation League would approve. It is the story of how a few faithful Jews in each generation championed God against the rest of their race —a proud, stubborn, ungrateful, and unbelieving multitude. Far from promoting love for the Jews, the Bible is thus the font of Christian anti-Jewishness. No other book gives such a strong, sure taste of their perfidy.<br />
It is in the New Testament that the Jews are shown at their ultimate worst — when they are confronted with the Messias, reject Him, crucify Him, call down His Blood as a curse upon them, and then do their utmost to prevent His gospel from being spread through the world. A partial report on this New-Testament portrayal of the Jews appears below. But even under the Old Law it is evident what the Jews are coming to. Prophet after prophet castigates them for their wickedness and warns them that they are going to be rejected by God in favor of the Gentiles; and prophet after prophet is killed by the Jews in defiant retort. As early as the book of Exodus, God has said to Moses: “See that this people is stiff-necked. Let me alone, that my wrath may be kindled against them, and that I may destroy them: and I will make of thee a great nation.” (Exodus 32:9)<br />
Plainly, it is not for their own sakes, or for any goodness inherent in the race, that the Jews are kept at the center of the Old-Testament stage. It is, rather, because through some Jews — a holy, beleaguered handful, like Moses and Joshua and David and the prophets — the true Faith is kept alive down to the time of Our Lord. And the other reason for God’s sustained interest in the Jews is that eventually from their thorny midst there will blossom His one perfect creature, the Virginal Mother of His Son.<br />
But if the Jews make such a poor showing in the Old Testament, how do they bear to read it? The answer is, they don’t. Their religious reading time is devoted to a post-Crucifixion book of their own devising, the Talmud. The Jews have rejected the first part of Holy Scripture as surely and as violently as they have rejected the second. Nor is it merely the treatment of their ancestors that the Jews object to; it is equally the Old Testament’s prophecies of the coming Messias, so blazingly and unmistakably fulfilled in Jesus. [Especially see Isaiah, chapters 52 and 53 and Daniel, chapter 11.]<br />
Yet it should not be assumed that in shunning the Faith of Moses and David the Jews have abandoned all religious doctrine. Everyone familiar with Jewish practices knows that they still do believe most fervently in a Messias. And they profess this belief constantly — when they force Gentile merchants out of business and take over a city’s shopping district; when they take control of a nation’s newspapers and other means of disseminating ideas; when they demand that laws be passed forbidding anyone to speak against the Jews; when they drive a million Arabs from their homes and appropriate the land for themselves; when they insist that Western nations not only allow this outrage, but support it with their wealth and the blood of their youth — in all these ways and in hundreds of others, the Jews testify to their belief in a Messias.<br />
And if anyone is still wondering who the Jews think the Messias is, Dr. Joseph Klausner, internationally recognized Jewish spokesman, supplies the answer. In his book, <i>The Messianic Idea In Israel</i> (Macmillan, 1955), Dr. Klausner declares that a personal savior has long since been an old-fashioned notion with the Jews and that, “Thus the whole people Israel, in the form of the elect of the nations, gradually became the Messiah of the world, the redeemer of mankind.”<br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span">It is out of that horrid racist idea of only Jews being human and elect of God that the Antichrist will emerge in his time.</span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><a href="http://thecatholiccreed.blogspot.com/2006/05/rev-paschal-huchedes-view-of-antichrist.html">The Catholic Creed: Rev. Paschal Huchede's view of the Antichrist</a></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">From below - </span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"><span class="Apple-style-span">ARTICLE II - 2.</span></span></span></b></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">: "</span></span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">And we see that in the mystery of iniquity Antichrist adores Satan and the false prophet glorifies Antichrist. Hence we have every reason to show that this </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">false prophet </span></span></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">will be an individual person and not a collective term to designate the universality of preachers engaged in the service of Antichrist. </span></span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">We can even assert that he will not be a king, nor a general of an army, but a </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">clever apostate, fallen from the episcopal dignity</span></span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">."</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">The </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">false prophet </span></span></i></b></span></span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">will be the Antipope and his </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">successors</span></span></span></b></span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;"> at that time. This began with Antipope John XXIII and continues through, including Antipope Benedict XVI and all successors to this line of apostasy. All of them are apostate from the faith and came to the See of Peter invalidly as well. Their Apostasy alone marks them as Antipopes and to follow them is to embrace apostasy and be damned.</span></span></span></b></span></b></span></div>
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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">1. Antichrist Begins to Manifest Himself to the Jews</span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Antichrist, being a Jew, will be circumcised; he will observe the Mosaic Law, and finally he will give himself for the Messiah whom Israel still expects, and he will be received by those whose names are not written in the Book of Life, in the Book of the Lamb. (Apoc. 13:8). Hence Our Lord thus reproaches the Jews, "I am come in the name of my Father, and you receive me not; if another shall come in his own name, him you will receive." Jn. 5:43). St. Irenaeus, St. Hilary, St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and St. Damascus are of opinion that Our Lord makes allusion in this passage to Antichrist.</span></span></div>
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<strong><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">2. He Achieves the Conquest of the World and Makes Jerusalem its Capital</span></span></strong></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Antichrist will naturally meet with obstacles in carrying out his designs. The ten kings, who, according to the prophet Daniel and St. John, will have divided the Roman empire among them, shall endeavor to conserve the independence of their realms and consequently will resist him with fire and sword. "I considered," says the prophet, "the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out of the midst of them, and three of the first horns were plucked up at the sight thereof. . . And these ten horns shall be ten kings, and another shall rise up after them, and he shall be mightier than the former, and he shall bring down three kings." (Dan. 7:8 &amp; 24). "He shall take possession of the land; Egypt will not escape his power. . . he shall pass into Libya and Ethiopia." (Dan. 11 :42-43). St. Jerome has left us the interpretation of the Fathers, which is corroborated by all ecclesiastical writers who have since treated the question. At the end of the world. after the destruction of the empire, ten kings will divide among them the fragments of the Roman empire; then an eleventh king will enter the scene and conquer three of their number: the king of Egypt, the king of Africa, and the king of Ethiopia. After their death, the remaining seven laid their scepters at the conqueror's feet. (Dan. 7 [esp. 24-25]).</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">It seems that he will probably be defeated by certain people of the Western nations, who will give him a naval battle, people whom Daniel calls "Romans." (11:30). But he will soon recover from this defeat. St. Irenaeus and St. Hippolytus of Antioch concur with St. Jerome in the same opinion, which gives this interpretation of the prophet a theological certitude. When Antichrist shall have conquered all his enemies, power shall be given him over all tribes, peoples, languages, and nations; he will be the first Jew to reign over the whole world. When he shall find himself master of the world, he will choose for his capital the city in which Our Lord was crucified. (Apoc. 11 :8). If he did otherwise. he would fail to make the Jews receive him for the Messiah since their hearts will be fixed on terrestrial glory and Jerusalem, in their esteem, must be the sojourn of the Messiah.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">"And they adored the beast, saying, who is like to the beast? and who shall be able to fight with him?" </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Apoc. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">13 :4).</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">All vile parasites of fortune, astonished at the rapidity with which Antichrist achieves his conquests and also at the unlimited sway of his power, deceived by his prodigies, will prostrate themselves before him and adore him as their god. As soon as he believes himself master of the bodies and souls of all peoples, he will decree and proclaim his divinity and establish a new religion. According to the Apostle, he will lift himself up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God showing himself as if he were God. (2 Thes. 2:4). He will command all peoples to place his statue in the public places to be worshipped, the image of the beast whose wound was healed. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Apoc. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">13 :13-15). "He will sit in the temple of God showing himself as if he were God." (2 Thes. 2:4). This temple is probably that of Jerusalem, which he will have rebuilt and in which he will have divine honors paid to him. (Damascus, Book 4, Ch. 37). It is then, according to the prophecy of Daniel and in full force of the term, that the abomination of desolation shall be in the temple, seated in the holy place. (Dan. 9:27). Then he shall think himself able to change times and laws - religious, political, and sacred - by which the world had been governed up to his advent. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Dan. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">7:25). Although he will make himself the object of idolatrous worship, he himself will adore a god called Moazim, ignored by his ancestors, and he will load this idol with gold and precious stones. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Dan. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">11:38-39).</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Our Lord Jesus Christ as man adored His Father. Antichrist will adore his father, Satan, principal author of his power. As for the moral of his religion, we are permitted to believe that he will eliminate from it whatever is painful to corrupt human nature, so that he may more easily gain men over to his party. (Suarez et Bellarm.)</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">In order to propagate his religion, he will send out missionaries to all parts of the world, as Our Saviour sent His Apostles to preach His doctrine. Among the false prophets, there will most probably be one more illustrious than the others, as St. Ambrose remarks. (in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Apoc.). </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">St. John describes him as follows: "And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns, like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon." </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Apoc. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">13:11). And in another passage he seems to point out three different persons: "And I saw from the mouth of the dragon, and from the mouth of the beast, and from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs." </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Apoc. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">16:13). The dragon, the beast, and the false prophet signify Satan, Antichrist, and the principal apostle of Antichrist. These three different beings command all the other demons. In the work of our redemption, the three divine persons of the adorable Trinity manifested themselves. The Son adores the Father; the Holy Ghost gives glory to the Son. And we see that in the mystery of iniquity Antichrist adores Satan and the false prophet glorifies Antichrist. Hence we have every reason to show that this false prophet will be an individual person and not a collective term to designate the universality of preachers engaged in the service of Antichrist. We can even assert that he will not be a king, nor a general of an army, but a clever apostate, fallen from the episcopal dignity. From being an apostle of the Gospel he will become the first preacher of the false messiah. These conjectures are not devoid of much plausibility. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Acosta, </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Book 2, Ch. 16). Antichrist will communicate his power of working miracles to others, who will go into different countries and cities to gain new proselytes by all the human and diabolical means in their power. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Acosta, </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">2, 16). It is thus that the words of Our Lord will be fulfilled. "For there shall rise up false Christs and false prophets, and they shall show signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect. Take ye heed, therefore. Behold I have foretold you all things." (Mk. 13:22-23). "And then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ; 10, he is here, do not believe. . . he is in the desert, go ye not out." </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Mat. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">24:23-26). Benighted apostles who will indeed turn away from truth! (2 </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Tim. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">4:4). They blaspheme the majesty of God and despise all true authority. "Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their confusion, wandering stars to whom the storm of darkness is reserved forever." (Jude 1:13). "Fountains without water and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the midst of darkness is reserved." (2 Pet. 2:17).</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Antichrist will furthermore make all men, great and small, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, bear a sign on their right arm or on their forehead. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Apoc. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">13 :16). What this sign shall be time alone will reveal. Yet there are some commentators of Holy Writ, who, according to a special revelation, pretend to say that it shall be formed out of the Greek letters X and P, interlaced like a figure which resembles the number of Christ. (Cornelius a Lapide in </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Epis. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">2 to Thes.]</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">No one can either buy or sell without this mark, as distinctly specified in the </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Apocalypse </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(13:17). And that no man might buy or sell but he that had the character or the name of the beast or the number of his name." None but adorers of this new god can enjoy the possession of riches or honors. This god shall increase their glory and shall give them power over many and shall divide the land for nothing. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Apoc. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">13:7).</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Those who will refuse to obey his impious orders shall be the object of a terrible and universal persecution. Gog and Magog shall be let loose; they shall come upon the "breath of the earth and encompass the camp of the saints and the beloved city." </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">(Apoc. </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">20:8). What do these names mean? The Jews pretend that Gog will be Antichrist and Magog the northern people. "At the coming of the Messiah, they shall enter Palestine and lay waste the country to such an extent that the unfortunate citizens will be obliged to 'burn for fuel the handles of the lances and shields left on the battlefield. But these misfortunes once over, the golden age shall revive." This Thalmudic interpretation of Ezechiel (28) given by St. Jerome cannot be questioned. [Ed. note - St. Jerome is not saying that we are to go to the Talmud for anything of the truth, for it is a book of nothing but Satanic deceit. But he is saying that the Jews await this earthly naturalistic false messiah and shall be taken in by this impostor.] Some other ecclesiastical writers, notably Eusebius (Book 3, </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">Hist., </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">c. </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">ult.) </span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia;">and Lactance (Book c. 44, 25), place the battle of Gog and Magog a thousand years after the death of Antichrist. During those thousand years, Jesus Christ will reign with the saints in this world in the midst of infidels, if not converted at least subjugated. At the lapse of that time Gog and Magog shall appear on the scene and wage a bloody war against the saints. This war shall be closely followed by the end of the world and the last judgment. This is, as may be easily seen, the error of the millennium which has long since been refuted by the Fathers St. Augustine, St. Jerome, and many others. [Ed. note - St. Irenaeus, 180 A.D., is earlier and principle in refuting this error. It is noteworthy that St. Irenaeus teaches - as the Church always has as well - that Christ will return to earth and reign with all His saints resurrected then and all the angels of the Father. The false idea of the millenium, sometimes erroneously attributed to St. Irenaeus, is that only some of the saints will be resurrected for a thousand years or that Gog and Magog are separated by a thousand years from Antichrist; impossible, for Gog is Antichrist or termed the Dajjal in Islam. The true "millenial" teaching is, as St. Irenaeus and the Church from the beginning with her Lord has always confessed, that Our Lord Jesus Christ will return at His Parousia and reign for a "thousand years" meaning the beginning of that first of the eternal ages, <b>which will never end.</b> ] It is probable that Gog and Magog mean Antichrist's combat against the Church. According to Bellarmine, Gog will be Antichrist himself and Magog will be his army. Because Ezechiel always designates Gog as a leader and Magog as a region (Ezech. 38-39), Magog, it is true, is regarded as being the Sythian nation. In Genesis (10:2) the second son of Japeth is said to have borne this name, and the country in which he settled was naturally called after him, and this country, according to Josephus, is Scythia. In employing this term to designate the army of Antichrist, we are led to infer that the men composing it will be orientals, or what seems more plausible, that his soldiers will possess all the brutality of those barbarous people. [Ed. note - the Khazars as Judaist Gog and Magog fit quite well.]</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Antichrist will arise from the tribe of Dan, wherever they were dispersed to and no one knows the answer to that except God Himself.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Treatise on Christ and Antichrist, St. Hippolytus:</span><br />
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of the tribe of Dan, then, that that tyrant and king, that dread judge, that
son of the devil, is destined to spring and arise, the prophet testifies when
he says, "Dan shall judge his people, as (he is) also one tribe in Israel."
But some one may say that this refers to Samson, who sprang from the tribe of
Dan, and judged the people twenty years. Well, the prophecy had its partial
fulfilment in Samson, but its complete fulfilment is reserved for Antichrist.
For Jeremiah also speaks to this effect: "From Dan we are to hear the
sound of the swiftness of his horses: the whole land trembled</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #333333;">at the sound of the neighing, of the driving of
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And another prophet says: "He shall gather together all his strength, from
the east even to the west. They whom he calls, and they whom he calls not,
shall go with him. He shall make the sea white with the sails of his ships, and
the plain black with the shields of his armaments. And whosoever shall oppose
him in war shall fall by the sword." That these things, then, are said of
no one else but that tyrant, and shameless one, and adversary of God, we shall
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If one tries to make either Muhammad or the myth of the Mahdi, who in the Hadiths is supposed to come (in one hadrat he is supposed to be of the bloodline of Muhammad), into the final prophet of God - that is HERESY and APOSTASY.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Those who are already mislead by that are already counting the days and Arab monarchies until their bloodline rules the world. Such is the same Apostasy from God that the Jews committed and are guilty of. The Antichrist will be a Jew of the tribe of Dan and not an Arab of the sons of Ishmael. The False Prophet, in all likelihood, will be of the houses of the dragon and of the realm of Caesar. The Mahdi, so far, is a bad myth which corrupts the meaning of the two witnesses at the last just before the Second coming of Jesus Christ. Those two witnesses are Enoch and Elijah.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #000066;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The Dome of the Rock</span></span></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br />Fanatics' target for attack to begin WWIII? Or actually the location for the false peace pact to be built around. See below:<br /><br />Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ warned of false prophets who come in His name. This warning must be applied to any who preach themselves rather than God. If someone claimed to be the Twelfth Imam in an esoteric false-Sufi sense and pointed to a figure like al-</span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ha</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">kim bi-Amr All</span><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">a</span></u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">h of the Druze as the Mahdi he would be a false prophet and an antichrist (dajjal) by definition. When he pointed to this person (most likely a freemason ecumenist "hawk") as the Mahdi who then as a Muslim, instead of acknowledging Muhammed and especially confessing Jesus Christ as the Messiah and the Son of God and professing morality, unifies both Sunni and Shia and all of an apostasy from Islam around himself and strikes a peace agreement with the Antichrist (ad-Dajjal) in Jerusalem then this person claiming to be the Mahdi would be one of the ten horns (see Rev. 17:3, 7, 12, 16) that follow after the Beast (the Antichrist) and do his will and then there is the false peace St. Paul warned about. See: 1Thes:5:3</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“For when they shall say: Peace and security; then shall sudden destruction come upon them, as the pains upon her that is with child, and they shall not escape.” (DRV) Many Muslims are named after Muhammed. In this sense if we rearrange the name Muhammed to a different spelling that does not in any sense apply to the Prophet Muhammad but would only apply to a false prophet who is an apostate from God - a kafir, we arrive at -</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The swastika is one of the so-called birth symbols of the buddha; in actuality it is an ancient sun symbol of paganism and black magic --</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The heresy of the Naasseni (literally “Naas” is the word for serpent, Jewish Gnostic serpent worshippers) is adverted to by the other leading writers on heresy in the early age of the Church. See St. Irenaeus, i, 34: Origen, Contr. Cels., vi 28 (p. 291 et seq. ed. Spenc.); Tertullian, Proeser., c. 47 Theodoret, Haeretic. Fabul, i. 14; Epiphanius, Advers. Haereses., xxv. and xxxvii.: St. Augustine, De Haeres., xvii.; Jerome, Comment. Epist. ad Galat., lib. ii. The Abbe Cruice reminds his readers that the Naasseni carried their doctrines into India, and refers to the Asiatic Researches (vol. x. p. 39).<br /><br />The Abbe Cruice mentions the following works as of authority among the Gnostic Naasseni, and from whence they derived their system: The Gospel of Perfection, Gospel of Eve, The Questions of Mary, Concerning the Offspring of Mary, The Gospel of Philip, The Gospel according to (1)Thomas, (2) the Egyptians.</span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">'The Abbe Cruice reminds his readers that the Naasseni carried their doctrines into India, and refers to the Asiatic Researches (vol. x. p. 39).' It was from this that the main composers of Buddhist teachings, Nagarjuna (literally “wise snake”) and Ashvaghosha, got their ideas (early second century A.D.) which are at the real historical beginning of Buddhism and not the mythic beginning around 500 B.C. concurrent with Mahavira and Goshala.<br /><br /><br />The Hebrew word is nachash. Hebrew for serpent and black magic and from whence comes the Indian word naga (serpent) and which is the same as nag in Nag Hammadi where the Gnostic writings were found a few decades ago and totally backed up everything that the Church Fathers said about the Gnostics.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><b><span style="color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">From St. Hippolytus THE REFUTATION OF ALL HERESIES.</span></span></span></b><span style="color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">BOOK V.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">CHAP. I.- RECAPITULATION; CHARACTERISTICS OF HERESY; ORIGIN OF THE NAME NAASSENI; THE SYSTEM OF THE NAASSENI.</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />…</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><span style="color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">These (Naasseni), then, according to the system(1) advanced by them, magnify, (as the originating cause) of all things else, a man and a son of man. And this man is a hermaphrodite, and is denominated among them Adam; and hymns many and various are made to him. The hymns? however--to be brief--are couched among them in some such form as this: "From thee (comes) father, and through thee (comes) mother, two names immortal, progenitors of Aeons, O denizen of heaven, thou illustrious man." … All these qualities, however--rational, and psychical, and earthly--have, (the Naassene) says, retired and descended into one man simultaneously--Jesus,(5) who was born of Mary.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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"...the core of this - St. Irenaeus records that it was the Church who focused on Rome as bringing their consensus of Apostolic teaching there so Rome would be a good witness (This was because it was where the emperor lived and ruled from and it was important for the Church to give true witness of herself to the Romans beginning with their head. But in no case did it mean the emperor ruled the Church NOR did the Bishop of Rome.)"<br />
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Rome itself is destined to fall completely before the onslaught of the Antichrist:<br />
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<ul><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-63.htm#P9242_2690367" name="LOC_P9242_2690367">Chapter XXV.-The Fraud, Pride, and Tyrannical Kingdom of Antichrist, as Described by Daniel and Paul.</a><br />
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1. And not only by the particulars already mentioned, but also by means of the events which shall occur in the time of Antichrist is it shown that he, being an apostate and a robber, is anxious to be adored as God; and that, although a mere slave, he wishes himself to be proclaimed as a king. For he (Antichrist) being endued with all the power of the devil, shall come, not as a righteous king, nor as a legitimate king, [i.e., one] in subjection to God, but an impious, unjust, and lawless one; as an apostate, iniquitous and murderous; as a robber, concentrating in himself [all] satanic apostasy, and setting aside idols to persuade [men] that he himself is God, raising up himself as the only idol, having in himself the multifarious errors of the other idols. This he does, in order that they who do [now] worship the devil by means of many abominations, may serve himself by this one idol, of whom the apostle thus speaks in the second Epistle to the Thessalonians: "Unless there shall come a failing away first, and the man of sin shall be revealed, the son of perdition, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he sitteth in the temple of God, showing himself as if he were God." The apostle therefore clearly points out his apostasy, and that he is lifted up above all that is called God, or that is worshipped-that is, above every idol-for these are indeed so called by men, but are not [really] gods; and that he will endeavour in a tyrannical manner to set himself forth as God.<br />
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2. Moreover, he (the apostle) has also pointed out this which I have shown in many ways, that the temple in Jerusalem was made by the direction of the true God. For the apostle himself, speaking in his own person, distinctly called it the temple of God. Now I have shown in the third book, that no one is termed God by the apostles when speaking for themselves, except Him who truly is God, the Father of our Lord, by whose directions the temple which is at Jerusalem was constructed for those purposes which I have already mentioned; in which [temple] the enemy shall sit, endeavouring to show himself as Christ, as the Lord also declares: "But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which has been spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand), then let those who are in Judea flee into the mountains; and he who is upon the house-top, let him not come down to take anything out of his house: for there shall then be great hardship, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, nor ever shall be."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9245_2693094">216</a></sup><br />
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3. Daniel too, looking forward to the end of the last kingdom, i.e., the ten last kings, amongst whom the kingdom of those men shall be partitioned, and upon whom the son of perdition shall come, declares that ten horns shall spring from the beast, and that another little horn shall arise in the midst of them, and that three of the former shall be rooted up before his face. He says: "And, behold, eyes were in this horn as the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things, and his look was more stout than his fellows. I was looking, and this horn made war against the saints, and prevailed against them, until the Ancient of days came and gave judgment to the saints of the most high God, and the time came, and the saints obtained the kingdom."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9247_2693875">217</a></sup> Then, further on, in the interpretation of the vision, there was said to him: "The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall excel all other kingdoms, and devour the whole earth, and tread it down, and cut it in pieces. And its ten horns are ten kings which shall arise; and after them shall arise another, who shall surpass in evil deeds all that were before him, and shall overthrow three kings; and he shall speak words against the most high God, and wear out the saints of the most high God, and shall purpose to change times and laws; and [everything] shall be given into his hand until a time of times and a half time,"<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9248_2694550">218</a></sup> that is, for three years and six months, during which time, when he comes, he shall reign over the earth. Of whom also the Apostle Paul again, speaking in the second [Epistle] to the Thessalonians, and at the same time proclaiming the cause of his advent, thus says: "And then shall the wicked one be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the spirit of His mouth, and destroy by the presence of His coming; whose coming [i.e., the wicked one's] is after the working of Satan, in all power, and signs, and portents of lies, and with all deceivableness of wickedness for those who perish; because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And therefore God will send them the working of error, that they may believe a lie; that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but gave consent to iniquity,"<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9249_2695423">219</a></sup><br />
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4. The Lord also spoke as follows to those who did not believe in Him: "I have come in my Father's name, and ye have not received Me: when another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive,"<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9251_2695643">220</a></sup> calling Antichrist "the other," because he is alienated from the Lord. This is also the unjust judge, whom the Lord mentioned as one "who feared not God, neither regarded man,"<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9252_2695839">221</a></sup> to whom the widow fled in her forgetfulness of God,-that is, the earthly Jerusalem,-to be avenged of her adversary. Which also he shall do in the time of his kingdom: he shall remove his kingdom into that [city], and shall sit in the temple of God, leading astray those who worship him, as if he were Christ. To this purpose Daniel says again: "And he shall desolate the holy place; and sin has been given for a sacrifice,<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9253_2696289">222</a></sup> and righteousness been cast away in the earth, and he has been active (<i>fecit</i>), and gone on prosperously."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9254_2696637">223</a></sup> And the angel Gabriel, when explaining his vision, states with regard to this person: "And towards the end of their kingdom a king of a most fierce countenance shall arise, one understanding [dark] questions, and exceedingly powerful, full of wonders; and he shall corrupt, direct, influence (<i>faciet</i>), and put strong men down, the holy people likewise; and his yoke shall be directed as a wreath [round their neck]; deceit shall be in his hand, and he shall be lifted up in his heart: he shall also ruin many by deceit, and lead many to perdition, bruising them in his hand like eggs."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9255_2697245">224</a></sup> And then he points out the time that his tyranny shall last, during which the saints shall be put to flight, they who offer a pure sacrifice unto God: "And in the midst of the week," he says, "the sacrifice and the libation shall be taken away, and the abomination of desolation [shall be brought] into the temple: even unto the consummation of the time shall the desolation be complete."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9256_2697661">225</a></sup> Now three years and six months constitute the half-week.<br />
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5. From all these passages are revealed to us, not merely the particulars of the apostasy, and [the doings] of him who concentrates in himself every satanic error, but also, that there is one and the same God the Father, who was declared by the prophets, but made manifest by Christ. For if what Daniel prophesied concerning the end has been confirmed by the Lord, when He said, "When ye shall see the abomination of desolation, which has been spoken of by Daniel the prophet"<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9258_2698214">226</a></sup> (and the angel Gabriel gave the interpretation of the visions to Daniel, and he is the archangel of the Creator (<i>Demiurgi</i>), who also proclaimed to Mary the visible coming and the incarnation of Christ), then one and the same God is most manifestly pointed out, who sent the prophets, and made promise<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9259_2698539">227</a></sup> of the Son, and called us into His knowledge.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-63.htm#P9261_2698677" name="LOC_P9261_2698677">Chapter XXVI.-John and Daniel Have Predicted the Dissolution and Desolation of the Roman Empire, Which Shall Precede the End of the World and the Eternal Kingdom of Christ. The Gnostics are Refuted, Those Tools of Satan, Who Invent Another Father Different from the Creator.</a><br />
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1. In a still clearer light has John, in the Apocalypse, indicated to the Lord's disciples what shall happen in the last times, and concerning the ten kings who shall then arise, among whom the empire which now rules [the earth] shall be partitioned. He teaches us what the ten horns shall be which were seen by Daniel, telling us that thus it had been said to him: "And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, who have received no kingdom as yet, but shall receive power as if kings one hour with the beast. These have one mind, and give their strength and power to the beast. These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, because He is the Lord of lords and the King of kings."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9263_2699664">228</a></sup> It is manifest, therefore, that of these [potentates], he who is to come shall slay three, and subject the remainder to his power, and that he shall be himself the eighth among them. And they shall lay Babylon waste, and burn her with fire, and shall give their kingdom to the beast, and put the Church to flight. After that they shall be destroyed by the coming of our Lord. For that the kingdom must be divided, and thus come to ruin, the Lord [declares when He] says: "Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9264_2700292">229</a></sup> It must be, therefore, that the kingdom, the city, and the house be divided into ten; and for this reason He has already foreshadowed the partition and division [which shall take place]. Daniel also says particularly, that the end of the fourth kingdom consists in the toes of the image seen by Nebuchadnezzar, upon which came the stone cut out without hands; and as he does himself say: "The feet were indeed the one part iron, the other part clay, until the stone was cut out without hands, and struck the image upon the iron and clay feet, and dashed them into pieces, even to the end."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9265_2700904">230</a></sup> Then afterwards, when interpreting this, he says: "And as thou sawest the feet and the toes, partly indeed of clay, and partly of iron, the kingdom shall be divided, and there shall be in it a root of iron, as thou sawest iron mixed with baked clay. And the toes were indeed the one part iron, but the other part clay."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9266_2701248">231</a></sup> The ten toes, therefore, are these ten kings, among whom the kingdom shall be partitioned, of whom some indeed shall be strong and active, or energetic; others, again, shall be sluggish and useless, and shall not agree; as also Daniel says: "Some part of the kingdom shall be strong, and part shall be broken from it. As thou sawest the iron mixed with the baked clay, there shall be minglings among the human race, but no cohesion one with the other, just as iron cannot be welded on to pottery ware."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9267_2701775">232</a></sup> And since an end shall take place, he says: "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven raise up a kingdom which shall never decay, and His kingdom shall not be left to another people. It shall break in pieces and shatter all kingdoms, and shall itself be exalted for ever. As thou sawest that the stone was cut without hands from the mountain, and brake in pieces the baked clay, the iron, the brass, the silver, and the gold, God has pointed out to the king what shall come to pass after these things; and the dream is true, and the interpretation trustworthy."<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9268_2702375">233</a></sup><br />
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2. If therefore the great God showed future things by Daniel, and confirmed them by His Son; and if Christ is the stone which is cut out without hands, who shall destroy temporal kingdoms, and introduce an eternal one, which is the resurrection of the just; as he declares, "The God of heaven shall raise up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed,"-let those thus confuted come to their senses, who reject the Creator (<i>Demiurgum</i>), and do not agree that the prophets were sent beforehand from the same Father from whom also the Lord came, but who assert that prophecies originated from diverse powers. For those things which have been predicted by the Creator alike through all the prophets has Christ fulfilled in the end, ministering to His Father's will, and completing His dispensations with regard to the human race. Let those persons, therefore, who blaspheme the Creator, either by openly expressed words, such as the disciples of Marcion, or by a perversion of the sense [of Scripture], as those of Valentinus and all the Gnostics falsely so called, be recognised as agents of Satan by all those who worship God; through whose agency Satan now, and not before, has been seen to speak against God, even Him who has prepared eternal fire for every kind of apostasy. For he did not venture to blaspheme his Lord openly of himself; as also in the beginning he led man astray through the instrumentality of the serpent, concealing himself as it were from God. Truly has Justin remarked:<sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn92.htm#P9270_2703890">234</a></sup> That before the Lord's appearance Satan never dared to blaspheme God, inasmuch as he did not yet know his own sentence, because it was contained in parables and allegories; but that after the Lord's appearance, when he had clearly ascertained from the words of Christ and His apostles that eternal fire has been prepared for him as he apostatized from God of his own free-will, and likewise for all who unrepentant continue in the apostasy, he now blasphemes, by means of such men, the Lord who brings judgment [upon him] as being already condemned, and imputes the guilt of his apostasy to his Maker, not to his own voluntary disposition. Just as it is with those who break the laws, when punishment overtakes them: they throw the blame upon those who frame the laws, but not upon themselves. In like manner do those men, filled with a satanic spirit, bring innumerable accusations against our Creator, who has both given to us the spirit of life, and established a law adapted for all; and they will not admit that the judgment of God is just. Wherefore also they set about imagining some other Father who neither cares about nor exercises a providence over our affairs, nay, one who even approves of all sins.<br />
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Vatican City is Apostate and the leader of Pagan Rome at this time and will suffer the fate decreed by God, His faithful are to totally separate from Rome/the Vatican/Babylon/all the Antipopes/all the false-catholic Apostate church.<br />
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1 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 10:1; Ezek.: 43:2<br />
2 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8!; Isaiah: 13:21, 22!<br />
3 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8; 17:2; Jer.: 51:7!; Rev.: 18:9, 15<br />
4 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:45!; 2 Cor.: 6:17!; Eph.: 5:7!; 1 Tim.: 5:22<br />
5 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:9<br />
6 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 50:29!; 2 Thess.: 1:6<br />
7 … Scripture reference – Isaiah: 47:8<br />
8 … Scripture reference –<br />
9 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3; 17:2; 18:18<br />
10 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:15, 16, 17<br />
11 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27;32!<br />
12 … Scripture reference –<br />
13 … Scripture reference –<br />
14 … Scripture reference –<br />
15 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 18:3, 10<br />
16 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:4<br />
17 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:10<br />
18 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:9<br />
19 … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!, 32, 33!<br />
20 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 12:12<br />
21 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:63, 64<br />
22 … Scripture reference – Ezek.:26:13!; Jer.: 25:10!<br />
23 … Scripture reference – Jer.: 25:10!<br />
24 … Scripture reference – Rev.: 16:6!</div>
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The Fall of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Babylon</st1:place></st1:city></div>
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1 ¶ And after these things, I saw another angel come down from heaven, having
great power: and the earth was enlightened with his glory. … Scripture
reference – Rev.: 10:1; Ezek.: 43:2<br />
2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Babylon</st1:place></st1:city> the great is fallen, is fallen:
and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and
the hold of every unclean and hateful bird: … Scripture reference – Rev.:
14:8!; Isaiah: 13:21, 22!<br />
3 Because all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication:
and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her; And the
merchants of the earth have been made rich by the power of her delicacies. …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 14:8; 17:2; Jer.: 51:7!; Rev.: 18:9, 15</div>
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Her Sins and Punishment</div>
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4 And I heard another voice from heaven, saying: Go out from
her, my people; that you be not partakers of her sins and that you receive not
of her plagues. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:45!; 2 Cor.: 6:17!; Eph.:
5:7!; 1 Tim.: 5:22<br />
5 For her sins have reached unto heaven: and the Lord hath remembered her
iniquities. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 51:9<br />
6 Render to her as she also hath rendered to you: and double unto her double,
according to her works. In the cup wherein she hath mingled, mingle ye double
unto her. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 50:29!; 2 Thess.: 1:6<br />
7 As much as she hath glorified herself and lived in delicacies, so much
torment and sorrow give ye to her. Because she saith in her heart: I sit a
queen and am no widow: and sorrow I shall not see. … Scripture reference –
Isaiah: 47:8<br />
8 Therefore, shall her plagues come in one day, death and mourning and famine.
And she shall be burnt with the fire: because God is strong, who shall judge
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9 ¶ [1] And the kings of the earth, who have committed
fornication and lived in delicacies with her, shall weep and bewail themselves
over her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning: … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 18:3; 17:2; 18:18<br />
10 Standing afar off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas! that great
city, <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Babylon</st1:place></st1:city>,
that mighty city: for in one hour is thy judgment come. … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 18:15, 16, 17</div>
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11 And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over
her: for no man shall buy their merchandise any more. … Scripture reference –
Ezek.: 27;32!<br />
12 Merchandise of gold and silver and precious stones: and of pearls and fine
linen and purple and silk and scarlet: and all thyine wood: and all manner of
vessels of ivory: and all manner of vessels of precious stone and of brass and
of iron and of marble:<br />
13 And cinnamon and odours and ointment and frankincense and wine and oil and
fine flour and wheat and beasts [2] and sheep and horses and chariots: and
slaves and souls of men.<br />
14 And the fruits of the desire of thy soul are departed from thee: and all fat
and goodly things are perished from thee. And they shall find them no more at
all.<br />
15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich, shall stand afar off from
her, for fear of her torments, weeping and mourning, … Scripture reference –
Rev.: 18:3, 10<br />
16 And saying: Alas! alas! that great city, which was clothed with fine linen
and purple and scarlet and was gilt with gold and precious stones and pearls. …
Scripture reference – Rev.: 17:4</div>
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And every shipmaster and all that sail into the lake, and
mariners, and as many as work in the sea, stood afar off, … Scripture reference
– Ezek.: 27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:10<br />
18 And cried, seeing the place of her burning, saying: What city is like to
this great city? … Scripture reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!; Rev.: 18:9<br />
19 And they cast dust upon their heads and cried, weeping and mourning, saying:
Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea,
by reason of her prices. For, in one hour she is made desolate. … Scripture
reference – Ezek.: 27:29, 30!, 32, 33!<br />
20 Rejoice over her, thou heaven and ye holy apostles and prophets. For God
hath judged your judgment on her. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 12:12</div>
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21 And a mighty angel took up a stone, as it were a great
millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying: With such violence as this, shall <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Babylon</st1:place></st1:city>, that great city,
be thrown down and shall be found no more at all. … Scripture reference – Jer.:
51:63, 64<br />
22 And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe
and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman [3]
of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of
the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee: … Scripture reference –
Ezek.:26:13!; Jer.: 25:10!<br />
23 And the light of the lamp shall shine no more at all in thee: and the voice
of the bridegroom and the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee. For thy
merchants were the great men of the earth: for all nations have been deceived
by thy enchantments. … Scripture reference – Jer.: 25:10!<br />
24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints and of all that
were slain upon the earth. … Scripture reference – Rev.: 16:6!<br />
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[1] -Ver. 9-19. This passage is not an account of a vision
but rather a direct prophecy, after. the manner of the prophecies of Isaias and
Ezechiel concerning <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tyre</st1:place></st1:city>. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tyre</st1:place></st1:city> furnishes a
type of the vengeance of God upon satanic pride and luxury.<br />
[2] -Ver.13. Beasts [of burden]: the Greek has “cattle.”<br />
[3] –Ver. 22 The city had boasted previously of her craftsmen, skilled in every
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In the below, the Episcopate should not be confused with the Apostolic foundations (Preaching) laid by the Apostles themselves. The Episcopates follow after that in most cases - with the most notable exception being St. James the Brother of the Lord, Bishop of Jerusalem, a disciple of Our Lord Jesus Christ and Apostle sent forth at Pentecost (do not confuse him with James the son of Zebedee nor with James the son of Alpheus, the two James who were part of the original twelve Apostles). Jerusalem is the Mother of all the Churches. The disciples outside of the original twelve, including the 500, are Apostles sent forth as well as the eleven faithful of the original twelve [Judas Iscariot fell and betrayed Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and is damned forever and is not counted after that in the Apostles], St. James the Brother of the Lord, Bishop of Jerusalem, is of course included as an Apostle (1 Corinthians 15:6 "Then he was seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep." This was between the Resurrection and the Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ and these 500 are part of the disciples who were sent forth as Apostles at Pentecost to all nations - the Didache speaks in detail of those sent forth and their Apostolic witness wherever they would go). The Episcopate in its developed sense is a much later term and the original "episcopos" or overseer was any head of any house church and no more. Presbyteros or elder was never anything to do with priests, which were all pagan at that time - except for of course Our Lord Jesus Christ who is the Only High Priest and Only Head of the Church.<br />
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{Eusebius Book 1.1: Then there was JAMES who was known as the brother of the Lord. For he too was called Joseph's son, and Joseph Christ's father, though in fact the Virgin was his betrothed, and before they came together she was found to be with child by the Holy Spirit, as the inspired Gospel narrative tells us. This James, as the, whom the early Christians surnamed the Righteous' because of his outstanding virtue, was the first (as the records tell us) to be elected [Editor's note: he was elected by the local congregation - not appointed by the Apostles] to the episcopal throne of the Jerusalem church.... Clement [Bishop of Rome 88 - 97 A.D. and companion of the Apostles before that], in Outlines Book VI, puts it thus, 'Peter, James and John, after the Ascension of the Saviour, did not claim pre-eminence because the Saviour had especially honored them, but chose James the Righteous as Bishop of Jerusalem.... James the Righteous, John, and Peter were entrusted by the Lord after his resurrection with the higher knowledge. They imparted it to the other apostles, and the other apostles to the seventy...'}<br />
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St. Irenaeus, Against
Heresies, Book III, Chapters I through III </blockquote>
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<o:p> </o:p><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-55.htm#P6120_1360484" target="_top">Irenaeus.</a><o:p> </o:p><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-57.htm#P6151_1380339" target="_top">Irenaeus Against Heresies</a><o:p> </o:p><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-60.htm#P7297_1937859">Book III.</a><o:p> </o:p><o:p> </o:p>Preface. </blockquote>
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Thou hast indeed enjoined
upon me, my very dear friend, that I should bring to light the Valentinian
doctrines [today these are the diabolic illusions of the Marian Apparitions - <a href="http://onlinecatholicbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/marian-apparitions-are-false-stay-true.html">The Best and Most Important Online Catholic Books: Marian Apparitions are False - Stay true to Our Lord Jesus Christ. Have nothing to do with the demonic apparitions of the mother goddess</a>], concealed, as their votaries imagine; that I should exhibit their
diversity, and compose a treatise in refutation of them. therefore have
undertaken-showing that they spring from Simon, the father of all heretics-to
exhibit both their doctrines and successions, and to set forth arguments
against them all. </blockquote>
[See: <a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-58.htm#P6597_1565674">St.
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book I Chapter XXIII - Simon Magus (See Acts Chapter
8 Simon the Magician) attempts to be called Holy Father and be head over the
Church, first heretic attempting to be "Pope"</a>]<br />
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Wherefore, since the conviction of these men and their
exposure is in many points but one work, I have sent unto thee [certain] books,
of which the first comprises the opinions of all these men, and exhibits their
customs, and the character of their behaviour. In the second, again, their
perverse teachings are cast down and overthrown, and, such as they really are,
laid bare and open to view. But in this, the third book I shall adduce proofs
from the Scriptures, so that I may come behind in nothing of what thou hast
enjoined; yea, that over and above what thou didst reckon upon, thou mayest
receive from me the means of combating and vanquishing those who, in whatever
manner, are propagating falsehood. For the love of God, being rich and
ungrudging, confers upon the suppliant more than he can ask from it. Call to
mind then, the things which I have stated in the two preceding books, and,
taking these in connection with them, thou shalt have from me a very copious
refutation of all the heretics; and faithfully and strenuously shalt thou
resist them in defence of the only true and life-giving faith, which the Church
has received from the apostles and imparted to her sons. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">For the Lord of all gave
to His apostles the power of the Gospel, through whom also we have known the
truth, that is, the doctrine of the Son of God; to whom also did the Lord
declare: "He that heareth you, heareth Me; and he that despiseth you,
despiseth Me, and Him that sent Me." </span></b></blockquote>
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[In total Apostasy from this and absolute Satanic adherence to the Antichrist, the damned in Babylon - the Freemasonic Vatican Antipopes and their false Vatican II robber council and the entire "Cardinalate"and "Episcopate" and "Priesthood" - have preached every god <b><i><u>except</u></i></b> the <b>One God Alone, Maker of Heaven and Earth. See: </b><br />
<a href="http://onlinecatholicbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-justice-of-god-abomination-of.html">The Best and Most Important Online Catholic Books: The Justice of God: Abomination of Desolation Assisi I through Assisi VI</a>]</blockquote>
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<a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn73.htm#P7302_1939777">1</a><o:p> </o:p><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-60.htm#P7304_1939792">Chapter I.-The Apostles Did Not Commence to Preach the Gospel, or to Place Anything on Record, Until They Were Endowed with the Gifts and Power of the Holy Spirit. They Preached <b>One God Alone, Maker of Heaven and Earth.</b></a> </blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-60.htm#P7304_1939792"></a><o:p> </o:p>1. WE have learned from none
others the plan of our salvation, than from those through whom the Gospel has
come down to us, which they did at one time proclaim in public, and, at a later
period, by the will of God, handed down to us in the Scriptures, to be the
ground and pillar of our faith.<a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn73.htm#P7306_1940305">2</a> For
it is unlawful to assert that they preached before they possessed "perfect
knowledge," as some do even venture to say, boasting themselves as improvers
of the apostles.<u> For, after our Lord rose from the dead,</u><b style="text-decoration: underline;"> [the apostles] were
invested with power from on high when the Holy Spirit came down [upon them]</b><u>,
were filled from all [His gifts], </u><b style="text-decoration: underline;">and had perfect knowledge: they departed to
the ends of the earth, preaching the glad tidings of the good things [sent]
from God to us</b><u>, and proclaiming the peace of heaven to men,</u><u style="font-weight: bold;"> who indeed do all
equally and individually possess the Gospel of God.</u> Matthew also issued a
written Gospel among the Hebrews<a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn73.htm#P7307_1941032">3</a> in
their own dialect, while Peter and Paul were preaching at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rome</st1:place></st1:city>, and laying the foundations of the
Church. After their departure, Mark, the disciple and interpreter of Peter, did
also hand down to us in writing what had been preached by Peter. Luke also, the
companion of Paul, recorded in a book the Gospel preached by him. Afterwards,
John, the disciple of the Lord, who also had leaned upon His breast, did
himself publish a Gospel during his residence at <st1:city w:st="on">Ephesus</st1:city>
in <st1:place w:st="on">Asia</st1:place>. </blockquote>
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<o:p> </o:p>2. These have all declared to
us that there is one God, Creator of heaven and earth, announced by the law and
the prophets; and one Christ the Son of God. If any one do not agree to these
truths, he despises the companions of the Lord; nay more, he despises Christ
Himself the Lord; yea, he despises the Father also, and stands self-condemned,
resisting and opposing his own salvation, as is the case with all heretics. </blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-60.htm#P7310_1942139">Chapter II.-The Heretics Follow Neither Scripture Nor Tradition.</a> </blockquote>
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<o:p> </o:p><o:p></o:p>1. When, however, they are
confuted from the Scriptures, they turn round and accuse these same Scriptures,
as if they were not correct, nor of authority, and [assert] that they are
ambiguous, and that the truth cannot be extracted from them by those who are
ignorant of tradition. For [they allege] that the truth was not delivered by
means of written documents, but vivâ voce: wherefore also Paul
declared, "But we speak wisdom among those that are perfect, but not the
wisdom of this world."<a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn73.htm#P7312_1942697">4</a> And
this wisdom each one of them alleges to be the fiction of his own inventing,
forsooth; so that, according to their idea, the truth properly resides at one
time in Valentinus, at another in Marcion, at another in Cerinthus, then
afterwards in Basilides, or has even been indifferently in any other opponent,<a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn73.htm#P7313_1943025">5</a> who
could speak nothing pertaining to salvation. For every one of these men, being
altogether of a perverse disposition, depraving the system of truth, is not
ashamed to preach himself. </blockquote>
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<o:p> </o:p>2. But, again, when we refer
them to that tradition which originates from the apostles, [and] which is
preserved by means of the succession of presbyters in the Churches, they object
to tradition, saying that they themselves are wiser not merely than the
presbyters, but even than the apostles, because they have discovered the
unadulterated truth. For [they maintain] that the apostles intermingled the
things of the law with the words of the Saviour; and that not the apostles
alone, but even the Lord Himself, spoke as at one time from the Demiurge, at
another from the intermediate place, and yet again from the Pleroma, but that
they themselves, indubitably, unsulliedly, and purely, have knowledge of the
hidden mystery: this is, indeed, to blaspheme their Creator after a most
impudent manner! It comes to this, therefore, that these men do now consent
neither to Scripture nor to tradition. </blockquote>
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<o:p> </o:p>3. Such are the adversaries
with whom we have to deal, my very dear friend, endeavouring like slippery
serpents to escape at all points. Where-fore they must be opposed at all
points, if per-chance, by cutting off their retreat, we may succeed in turning
them back to the truth. For, though it is not an easy thing for a soul under
the influence of error to repent, yet, on the other hand, it is not altogether
impossible to escape from error when the truth is brought alongside it.</blockquote>
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<o:p></o:p><o:p> </o:p><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/anf01-60.htm#P7317_1944667">Chapter III.-A Refutation of the Heretics, from the Fact That, in the Various Churches, a Perpetual Succession of Bishops Was Kept Up.</a> </blockquote>
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<o:p> </o:p><o:p></o:p>1. It is within the power of
all, therefore, in every Church, who may wish to see the truth, to contemplate
clearly the tradition of the apostles manifested throughout the whole world;
and we are in a position to reckon up those who were by the apostles instituted
bishops in the Churches, and [to demonstrate] the succession of these men to
our own times; those who neither taught nor knew of anything like what these
[heretics] rave about. For if the apostles had known hidden mysteries, which
they were in the habit of imparting to "the perfect" apart and
privily from the rest, they would have delivered them especially to those to
whom they were also committing the Churches themselves. For they were desirous
that these men should be very perfect and blameless in all things, whom also
they were leaving behind as their successors, delivering up their own place of
government to these men; which men, if they discharged their functions
honestly, would be a great boon [to the Church], but if they should fall away,
the direst calamity. </blockquote>
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<o:p> </o:p>2. Since, however, it would
be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all
the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, whether
by an evil self-pleasing, by vainglory, or by blindness and perverse opinion,
assemble in unauthorized meetings; [we do this, I say, ] by indicating that
tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and
universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious
apostles, Peter and Paul; as also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men,
which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops. For it
is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on
account of its pre- eminent authority, {Note <a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/ANF-01/footnote/fn73.htm#P7320_1946616">6</a>} that
is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as the apostolical tradition has been
preserved continuously by those [faithful men] who exist everywhere.<br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><sup><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></sup></span><span class="apple-style-span"><sup><span style="color: black;">Note 6</span></sup></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><sup><span style="color: black;"> </span></sup></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">The Latin
text of this difficult but important clause is, "Ad hanc enim ecclesiam
propter potiorem principalitatem necesse est omnem convenire ecclesiam."
Both the text and meaning have here given rise to much discussion. It is
impossible to say with certainty of what words in the Greek original
"potiorem principalitatem" may be the translation. We are far from
sure that the rendering given above is correct, but we have been unable to
think of anything better. [<b>A most
extraordinary confession. It would be hard to find a worse; but take the
following from a candid Roman Catholic, which is better and more literal:
"For to this Church, on account of more potent principality, it is
necessary that every Church (that is, those who are on every side faithful)</b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="color: black;">resort</span></i></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: black;">; in which Church ever,</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="color: black;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><i><span style="color: black;">by those who are on every side</span></i></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="color: black;">, has been preserved that tradition which
is from the apostles."</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"> (Berington and Kirk, vol. i. p. 252.)
Here it is obvious that the faith was kept at <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rome</st1:place></st1:city>, by</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: black;">those who
resort there</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">from all
quarters. She was a mirror of the Catholic World, owing here orthodoxy to them;
not the Sun, dispensing her own light to others, but the glass bringing their
rays into a focus. See note at end of book iii.] A discussion of the subject
may be seen in chap. xii. of Dr. Wordsworth's</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: black;">St.
Hippolytus and the Church of Rome</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">.<br /><o:p></o:p></span></span></blockquote>
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span>3. The blessed apostles,
then, having founded and built up the Church, committed into the hands of Linus
the office of the episcopate. Of this <b>Linus</b>, Paul makes mention in the Epistles
to Timothy. To him succeeded <b>Anacletus</b>; and after him, in the third place from
the apostles, <b>Clement </b>was allotted the bishopric. This man, as he had seen the
blessed apostles, and had been conversant with them, might be said to have the
preaching of the apostles still echoing [in his ears], and their traditions
before his eyes. Nor was he alone [in this], for there were many still
remaining who had received instructions from the apostles. In the time of this
Clement, no small dissension having occurred among the brethren at Corinth, the
Church in Rome despatched a most powerful letter to the Corinthians, exhorting
them to peace, renewing their faith, and declaring the tradition which it had
lately received from the apostles, proclaiming the one God, omnipotent, the
Maker of heaven and earth, the Creator of man, who brought on the deluge, and
called Abraham, who led the people from the land of Egypt, spake with Moses,
set forth the law, sent the prophets, and who has prepared fire for the devil
and his angels. From this document, whosoever chooses to do so, may learn that
He, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, was preached by the Churches, and may
also understand the apostolical tradition of the Church, since this Epistle is
of older date than these men who are now propagating falsehood, and who conjure
into existence another god beyond the Creator and the Maker of all existing
things. To this Clement there succeeded <b>Evaristus</b>. <b>Alexander</b> followed
Evaristus; then, sixth from the apostles, <b>Sixtus</b> was appointed; after him, <b>Telephorus</b>,
who was gloriously martyred; then <b>Hyginus</b>; after him, <b>Pius</b>; then after him,
<b>Anicetus</b>. <b>Soter</b> having succeeded Anicetus, <b>Eleutherius</b> <u>does now, in the twelfth
place from the apostles, hold the inheritance of the episcopate.</u> In this order,
and by this succession, the ecclesiastical tradition from the apostles, and the
preaching of the truth, have come down to us. And this is most abundant proof
that there is one and the same vivifying faith, which has been preserved in the
Church from the apostles until now, and handed down in truth.</blockquote>
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Bishops there. The two Apostles were Martyred in Rome upon their return by 68 A.D. Linus was the first Bishop of Rome approved by both of the two Apostles Peter and Paul as Bishop. Neither Peter nor Paul were Bishops at Rome ever, but established the Church there by their Apostolic preaching. That preaching as shown forth in the Didache written by all the Apostles in 49 A.D. at the Council of Jerusalem with </span> St. James the Brother of the Lord, Bishop of Jerusalem</span><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> as head of Jerusalem, included the autonomy of all local churches and Church pastors </span></span></b></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">everywhere </span></span></b><b><span style="color: black;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">(bishops - episcopos - overseers). See the Didache, </span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b><a href="http://onlinecatholicbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/baptism-and-didache.html">The Best and Most Important Online Catholic Books: Baptism and the Didache</a><span style="color: black;">. Baptism and the Eucharist, both contained in the Didache, the early Church's instruction manual for all the house churches, was given without any reservation by the Apostles to all local congregations everywhere starting in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost. See:</span></b></span><br />
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See above Note 6 for the core of this - St. Irenaeus records that it was the Church who focused on Rome as bringing their consensus of Apostolic teaching there so Rome would be a good witness (This was because it was where the emperor lived and ruled from and it was important for the Church to give true witness of herself to the Romans beginning with their head. But in no case did it mean the emperor ruled the Church NOR did the Bishop of Rome.)<br />
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"Since, however, it would be very tedious, in such a volume as this, to reckon up the successions of all the Churches, we do put to confusion all those who, in whatever manner, <i>whether by an evil self-pleasing, by vainglory, or by blindness and perverse opinion,</i> assemble in unauthorized meetings [Editor's note: "unauthorized meetings" - the heretical Gnostics are meant and no other, see above: Chapter II.-The Heretics Follow Neither Scripture Nor Tradition. 1. – 3. - the house churches are emphatically not meant as they are mandated by the Council of Jerusalem, 49 A.D., by the Apostles and recorded in the Didache as Irenaeus himself tells us elsewhere and the house churches are also approved of in New Testament Scripture first of all. Also, St. Clement, Bishop of Rome, upholds the Church at Corinth's right to self government, not being taken control of by any Bishop elsewhere including himself]; by <span style="color: red;">indicating that tradition derived from the apostles, of the very great, the very ancient, and universally known Church founded and organized at Rome by the two most glorious apostles, Peter and Paul</span>; as also [by pointing out] the faith preached to men, which comes down to our time by means of the successions of the bishops.<i> For it is a matter of necessity that every Church should agree with this Church, on account of its pre-eminent authority, </i></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial;">"For to this Church, on account of more potent principality, it is necessary that every Church (that is, those who are on every side faithful)</span></b></span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial;">resort</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial;">; in which Church ever,</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial;">by those who are on every side</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial;">, has been preserved that tradition which is from the apostles."</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: black; font-family: Arial;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; color: #222222; font-family: Arial;">...the core of this - St. Irenaeus records that it was the Church who focused on Rome as bringing their consensus of Apostolic teaching there so Rome would be a good witness (This was because it was where the emperor lived and ruled from and it was important for the Church to give true witness of herself to the Romans beginning with their head. <b>But in no case did it mean the emperor ruled the Church NOR did the Bishop of Rome.)</b></span></span>]</blockquote>
that is, the faithful everywhere, inasmuch as the apostolical tradition has been preserved continuously by those [faithful men] who exist everywhere. <span style="color: red;">The blessed apostles, then, having founded and built up the Church</span>, committed into the hands of Linus the office of the episcopate. Of this Linus, Paul makes mention in the Epistles to Timothy. [2 Tim 4:21]" (Irenaeus, book 3, Chapter III.-A Refutation of the Heretics, from the Fact That, in the Various Churches, a Perpetual Succession of Bishops Was Kept Up.)<br />
http://www.bible.ca/b-canon-scriptures-tradition-apostolic-fathers.htm<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times;">"</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Times;">The actual order of the first three so-called bishops of Rome is a greatly disputed matter</span><span style="font-family: Times;">. The oldest tradition is that given by Irenaeus (<i>Adv. Hoer.</i> III. 3. 3) and followed here by Eusebius, according to which the order was </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;">Linus, Anencletus, Clement</span><span style="font-family: Times;">. Hippolytus gives a different order, in which he is followed by many Fathers" (</span><a href="http://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-33-150AD.htm">Philip Schaff, Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol.</a><span style="font-family: Times;"> I, footnote 14)</span><br />
http://www.bible.ca/b-canon-little-historical-evidence-200AD.htm<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
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30-150AD: Church organization the same as in the Bible Blueprint...<br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Times;">The oldest tradition is that given by Irenaeus (<i>Adv. Hoer.</i> III. 3. 3) and followed here by Eusebius, according to which the order was </span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times;">Linus, Anencletus, Clement</span><span style="font-family: Times;">. </span></span><br />
http://www.bible.ca/ntx-organization-historical-development-papal-patriarchal-systems-33-150AD.htm<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Times;">With regard to Peter's Roman episcopate, we can say with confidence that the story had not arisen in the year 180; for Irenaeus, in a work published shortly after that year (Her iii.3), ascribed the establishment of the Roman Church to Paul as well as Peter; and then adds, "the blessed apostles having founded and built the Church, committed the episcopal office to Linus. Of this Linus St. Paul makes mention in his Epistle to Timothy. To him succeeded Anencletus. . . after him Clement succeeded in the third place from the apostles." Thus Linus is made the first bishop of Rome, and his appointment St. Paul's work as much as Peter's. This is the earliest account we have of the succession of the Roman bishops. It is really useless to cite other authorities; for a doctrine so fundamental as Peter's episcopate and its consequences is alleged to be, if true at all, could not but be known to Ireneaus. [352J</span><br />
http://www.bible.ca/cath-salmon-infallibility.htm</div>
SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-25872131149708124842012-11-07T18:00:00.000-08:002012-11-07T18:00:03.952-08:00The Catholic Creed: Nicene Creed at the first Nicene council - 325 A.D,<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://thecatholiccreed.blogspot.com/2008/11/decree-against-communism.html">The Catholic Creed: Nicene Creed at the first Nicene council - 325 A.D,</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of the Father, the only-begotten; that is, of the essence of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father; by whom all things were made both in heaven and on earth; who for us men, and for our salvation, came down and was incarnate and was made man; he suffered, and the third day he rose again, ascended into heaven; from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. And in the Holy Spirit. But those who say: 'There was a time when he was not;' and 'He was not before he was made;' and 'He was made out of nothing,' or 'He is of another substance' or 'essence,' or 'The Son of God is created,' or 'changeable,' or 'alterable'—they are condemned by the holy catholic and apostolic Church.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Note this, it was the Bishops that decided the Nicene Council, not Patriarchs, much less anything called a "Pope," in the modern sense. See: <a href="http://onlinecatholicbooks.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-catholic-creed-early-church.html">The Best and Most Important Online Catholic Books: The Catholic Creed: Early Church governance and then the Canons of Nicaea and Chalcedon</a></span></div>
SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-41310035274993023252012-11-07T15:00:00.000-08:002012-11-08T15:29:29.467-08:00The Catholic Creed: Early Church governance and then the Canons of Nicaea and Chalcedon<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://thecatholiccreed.blogspot.com/2009/01/early-church-governance-and-then-canons.html">The Catholic Creed: Early Church governance and then the Canons of Nicaea and Chalcedon</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 20px;">See below </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: medium;">Nova Versio LXXXIV. Arabic. Canonum Conc. Nicoeni:</span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 20px;">"Let there be only four patriarchs in the whole world as there are four writers of the Gospel, and four rivers, etc. And let there be a prince and chief over them, the lord of the see of the <b>Divine Peter at Rome</b>, according as the Apostles commanded. And after him the lord of the great <b>Alexandria, which is the see of Mark</b>. And the third is <b>the lord of Ephesus, which is the see of John the Divine </b>who speaks divine things. And the fourth and last is my <b>lord of Antioch, which is another see of Peter</b>. And let all the bishops be divided under the hands of these four patriarchs;"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 20px;">(1) <b>Divine Peter at Rome</b> - Peter and Paul both preached their Gospels at Rome - both were based on the <b><i><u>Gospel of Matthew</u></i></b>, the very first written Gospel. Mark (Peter's companion) recorded Peter's Gospel and included Paul's Gospel in his Gospel, the<b><i><u> Gospel of Mark</u></i></b> which he preached most notably at (2) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;"><b>Alexandria, which is the see of Mark</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 19px;">. Luke recorded Paul's Gospel which Paul preached on his journeys, which is the <b><i><u>Gospel of Luke</u></i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 19px;">. After the early Church's witness and Paul's missionary journeys' recorded in the <i><u>Book of the Acts</u></i> the (4) <b><i><u>Gospel of John</u></i></b>, was preached by John, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;"><b>the lord of Ephesus, which is the see of John the Divine. </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;">Peter's first preaching was at Antioch,very shortly after Our Lord Jesus Christ 's Ascension - (4) </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;"><b>lord of Antioch, which is another see of Peter</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;">Thus fully represented is the four Gospels: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;"><b><i><u>Gospel of Matthew</u></i></b>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;"><u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Gospel of Mark</u>,<i style="font-weight: bold;"> </i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;"><u style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">Gospel of Luke</u>, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;"><b><i><u>Gospel of John</u></i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 18px;">And fully represented also is the whole witness of the early Church and the <i><u>Book of the Acts</u></i> including the missionary journeys of Paul and the <i><u>Epistles of the Church</u></i> ending in John's <i><u>Epistles</u></i> and the <u style="font-style: italic;">Apocalypse of John</u> promised him by Our Lord Jesus Christ at the end of the Gospel of John, "What if I will that he wait till I come?" </span><br />
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</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 20px;">"Let there be only four patriarchs in the whole world as there are four writers of the Gospel, and four rivers," - Rome, Alexandria, Ephesus, Antioch. This is truly the original. No one above the others: "And let all the bishops be divided under the hands of these four patriarchs," the Patriarchs and all the Bishops having the Apostolic Authority signified to Peter and all the Apostles by the keys promised to the faithful by Christ. The Didache written by all the Apostles at the only full Church Council in 49 A.D. at Jerusalem mandated all the house churches with full self autonomous authority over themselves. That was upheld by Clement of Rome, one of the four Apostolic Church Fathers with Ignatius, Polycarp and Papias. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 20px;">The four rivers in Eden flowed from their single source, the four Patriarchates have their single source from the Mother of all the Churches which is Jerusalem where the head over all the Church, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; line-height: 19px;"> was Crucified, Died, Buried, Resurrected and Ascended into Heaven and to where just before His Ascension He promised to Return with all of His elect angels visible to all the world in fiery judgement, taking vengeance on those who know not God and obey not the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">28 For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">16 And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God: as God saith: I will dwell in them and walk among them. And I will be their God: and they shall be my people.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">10 Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">12 And all the multitude held their peace: and they heard Barnabas and Paul telling what great signs and wonders God had wrought among the Gentiles by them.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">23 Writing by their hands: The apostles and ancients, brethren, to the brethren of the Gentiles that are at Antioch and in Syria and Cilicia, greeting.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">27 We have sent therefore Judas and Silas, who themselves also will, by word of mouth, tell you the same things.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">28 For it hath seemed good to the Holy Ghost and to us to lay no further burden upon you than these necessary things:</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">30 They therefore, being dismissed, went down to Antioch and, gathering together the multitude, delivered the epistle.</span></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #00007f; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">33 And after they had spent some time there, they were let go with peace by the brethren unto them that had sent them.</span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">LET the ancient customs in Egypt, Libya and Pentapolis prevail, that the Bishop of Alexandria have jurisdiction in all these, since the like is customary for the Bishop of Rome also. Likewise in Antioch and the other provinces, let the Churches retain their privileges. And this is to be universally understood, that if any one be made bishop without the consent of the Metropolitan, the great Synod has declared that such a man ought not to be a bishop. If, however, two or three bishops shall from natural love of contradiction, oppose the common suffrage of the rest, it being reasonable and in accordance with the ecclesiastical law, then let the choice of the majority prevail.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Of the care and power which a Patriarch has over the bishops and archbishops of his patriarchate; and of the primacy of the Bishop of Rome over all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let the patriarch consider what things are done by the archbishops and bishops in their provinces; and if he shall find anything done by them otherwise than it should be, let him change it, and order it, as seemeth him fit: for he is the father of all, and they are his sons. And although the archbishop be among the bishops as an elder brother, who hath the care of his brethren, and to whom they owe obedience because he is over them; yet the patriarch is to all those who are under his power, just as he who holds the seat of Rome, is the head and prince of all patriarchs; in-asmuch as he is first, as was Peter, to whom power is given over all Christian princes, and over all their peoples, as he who is the Vicar of Christ our Lord over all peoples and over the whole Christian Church, and whoever shall contradict this, is excommunicated by the Synod.(1)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #010100; font-family: 'MS Sans Serif'; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Let there be only four patriarchs in the whole world as there are four writers of the Gospel, and four rivers, etc. And let there be a prince and chief over them, the lord of the see of the Divine Peter at Rome, according as the Apostles commanded. And after him the lord of the great Alexandria, which is the see of Mark. And the third is the lord of Ephesus, which is the see of John the Divine who speaks divine things. And the fourth and last is my lord of Antioch, which is another see of Peter. And let all the bishops be divided under the hands of these four patriarchs; and the bishops of the little towns which are under the dominion of the great cities let them be under the authority of these metropolitans. But let every metropolitan of these great cities appoint the bishops of his province, but let none of the bishops appoint him, for he is greater than they. Therefore let every man know his own rank, and let him not usurp the rank of another. And whosoever shall contradict this law which we have established the Fathers of the Synod subject him to anathema.(2) </span></span></div>
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SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-1425996800331401562012-11-07T09:00:00.000-08:002012-11-07T10:15:21.593-08:00The Catholic Creed: The Ultimate Heresy, Universal Earthly Bishop<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://thecatholiccreed.blogspot.com/2008/06/ultimate-heresy.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The Catholic Creed: The Ultimate Heresy</span></a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Apostasy from αποστασία or heresy from αίρεση, what is the difference? In the Early Church Fathers, not much. Heresy was a teaching which lead into apostasy while apostasy meant to leave the faith. Later perceived differences were compiled by the scholastics among others. The basic teaching of the Early Church Fathers is of importance now in the time we are in. In this we can see how false teachings like the synchretist Ecumenical movement are heretical in that they divide Christ by claiming that He is an historical personality but a separate spiritual one accessible to all men through any religion of their choice under any name. This is one of the main tenets of Gnosticism. Gnosticism has always been condemned as heretical and apostate. The heresy of Gnosticism divides Christ and leads men into paganism under the guise of a <b>universalist cosmic Christ which in actuality is the cosmocrator of ancient paganism</b>. That is nothing more than pantheism and is the basis for all paganisms. To embrace that is to apostasize from the faith. Furthermore, the effect it has on society is to produce a relativistic nihilist despair into the void of which the Communist solution presents itself as an answer. The interim stage is the anarchy of every man is an entity unto himself. The Gnostic teachers produced this effect in the Early Church. They were condemned for that as well as the false teachings they promulgated. Increasingly the Church turned to defining ecclesiastical discipline under ecclesiastical law as a result. Invariably the question arose of who was in charge. In the early third century the idea that a single individual was in charge of the Church was considered total Gnostic apostate heresy. Antipopes Zephrynus and Callistus had proposed this at that time and been condemned for it by St. Hippolytus and the bishops of the early church. According to St. Irenaeus, Simon Magus, the one from whom all the Gnostic heresies derived and who guilty of trying to inculcate all sorts of paganism into the faith, had tried this in the first century by trying to make out that he was part of the Godhead, was totally condemned for all of this. By the time of Pope St. Gregory the Great (died 604 A.D.) St. Gregory still condemned the idea that one bishop would be the universal bishop over the whole Church as the precursor of the <b>Antichrist</b>. The Early Church had taught that Gnosticism would be the base for the <b>Antichrist</b> to arise from. The many early Gnostic teachers are like the many today who are a god unto themselves. But the proponents of One Universal Earthly Head over the Church are indeed those who are bringing in the reign of the <b>Antichrist</b>, for that one will try to supplant the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus Christ is the only one Who is head over His Church which He founded by His All Holy Blood. Two variants on a theme, both of which are evil. Anarchy on one hand (just watch evangelical charismatic television for examples) and absolute rule by one fallible individual on the other. Both disasters in the making. Those who recognize the evil of the all pervasive Gnostic reinventions of the Charismatics and Ecumenists then turn to excoriating others by the name they carry such as Catholic and Orthodox, condemning one another. Instead, having recognized the big evil they should be allies in this time, but instead <b>set the stage for the Antichrist by insisting on only one visible eccesiastically defined body with a head</b>. Such insistence is a vain attempt to define every single detail of the faith. In fact the Early Church taught that if the simple doctrine held by a body of believers was in fact Catholic, that is reflecting the true teaching of the Apostles, then it was genuine; they did not insist that every imaginable detail be defined before a body of believers be recognized as true. On the other hand they did not tolerate evil teachings masquerading as true, such as simony or permissive unrepented continual amorality, especially abortion – which they justly condemned as willful murder, or claiming that idolatrous pagans were in fact somehow worshipping the True God (which is they do NOT, of course); all Gnostic inventions, now reinvented by the Charismatics and Ecumenists.</span><br />
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The effect that all the above has on society in terms of moral norms and civil society is two fold and two staged. One — the anarchy of the hedonists and the subsequent paralysing of moral law (mores and folkways, expected by society). Two — the abrogating of Church teaching on right and wrong and the replacement of decency with nihilism. Sandwiched in between is an amoral society that pretends it is moral and relies on a façade of appearance. This is the sure recipe for the dissolution of society on the heels of the mentality of naturalistic so-called enlightenment.</span><br />
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In both the cases of faith and religion and of society in general, anarchy replaced nihilism is the destruction of revealed truth and order. It is devolvement and not evolutionary (as if anything could evolve, it surely can't). It is entropy in the realm of human relations and never enthalpy. It is doom in short order.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Epistle LXVIII.</span></div>
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Andrew of Nicopolis, John of Corinth, John of Prima Justiniana, John of Crete,
John of Larissa and Scodra, and many other bishops.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We are constrained by the care of government which we have
undertaken to extend vigilantly the solicitude of our office, and to instruct
the minds of our brethren by addresses of admonition, that no wrongful
presumption. may avail to deceive the ignorant, nor any dissimulation to excuse
those who know. Be it known then to your Fraternity that John, formerly bishop
of the city of Constantinople, against God, against the peace of the Church, to
the contempt and injury of all priests, exceeded the bounds of modesty and of
his own measure, and unlawfully usurped in synod the proud and <b>pestiferous
title of oecumenical</b>, that is to say, <b>universal</b>. When our predecessor Pelagius
of blessed memory became aware of this, he annulled by a fully valid censure
all the proceedings of that same synod, except what had therein been done in
the cause of Gregory, bishop of Antioch, of venerable memory; taking him to
task with most severe rebuke, and warning him to abstain from that new and
temerarious name of superstition; even so as to forbid his deacon to go in
procession <a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-13/footnote/fn3.htm#P352_94322">46</a> with
him, unless he should amend so great a wickedness. And we, adhering in all
respects to the zeal of his rectitude, observe his ordinances, under the
protection of God, irrefragably, since it is fitting that he should walk
without stumbling along the straight way of his predecessor, whom the tribunal
of the eternal Judge awaits for rendering an account of the same place of
government. In which matter, lest we should seem to omit anything that pertains
to the peace of the Church, we once and again addressed the same most holy John
by letter, bidding him relinquish that name of pride, and incline the elation
of his heart to the humility which our Master and Lord has taught us. And
having found that he paid no regard, we have not desisted, in our desire of
concord, from addressing the like admonitions to our most blessed brother and
fellow-priest Cyriacus, his successor. <b>But since it is the case, as we see, now
that the end of this world is near at hand, that the enemy of the human race [The Antichrist] has already appeared in his harbingers [the antichrists], so as to have as his precursors,
through this title of pride, the very priests who ought to have opposed him by
living well and humbly, I exhort and entreat that not one of you ever accept
this name, that not one consent to it, that not one write it, that not one
admit it wherever it may have been written, or add his subscription to it; but,
as becomes ministers of Almighty God, that each keep himself from this kind of
poisoned infection, and give no place to the cunning lier-in-wait, since this
thing is being done to the injury and rendering asunder of the whole Church,
and, as we have said, to the contemning of all of you. <u>For if one, as he
supposes, is universal bishop, it remains that you are not bishops.</u> [- The authority of Bishops is upheld. At the never formally declared Vatican I the Papist usurper then tried to reduce Bishops to servile courtiers.]</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>{Herein we have the warning from Pope St. Gregory the Great which declares that not he (elsewhere, see below for one example, he enjoins the rule of the Church Councils that recognizes four EQUAL in Authority Patriarchates, to wit Gregory's words below: <i>"But they are so impregnated with the taint of error that, giving credence to their own ignorance, they reject the universal Church, and all the four patriarchs, not with reason, but with malicious intent;"</i>) </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Pope St. Gregory the Great elsewhere recognizes three co-equal Sees of Peter: Rome, Antioch and Alexandria, which is in accordance with early Church Law and Tradition. Jerusalem was always the Mother of all the Churches. The Four equal Patriarchates are: </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>}</b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Furthermore, it has come to our knowledge that your
Fraternity has been convened to <st1:place w:st="on">Constantinople</st1:place>.
And although our most pious Emperor allows nothing unlawful to be done there,
yet, lest perverse men, taking occasion of your assembly, should seek
opportunity of cajoling you in favouring this name of superstition, or should
think of holding a synod about some other matter, with the view of introducing
it therein by cunning contrivances,-though without the authority and consent of
the Apostolic See nothing that might be passed would have any force,
nevertheless, before Almighty God I conjure and warn you, that the assent of
none of you be obtained by any blandishments, any bribes, any threats whatever;
but, having regard to the eternal judgment, acquit ye yourselves salubriously
and unanimously in opposition to wrongful aims; and, supported by pastoral
constancy and apostolical authority, keep out the robber and the wolf that
would rush in, and give no way to him that rages for the tearing of the Church
asunder; nor allow, through any cajolery, a synod to be held on this subject,
which indeed would not be a legitimate one, nor to be called a synod. We also
at the same time admonish you, that if haply nothing should be done with
mention of this preposterous name, but a synod be by any chance assembled on
another matter, ye be in all respects cautious, circumspect, watchful, and
careful, lest anything should therein be decreed against any place or person
prejudicially, or unlawfully, or in opposition to the canons. But, if any
question arises to be treated with advantage, let the question in hand take
such a form that it may not upset any ancient ordinances. Wherefore we once
more admonish you before God and His Saints, that you observe all these things
with the utmost attention, and with the entire bent of your minds. For if any
one, as we do not believe will be the case, should disregard in any part this present
writing, let him know that he is segregated from the peace of the blessed
Peter, the Prince of the Apostles. Let, then, your Fraternity so act that when
the Shepherd of shepherds comes in judgment, you may not be found guilty with respect
to the place of government which you have received.</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336688; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-13/Npnf2-13-04.htm#P183_29752" style="color: #336688; text-decoration: none;">Pope St. Gregory the Great - Epistle XI - <b>Pestiferous</b></a></span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">With what firmness the mind of your Excellency is settled in
the fear of Almighty God you shew in a praiseworthy manner, among the other
good things that you do, by your love also of His priests; and great joy for
your Christianity is caused us, since you study to advance with honours those
whom you love and venerate as being truly Christ's servants. For it becomes
you, most excellent daughter, it becomes you to be such as to be able to
subject yourself to a lord above you. For in submitting the neck of your mind
to the fear of the Almighty Lord you confirm your dominion also over subject
nations, and by subjecting yourself to the service of the Creator you bind your
subjects the more devotedly to yourself. Wherefore, having received your
letters, we signify to you that your Excellency's earnest desire has greatly
pleased us, and we have been desirous of sending the pallium to our brother and
fellow-bishop Syagrius <a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-13/footnote/fn1.htm#P188_32106">20</a> ,
inasmuch as the disposition of our most serene lord the Emperor is also
favourable, and, so far as we have been informed by our deacon, who was the
representative of our Church at his Court, he is altogether desirous that this
thing should be granted <a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-13/footnote/fn1.htm#P189_33133">21</a> ,
and many good reports have reached us of our aforesaid brother both on your
testimony and that of others; and especially we learnt what his life is from
John the Regionarius <a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-13/footnote/fn1.htm#P190_33435">22</a> on
his return to us. And hearing what he did in the case of our brother Augustine,
we bless our Redeemer, because we feel that he fulfils in his deeds the meaning
of his name of priest.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But there have been many hindrances which have meanwhile
prevented us from doing this thing. First indeed, that he who had come to
receive this pallium is implicated in the error of the schismatics <a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-13/footnote/fn1.htm#P192_34163">23</a> ;
further, that you wished it to be understood that it was sent, not on your
petition, but froth ourselves. But there was this besides; that neither had he
who desires to use it requested it to be granted him by a special petition
addressed to us: and it was by no means right for us to concede so great a
matter without his request; especially as an ancient custom has obtained, that
the dignity of the pallium shall not be given except when the merits of a case
demand it, and to one who urgently requests it. Still, lest we should seem
perchance to wish, under pretext of any excuse, to put off the desire of your
Excellency, we have provided for the pallium being sent to our most beloved son
Candidus the presbyter, charging him, with befitting precaution, to deliver it
in our stead. Hence it is requisite that our above-written brother and
fellow-bishop Syagrius must hope for it, when he has of his own motion drawn up
a petition with some of his bishops; and this he must give to the aforesaid
presbyter, to the end that he may be in a position to obtain properly the use
of the same pallium with the favour of God.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In order, then, that the charge you bear may be of fruit to
you before the eyes of our Creator, let the solicitude of your Christianity be
diligently on the watch, and suffer no one who is under your dominion to attain
to holy orders by the giving of money, or the patronage of any persons
whatever, or by right of relationship; but let such a one be elected to the
episcopate, or to the office of any other sacred order, as his life and manners
have shewn to be worthy; lest if, as we do not expect, the dignity of the
priesthood should be venal, simoniacal heresy, which was the first to come up
in the Church, and has been condemned by the sentence of the Fathers, should
arise in your parts, and (which God forbid) should weaken the powers of your
kingdom. For it is a serious matter, and a wickedness beyond what can be told,
to sell the Holy Spirit, who redeemed all things.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">But let this also be your care, that, since, as you know,
the excellent preacher entirely forbids a novice to accede to the ruling
position of priesthood, you suffer no one to be consecrated bishop from being a
layman. For what sort of master will he be who has not been a disciple? Or what
kind of leadership can he supply to the Lord's flock who has not been
previously subjected to a shepherd's discipline? If, then, any one's life
should be such as to shew him worthy of being promoted to this order, he ought
first to serve in the ministry of the Church, to the end that by the experience
of long practice he may see what to imitate, and learn what to teach; lest
perchance the newness of his charge bear not the burden of government, and
occasion of ruin arise from the immaturity of his promotion.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Moreover, how your Excellency conducted yourself towards our
brother and fellow-bishop Augustine, and how great charity, through the
inspiration of God, you bestowed upon him, we have leaner from the relation of
divers of the faithful; for which we return thanks, and implore the mercy of
Divine Power to keep you here under its protection, and cause you to reign, as
among men, so also after a course of many years in life eternal.</span></div>
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from the unity of the Church, strive ye, for your own reward, to recall to the
unity of concord. For on no other ground are they enveloped so far in the
blindness of their ignorance but that they may escape ecclesiastical
discipline, and have licence to live perversely as they please, since they
understand neither what they defend nor what they follow. But as for us, we
venerate and follow in all respects the synod of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Chalcedon</st1:place></st1:city>, from which they take to themselves
the clouds of a <b>pestiferous excuse</b>; and, if any one should presume to diminish
or add anything with regard to the faith thereof, we anathematize him. <b>But they
are so impregnated with the taint of error that, giving credence to their own
ignorance, they reject the universal Church, and all the four patriarchs, not
with reason, but with malicious intent;</b> so that he who was sent to us by your
Excellency, when he was asked by us why he stood separated from the universal
Church, acknowledged that he did not know. But neither what he said nor what
else he gave ear to had he the power of knowing. As to this also we no less
exhort you, that you should restrain the rest of your subjects under the
control of discipline from sacrificing to idols, being worshippers of trees, or
exhibiting sacrilegious sacrifices of the heads of animals; seeing that it has
come to our ears that many of the Christians both resort to the churches and
also (horrible to relate!) do not give up their worshipping of demons. But,
since these things are altogether displeasing to our God, and He does not own
divided minds, provide ye for their being salubriously restrained from these
unlawful practices; lest (God forbid it!) the sacrament of holy baptism serve
not for their rescue, but for their punishment. If therefore you know of any
that are violent, if of any that are adulterers, if of any that are thieves, or
bent on other wicked deeds, make haste to appease God by their correction, that
He may not bring upon you the scourge due to unfaithful races, which, so far as
we see, is already lifted up for the punishment of many nations; lest, if-as we
do not believe will be the case-the wrath of Divine vengeance should be kindled
by the doings of the wicked, the plague of war should destroy the sinners whom
the precepts of God recall not to the way of rectitude. We must, then, needs
make haste, with all earnestness and continual prayer, to betake ourselves to
the mercy of our Redeemer, wherein there is a place of safety and great
security for all. For whoso steadfastly abides there, him danger crushes not,
nor fear alarms.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">We have sent the volume, as you desired us by letter, to our
aforesaid most beloved son Candidus the presbyter, to be offered to you, being
in haste to be sharers in your good purpose. May Almighty God keep you under
His protection, and by His outstretched arm defend your kingdom from
unbelieving nations, and bring you after long courses of years to eternal joys.
Given in the month of October, the first indiction <a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-13/footnote/fn1.htm#P198_40754">24</a></span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #336688; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #333333;"><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-13/Npnf2-13-04.htm#P476_149017" style="color: #336688; text-decoration: none;">Pope St. Gregory the Great - Epistle CX - <b>Pestiferous</b></a></span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Since the renown of your kingdom has been resplendent of old among all others by the grace of the Christian religion, great pains should be taken that, wherein you stand out more glorious than other nations, you should therein please more perfectly the Almighty Lord who gives health and wealth to kings, and have the faith which you observe in all ways helpful to you. We had wished indeed, most excellent sons, to address to you a discourse of friendly greeting only, so as to shew our fatherly affection in offices of charity. But, seeing that an unlawful proceeding distresses us exceedingly, it befits us so to exhibit one thing as by no means to pass over in silence the other which needs amendment. If you give diligent attention, you will find that we speak entirely for the security of your well-being.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now it is said that simoniacal heresy (which was the first to creep in by the devil's planting against the Church of God, and was at its very rise smitten and condemned by the weapon of apostolical vengeance) prevails within the limits of your kingdom, though faith together with good life ought to be chosen in priests.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">If good life is wanting, faith has no merit, as the blessed James attests, who says,<i> Faith without works is dead </i>(Jam; ii. 18). But what can be the works of a priest who is convicted of obtaining the dignity of so great a sacrament by a bribe? Thus it is brought about that even the very persons who are desiring sacred orders take no pains to amend their lives or order their conduct, but busy themselves in amassing wealth wherewith to buy sacred dignity. Hence also it comes to pass that the innocent and poor recoil from sacred orders, being debarred and looked down upon. And while the innocence of the poor man displeases, there is no doubt that the bribe in the other case commends delinquencies; for, where gold pleases, so does vice. Hence, therefore, not only is a deadly wound inflicted on the souls of the ordainer and of the ordained, but also the Kingdom of your Excellence is weighed down by the fault of your bishops, by whose intercessions it ought rather to have been aided. For, if he is thought worthy of the priesthood who is supported, not by the merits of his doings, but by the abundance of his bribes, it remains that neither gravity nor industry can put in any claim for ecclesiastical dignities, but that the profane love of gold obtains all. And, while vices are remunerated with dignity, he is promoted to the place of the avenger who perhaps ought to have vengeance executed on himself; and hence priests are shewn not to profit others, but rather themselves to perish. For, when the shepherd is wounded, who may apply medicine for healing the sheep? Or how shall he protect the people with the shield of prayer who exposes himself to be stricken by hostile darts? Or what kind of fruit shall he produce out of himself, whose root is infected by sore disease? Greater calamity, then, is to be apprehended in those places where such intercessors are promoted to places of rule, being such as to provoke the more the anger of God against themselves which they ought, through themselves, to have appeased in behalf of the people.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Moreover, we have heard that the farms of the Churches do not pay tribute; and we are consequently lost in great surprise, if unlawful payments be sought from those to whom even lawful ones are remitted <sup><a href="http://www.bible.ca/history/fathers/NPNF2-13/footnote/fn4.htm#P484_152519">72</a></sup> .</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Nor does our solicitude allow us to pass over this evil also; that some, lured by the instigation of vain glory, snatch all at once, from a lay condition of life, at the dignity of priesthood, and (what it shames one to say, though it is too serious a matter to pass over in silence) those who require to be ruled neither blush nor fear to appear as rulers, and those that require to be taught as teachers. Persons assume shamelessly the leadership of souls to whom the whole way to be taken by the leader is unknown, and who know not whither even they themselves are walking. How bad and how venturesome this is, is shewn even by secular order and discipline. For, seeing that a leader of an army is not chosen unless he has been tried in labour and carefulness, let those who desire with immature haste to mount to the height of episcopacy consider, at any rate by the aid of this comparison, of what sort leaders of souls should be; and let them abstain from attempting suddenly untried labours, lest a blind ambition for dignity both be to their own penalty and also sow seeds of <b>pestiferous</b> error to others, they themselves not having learnt what they have to teach. Accordingly, greeting you with fatherly affection, we beg, most excellent sons, that you would be at pains to banish this so detestable an evil from the limits of your kingdom, and that no excuse, no suggestion against your soul, find place with you; since he who neglects to amend what he is able to correct, undoubtedly has the guilt of the doer. Wherefore, that you may be able to offer a great gift to Almighty God, order a synod to be assembled, in which (as we have enjoined our brethren and fellow-bishops), in the presence of our most beloved son the abbot Cyriacus, it may be ordained under the obligation of anathema that no one may ever give and no one ever receive anything for an ecclesiastical order, nor any one of the laity pass all at once to the priesthood; that so our Redeemer, whose priests you suffer not to be ruined among themselves by the enemy, may recompense you for this service both here and in the life to come.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Furthermore, we are altogether astonished that in your kingdom you allow Jews to possess Christian slaves. For what are all Christians but members of Christ? The Head of these members we all know that you honour faithfully: but let your Excellency consider how inconsistent it is to honour the Head and to allow His members to be trodden on by His enemies. And so, we beg that an ordinance of your Excellency may remove the evil of this wrong-doing from your kingdom, that you may thus shew yourselves the more. to be worthy worshippers of Almighty God, in that you set free His faithful servants from His enemies.</span></div>
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EDITOR’S PREFACE<br />
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Réné-Francois Guettée was ordained a Roman Catholic priest at Blois, France in the year<br />
1839. Almost immediately following his ordination he set out on a monumental task conceived in his<br />
mind a few years earlier. To research and then write a complete “History of the Church of France”.<br />
It was this innocent endeavor that would soon lead him to unexpected discoveries and inescapable<br />
conclusions concerning the papacy (This book being the fruit of those labors).<br />
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With patience and care Guettée skillfully sweeps away the rubble of misconception and fraud<br />
that obscured the pristine voice of Church Fathers and their genuine apostolic witness. His<br />
impeccable proofs shattering the pretensions and anti-Catholic innovations of Rome whose<br />
foundation was evidently no longer Christ. Instead she is shown to have chosen a different<br />
cornerstone and a most fallible substitute.<br />
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He reveals how this former apostolic see once renowned for her orthodoxy would, through<br />
worldly arrogance and pride insert her single unaccountable bishop as the principal overseer of the<br />
Church, thus negating the ancient apostolic model for governance. Its effect, a continuing denial and<br />
illegitimate replacement for the Churches One and True Head.<br />
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In Chapter V Father Guettée presents a series of letters written by Pope Gregory the Great (6th C). These letters to the Patriarch of Constantinople, John the Faster are responses to what he<br />
construes as John’s attempts to be recognized as the Church’s Universal Bishop or Bishop of<br />
Bishops. A notion he thoroughly and absolutely condemns as inspired by the devil. (He being the<br />
first born of those who attempt by self exaltation to ascend a place not theirs.) Forcefully and with<br />
great clarity he vigorously denies such prerogative for any Apostolic See including the one he himself<br />
now presides over, Rome.<br />
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In these pages, the reader will also find in abundance meticulous scholarship and perhaps for<br />
the first time insight as to what is genuine Catholic ecclessiology. Father Guettée remains ever<br />
faithful to the Vincentian model in his approach. This is a rule eminently Catholic and necessary<br />
when examining matters of The Faith.<br />
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<b>XX: The Notes of a true Catholic</b> (an excerpt from St. Vincent of Lerins Commonitory 5th C)<br />
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This being the case, he is the true and genuine Catholic who loves the truth of God, who<br />
loves the Church, who loves the Body of Christ, who esteems divine religion and the<br />
Catholic Faith above everything, above the authority, above the regard, above the genius,<br />
above the eloquence, above the philosophy, of every man whatsoever; <i><u>who sets light by all</u></i><br />
<i><u>of these, and continuing steadfast and established in the faith, resolves that he will believe</u></i><br />
<i><u>that, and that only, which he is sure the Catholic Church has held universally and from</u></i><br />
<i><u>ancient time.</u></i><br />
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Confronted by the complete and unfiltered testimony of the Church Fathers and having<br />
examined in depth the undeniable historic records, Father Guettée found that Treasure and Pearl of<br />
Great Price. (The One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church) He would not for the sake of career and<br />
promised honors be silenced. For that courage and intellectual honesty we can all be grateful.<br />
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Kevin M. Kirwan<br />
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1999<br />
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<b><u><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">AUTHOR’S INTRODUCTION.</span></u></b></div>
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<b>THE</b> Pope is a king, and pretends to be sovereign pontiff of the Christian Church. We do not<br />
propose to occupy ourselves with his royalty. To what advantage ? It will soon fall. Its ruin is<br />
decreed by Providence. Foreign bayonets will no more save it than the sophisms of its defenders. If,<br />
as is affirmed, these are necessary to uphold the sovereign pontificate, it is but another reason for<br />
desiring its fall-because this pontificate is an usurpation. This we proceed to demonstrate in the<br />
present work. To reach this end we shall have recourse neither to questionable arguments nor to<br />
declamation. Facts drawn from original sources are summoned as witnesses. We take the Roman<br />
episcopate at the origin of Christianity, follow it through centuries, and are able to prove<br />
incontestably, that during eight centuries the spiritual Papacy, as we understand it at the present day,<br />
had no existence; that the bishop of Rome was during three centuries only a bishop, with the same<br />
rank as the others; that in the fourth century he received a primacy of honor without universal<br />
jurisdiction; that this honor has no other foundation than the decrees of the Church; that his restricted jurisdiction over certain neighboring churches is supported only upon a custom legalized by Councils.<br />
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As for the universal sovereignty, absolute, of <i>divine right</i>--in other words, the Papacy--facts<br />
and catholic testimony of the first eight centuries condemn instead of sustaining it.<br />
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History reveals to us the Papacy, after several fruitless attempts, taking its birth from<br />
circumstances and establishing itself in the ninth century, with its double political and ecclesiastical<br />
character. Its real founder was Adrian I Nicholas I chiefly contributed to its development; Gregory<br />
VII. raised it to its loftiest pitch.<br />
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Adrian I. was in fact the first Pope. They who before this occupied the see of Rome, were<br />
only bishops, successors, not of St. Peter, as has been declared and repeated to satiety, but of Linus,<br />
who was already bishop of Rome when St. Peter arrived in that city, to seal there by his martyrdom<br />
the faith he had preached. The defenders of the Papacy commit, therefore, at the outset, one of the<br />
grossest historical errors in carrying back the Papacy, that is, the Papal sovereignty, to the origin of<br />
Christianity. This error has led them to a thousand others, impelled, as they have been, to seek proofs<br />
for the support of this false theory in the history of the Church and in the writings of the ancient<br />
fathers. They have thus wrested facts and distorted testimonies. They have even dared to attack Holy<br />
Scripture, and by delusive anti-Catholic interpretation, made it bear false witness in favor of their<br />
system. It is thus that the Church of Rome was the first to give example of those individual interpretations for which she so bitterly reproaches Protestantism. She was the first to abandon the<br />
Catholic rule of the interpretation of the sacred books; she has put aside the collective interpretation<br />
of which the fathers of the Church have been the faithful echoes, and upon her own authority she has<br />
presumed to discover in Scripture that which the Church Catholic has not found there. She has come<br />
thus to arrogate for her usurped sovereignty a divine foundation. She has drawn from this principle<br />
all its consequences; the Pope has become the vicar of Jesus Christ, the necessary centre of the<br />
Church, the pivot of Christianity, the infallible organ of heaven. These Papal errors were so skillfully<br />
disseminated in the western countries that they were there gradually adopted. The protests which<br />
they drew forth were indeed continued, but partaking of the spirit of the age, they were not<br />
sufficiently pointed; such even as were raised against the abuses of the Papacy, admitted as beyond<br />
question a divine basis for that institution.<br />
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At the present day, these errors have penetrated not only among the clergy and religious men;<br />
the rationalists--anti-Christians themselves--admit the idea that the Pope is the sovereign chief of the<br />
Christian Church, and that his spiritual prerogatives are derived from Jesus Christ. Many Protestants<br />
themselves do not conceive of a Catholic Church without a Pope, and see this church only in the<br />
Roman Church.1<br />
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We ourselves have been misled by the common error, taught as we had been to regard it as a<br />
revealed and incontestable verity.<br />
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1 The author thus touches two of the greatest advantages which modern writers, unfortunately, concede to the Papists: 1st, That of identifying historical Christianity with the Mediæval Roman system; 2d. That of calling the Trentine Church the <i>Catholic</i> Church.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>See the Complete Book by the Abbe Réné-Francois Guettée</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">In this passage a concluding statement is given by St. Irenaeus (180 A.D.) concerning the Gnostics' (Especially of the school of Valentinus) magical illusions and practices centered around their many gods (vis a vis in the modern age Karol Wojtyla's abominable Assisi gatherings) all emanating from the Mother goddess. The Valentinian Gnostics, in their blasphemous heretical sect had reformed the true Jesus Christ and His blessed mother into a version of the ancient pagan goddess-god of the Graeco-Egyptian Isis-Horus cult. The Marian apparitions are a modern version of that.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">“St. Anthony of the desert (St. Athanasius’ teacher in the Catholic faith) said that demonic apparitions are never to be heeded because, although there may be some or appear to be some factual truth in them, because of their origin they will always be false and heeding them or turning aside after them in any way will only help the Devil to carry out whatever scheme that the evil one is attempting.” –</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Also, St. Anthony said that true apparitions given by the true God will always bring peace and joy and never terror. He said terror in an apparition means the apparition is always from the evil one. Also, he said that God brings healing and not disease and death. Remember Portugal and many other of the “apparitions” – terror, disease and death. St. Anthony also said when there is any doubt at all, ask “who and whence” of the apparition with firm faith and if it is false it will not be able to claim that it is God. Some of the seers tried this and instead of an immediate and straightforward affirmation that it was truly from God they got evasive answers. Remember the devil in the garden of Eden, evasive. There is no doubt that God walked with St. Anthony for many miracles of healing and deliverance from demonic oppression were given him to do by God. St. Anthony also was the founding stone by which the coenobitic monastic movement had its beginning (prior to St. Pachomius) and from that movement spread the Gospel in the 4th century and continued on through the centuries, including such notables as St. Benedict of Nursia/Umbria and St. Patrick and St. Columban of Ireland etc. Also, St. Irenaeus’ (180 A.D.) teaching on visions given by God is the same as St. Anthony’s. The council of Trent taught that nothing can be declared doctrine unless it has the full consensus of the Church Fathers (last of the Fathers in the west is St. Isadore of Seville, 636 A.D. and last in the East is St. John Damascene, mid 8th century) to support it.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 ¶ (12-18 ) And he stood upon the sand of the sea. (13-1) And I saw a beast coming up out the sea, having seven heads and ten horns: and upon his horns, ten diadems: and upon his heads, names of blasphemy.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">2 And the beast which I saw was like to a leopard: and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion. And the dragon gave him his own strength and great power.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">3 And I saw one of his heads as it were slain to death: and his death’s wound was healed. And all the earth was in admiration after the beast.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">4 And they adored the dragon which gave power to the beast. And they adored the beast, saying: Who is like to the beast? And who shall be able to fight with him?</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">5 And there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies: and power was given to him to do, two and forty months.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">6 Andhe opened his mouth unto blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name and his tabernacle and them that dwell in heaven.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And power was given him over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">8 And all that dwell upon the earth adored him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb which was slain from the beginning of the world.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">10 He that shall lead into captivity shall go into captivity: he that shall kill by the sword must be killed by the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">11 ¶ And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth: and he had two horns, like a lamb: and he spoke as a dragon.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">12 And he executed all the power of the former beast in his sight. And he caused the earth and them that dwell therein to adore the first beast, whose wound to death was healed.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">13 And he did great signs, so that he made also fire to come down from heaven unto the earth, in the sight of men.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">14 And he seduced them that dwell on the earth, for the signs which were given him to do in the sight of the beast: saying to them that dwell on the earth that they should make the image of the beast which had the wound by the sword and lived.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">15 And it was given him to give life to the image of the beast: and that the image of the beast should speak: and should cause that whosoever will not adore the image of the beast should be slain.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">16 And he shall make all, both little and great, rich and poor, freemen and bondmen, to have a character in their right hand or on their foreheads:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18 Here is wisdom. He that hath understanding, let him count the number of the beast. For it is the number of a man: and the number of him is six hundred sixty-six.</span><br />
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SntMartyrhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11197760281270769367noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-44509873243382737082012-11-05T09:00:00.000-08:002015-08-12T15:11:40.053-07:00The Great Purification Hoax = Catholic Charismatic version of the Secret Rapture inverted<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: medium;">One small example of this is here </span><a href="http://thegreatpurification.wordpress.com/about/"><span class="Apple-style-span">Raison d’être | The Great Purification</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Both the Secret Rapture and the Great Purification are Satanic doctrines with a connection between them. That connection is their base which is Pantheistic nihilism. In both God is only a Gnostic concept invented by man and used by man to his own purposes. This is strictly and only the temptation of Satan in the garden to Adam and Eve to be their own gods. It will always utterly and completely fail. God is the creator of heaven and earth and only He is to be worshiped and obeyed. In the Satanic false doctrine of the Secret Rapture, which was lifted straight out of Antichrist Talmudic Lurianic Kabbalism, the "faithful" are supposedly whisked invisibly out of the world by the immanent ruler of this world (Satan) - this is exactly like the Jews being whisked secretly out of Auschwitz to become forevermore money grubbing survivors of the actual holocaust (literally burnt offering) of all the Gentiles murdered by the Zionist Communist holocide machine in two world wars and counting. In the Great Purification this is all inverted and we all remain where we are, but in this LIE, there is NO Second Coming of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ - instead we are all, or some, are cleansed without need of confessing Christ as Lord and Saviour. The absolute and utter blasphemy of the Great Purification is to deny the <a href="http://traditional-catholic-prayers.blogspot.com/search/label/Cross%20and%20Resurrection%20-%20Eucharist">Resurrection of Christ</a> and our own <a href="http://traditional-catholic-prayers.blogspot.com/search/label/Resurrection">resurrection</a> and the <a href="http://bellesheures.wordpress.com/christ-will-return-to-judgement-at-the-end-of-this-age/">JUDGEMENT</a> that comes with the <a href="http://traditional-catholic-prayers.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Catholic%20Creed%3A%20The%20Resurrection%20of%20the%20Lord%20Jesus%20Christ">resurrection</a> when at His Parousia, Second Coming, Nuzul i Isa, Qiyamah, Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ returns physically from heaven with all His elect angels and resurrects all men that have ever lived upon this earth and judges them for eternity. The saved are saved by <a href="http://bellesheures.wordpress.com/confession-of-faith-in-the-true-god/">confession in Christ and thereby - by His Kenosis</a>, and nothing else and in no other way.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This year, the United Artists for Peace is celebrating its 10th Assisi Peace festival to</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne, President and Founder of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sarvodaya</st1:city> , <st1:country-region w:st="on">Sri Lanka</st1:country-region></st1:place></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Dr. Hans Urlich Gerber, World Council of Churches General Secretariat, Director of</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Brother Bernard Couvillion, Superior-General, Order of the Brothers of the Sacred</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Topic: What are the opportunities presented by the International Day of Peace and</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Dr. Hayder Abdul Karim, Coordinator , <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place> Interreligious Council</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> Dr. Rabbi Ron Kronish, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Secretary</st1:city> <st1:state w:st="on">General</st1:state>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place> Interreligious Coordinating</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Not only did the Satanic Apostate Jew Impostor Antipope Karol Wojtyla (he was born of a Jewess, Kaczorowska) conjure up the Satanic inter-idolatrous Apostasy prayer at Assisi but he blamed it all on the Holy Spirit, for which he is damned forever.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This is Blaspheming the Holy Spirit for which there is no forgiveness, not now and never for all eternity.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 19px;">All the pagans that were brought together at Assisi and that includes the representatives of the Muslim religion (who although the Quran states that Jesus Christ is the Word of God, and therefore is course the Son of God, do not believe that, and are therefore not worshipers of the true God; to accept Him instead of being the Messiah </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">as only <i><u>a</u></i> messiah and without being the Word of God is Apostasy). To claim that the Holy Spirit united all the pagans for peace without confessing Jesus Christ as the Son of God is blaspheming the Holy Spirit. </span></span></div>
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<b>Endless<i><u> arguing</u></i> about which Jews and Masons who were part of the Apostasy of Rome is only a distraction, on purpose, to keep people involved with Apostate Rome. Rome is Apostate. That is absolutely obvious. Anyone who does not come out of her, is apostate with her and dammed with her. Amen. Amen.</b><br />
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<b>It is clear that with the decoy "Bishop Williamson," the Rosecrucian, to obscure matters, that Fellay in opting for union with Apostate Rome has led the SSPX into complete Apostasy with Apostate Rome.</b><br />
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<tr><td valign="top" width="50%"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #bd1700;"><b><a href="http://www.sspx.org/news/assisi_iii/assisi_iii_1986-2011.htm" style="color: black; text-decoration: none;">Assisi 1986–2011: reform in continuity</a></b></span><br />Cardinal Etchegaray: “<i>Assisi made an extraordinary leap in the dialogue among religions, still in its infancy and unceasingly deepening</i>”... </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">11-5-2011 </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.sspx.org/district_news/renewing_the_assisi_scandal_fr_cacqueray-9-13-2011.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Renewing the Assisi Scandal</a> </b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">What is going to happen this October 27, 2011? A simple friendly encounter among men and women of good will? ...discourse on the divinity of Christ and of His Church? No - the renewal by [Pope] Benedict XVI, of the unprecedented scandal perpetrated by his predecessor, John Paul II [in] 1986</span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">..</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">9-13-2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #bd1700;"><b><a href="http://www.dici.org/en/news/the-assisi-meeting-seen-from-mecca/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">The Assisi meeting, seen from Mecca</a></b></span><br />Why is it impossible to plan an Assisi-style interreligious meeting in Mecca? A short expose that points out the obvious: ecumenism is a one-way street</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">2-9-2011 DICI</span><br />
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<span style="color: #bd1700;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/news/assisi_iii/extract_from_bp_fellays_2002_press_release-assisi_ii.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">An extract from Bishop Fellay’s 2002 Press Release on Assisi II</a></span></b></span><span style="color: #bd1700; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">It has been stated that to avoid any syncretism, those attending will not be praying <i>“together”,</i> but that each religion will pray in separate rooms in the Franciscan convent at Assisi...</span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">2-4-2011</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/news/assisi_iii/is_st_peters_on_the_way_to_assisi.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Is St. Peter's on the way to Assisi?</a></span></b><br />SSPX commentary on the FSSP's strange concepts about Catholic obedience concerning the Assisi ecumenical meeting... </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1-22-2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/news/assisi_iii/we_will_not_pray_together_in_assisi.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">We will not pray together in Assisi</a></span></b><br />A commentary by Fr. Lorans </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1-22-2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/news/assisi_iii/italian_intellectuals_beg_pope_to_flee_spirit_of_assisi.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Italian Catholic Intellectuals Beg Benedict XVI To “Flee the Spirit of Assisi”</a></span></b><br />A group of Italian journalists and academics have publicly asked Pope Benedict XVI to refrain from the Assisi meeting </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1-22-2011</span><br />
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<span style="color: #111111;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: 700;">The basics<br />about ecumenism</span></span></div>
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<tr><td width="100%"><span style="color: #bd1700; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://sspx.org/Catholic_FAQs/catholic_faqs__theological.htm#ecumenism" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">What is Ecumenism?</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="color: #111111;">A Catholic FAQ</span></span></span><span style="color: #bd1700; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-style: italic; font-weight: 700;"><a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xi_enc_19280106_mortalium-animos_en.html" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Mortalium Animos</a></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pope Pius XI's 1928 encyclical against false ecumenism </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">VATICAN</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/miscellaneous/lamentabili_sane.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><i>Lamentabili Sane</i>: St. Pius X's Syllabus of Errors</a></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">10-26-2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/miscellaneous/mirari_vos.htm" style="text-decoration: none;"><i>Mirari Vos</i>: Pope Gregory XVI condemns Liberalism and Religious Indifferentism</a></span></b></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">10-26-2011</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">January 6, 2004<br />On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, Bishop Fellay addressed the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church in a letter about the disastrous effects of ecumenism effected through Vatican II and the<i>Novus Ordo Missae</i>. Included with the letter was the document "From Ecumenism to Silent Apostasy".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">Extracted from a sermon given in Paris on January 9: </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;">"In theory they know, in theory they believe. But in reality, do they believe? Do they really believe that Our Lord is God? Do they really believe that peace among men, among nations, is in His hand? Do they really believe in all the immediate, direct consequences of His divinity?..." </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1-10-2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #bd1700;"><b><a href="http://www.sspx.org/news/assisi_iii/assisi_iii.htm#background_to_assisi_iii" style="text-decoration: none;">Background to Assisi III</a></b></span><br />Includes preliminary Vatican news release and comments from Archbishop Lefebvre on Assisi I in 1986</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #bd1700; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/superior_generals_news/communiques/assisi_II.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">Press Release on Assisi II</a></span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><br />On January 24th, 2002 <i>another</i> inter-religious prayer meeting was convened at Assisi by Pope John Paul II. Bishop Fellay's comments on this tragic event</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.sspx.org/news/assisi_iii/april_2002_ds_ltr.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">April 2002 District Superior's Letter</a></b><br />Assisi II, Syncretism, the new Ten Commandments and the New World Religion </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">4-2002</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><b><a href="http://www.sspx.org/news/assisi_iii/march_2002_ds_ltr.htm" style="text-decoration: none;">March 2002 District Superior's Letter</a></b><br />Assisi II and Secular Humanism</span></td><td valign="top" width="50%"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/archbishop_lefebvre/1986_declaration_against_assisi_archbishop_lefebvre-bishop_de_castro_mayer.htm" style="color: #bd1700; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">1986 Declaration against Assisi I made by Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer</a></span><br />For us, remaining indefectibly attached to the Catholic and Roman Church of all times, we are obliged to take note that this Modernist and liberal religion of modern and conciliar Rome is always distancing itself... </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1/7/2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/archbishop_lefebvre/archbishop_lefebvre_1986_letter_to_8_cardinals.htm" style="color: #bd1700; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">Archbishop Lefebvre's 1986 Letter to 8 cardinals regarding the Assisi Affair</a></span><br />"Eminence, for the honor of the one true God and of our Lord Jesus Christ, make a public protest, come to the help of the still faithful bishops, priests and Catholics..." </span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;">1/7/2011</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/bishop_de_castro_mayer/letter_to_pope_john_paul_ii_lefebvre_de_castro-mayer_1985.htm" style="color: #bd1700; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">A Letter to Pope John Paul II from Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer</a></span><br />The famous 1985 joint-letter that summarized the condition of the Church, how false ecumenism is contrary to her teaching, and thereby causing a crisis</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/archbishop_lefebvre/public_statement_ab_lefebvre_june_1988.htm" style="color: #bd1700; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none;">Archbishop Lefebvre's Statement against False Ecumenism</a></span><br />Originally written in 1983, it was not made public until the 1988 Episcopal Consecrations</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I also noted that the year 2011 will mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the World Day of Prayer for Peace which the Venerable John Paul II called in Assisi, Italy, in 1986. For this reason, in the coming month of October, I will make a pilgrimage to the town of St. Francis, inviting my Christian brethren of different confessions, leaders of the world's religious traditions and, in their hearts, all men and women of good will, to join me on this journey in order to commemorate that important historical gesture of my predecessor, and solemnly to renew the commitment of believers of all religions to live their religious faith as a service to the cause of peace. Those who are journeying towards God cannot fail to transmit peace; those who build peace cannot fail to move towards God. I invite you, even now, to support this initiative with your prayers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">During the closing ceremony for the Week of Christian Unity on January 25, 1986, John Paul II announced "<i>a special prayer meeting for peace in the town of Assisi</i>," "<i>with representatives not only from the various Christian churches and communions but also from the other religions across the world</i>".</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">It is demonic. It is an insult to our Lord Jesus Christ. Who will they pray to? What god will they pray to for peace? What peace can they ask for if they are not praying to the only true God? They will not be praying to our Lord Jesus Christ. The Jews do not want him, the Muslims and Buddhists do not want Him neither. Lots of Protestants do not believe in the divinity of Jesus Christ. What god will they pray to? God was made flesh and came and lived amongst us to save us. We have no right to pray to anyone else. If we put Jesus Christ aside, we are not praying to the true God. It is an indescribably impious act against our Lord Jesus Christ. (<i>Spiritual Conferences</i>, 117B, Jan. 28)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">On August 27, 1986, Archbishop Lefebvre wrote to eight cardinals in view of the Assisi meeting. He asked of them to protest against the actions of John Paul II, in particular "<i>the planned procession of religions in the street of the town of St. Francis</i>":</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">On October 28, 1986 Assisi meeting took place and on December 2, Archbishop Lefebvre and <span style="color: #bd1700;"><a href="http://www.sspx.org/bishop_de_castro_mayer/bishop_antonio_de_castro_mayer.htm" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><u>Bishop de Castro Mayer</u></a></span> publicly protested:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana;">Public sin against the unicity of God, the Word Incarnate, and His Church makes one shudder with horror: John Paul has encouraged false religions to pray to their false gods: it is an unprecedented and immeasurable scandal, ...an inconceivably impious and intolerable humiliation to those who remain Catholic, loyally professing the same Faith for twenty centuries. (<i>Fideliter</i>, #55; declaration signed in Buenos Aires)<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blog-this.do?zx=835ag6kl3l7m" name="bp_fellay_video"></a></span></span></div>
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<b>You must be Baptized to receive the Eucharist</b><br />
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">CHAPTER XXVIII.</span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">1 And *in the end of the sabbath, when it began to dawn towards the first day of the week,</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">18 And Jesus coming, spoke to them, saying: All power is given to me in heaven and in earth. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">19 *Going, therefore, teach ye all nations: baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit; </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">20 Teaching them to observe all things <a href="http://thecatholiccreed.blogspot.com/">whatsoever I have commanded you</a>: and behold I am with you all days, even to the consummation of the world.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>"Consummation of the world," - the end of this age of grace and the beginning of the eternal ages with Christ reigning visibly. This is the end of the eschaton and the beginning of the eternal recreated heavens and the earth and will begin when Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ returns from heaven in the same flesh He rose with and ascended into the third heaven with, seated at the right hand of the Father. His return will be with all of His elect angels. He will raise and judge all men in the flesh and then recreate the heavens and the earth, which in that state will last that way for eternity. There will NOT be any sin in the new heavens and earth, so prepare now by confessing the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit and be baptized as commanded above and shown how to baptize below and live Holy and Godly lives in sincerity and humility and meekness waiting for the Lord when He returns so that we are not like the five foolish virgins but are like the five wise virgins.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Chapter 7. Concerning Baptism. </b></span><br />
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The Didache dates from 49 A.D. from the first and only Church Council in which the whole Church was represented, that is the Council of Jerusalem held by the Apostles themselves (see Acts 15 and 21:25). It was given at that Council to the Church by the Apostles. It was held as Scripture by the Church until and including the 4th century A.D. From then until the present a number of churchmen have done what they could to ignore it or sideline it, but there has always been those of the body of Christ, His Church, who have maintained the Didache and its teaching. Witness in the Church Fathers includes St. Irenaeus, who without any reservation, teaches that it is the inspired order of rule in the Church by the Apostles themselves. Witness has continued until and including in the present in various churches to it as the inspired scripture that, in fact, it is. It always must be included with the rest of the New Testament.</div>
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1:1 There are two ways, one of life and one of death, and there is a great difference between the two ways.<br />
1:2 The way of life is this.<br />
1:3 First of all, thou shalt love the God that made thee;<br />
1:4 secondly, thy neighbour as thyself.<br />
1:5 And all things whatsoever thou wouldest not have befall thyself neither do thou unto another.<br />
1:6 Now of these words the doctrine is this.<br />
1:7 Bless them that curse you, and pray for your enemies and fast for them that persecute you;<br />
1:8 for what thank is it, if ye love them that love you? Do not even the Gentiles the same? But do ye love them that hate you, and ye shall not have an enemy.<br />
1:9 Abstain thou from fleshly and bodily lusts.<br />
1:10 If any man give thee a blow on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also, and thou shalt be perfect;<br />
1:11 if a man impress thee to go with him, one mile, go with him twain;<br />
1:12 if a man take away thy cloak, give him thy coat also;<br />
1:13 if a man take away from thee that which is thine own, ask it not back, for neither art thou able.<br />
1:14 To every man that asketh of thee give, and ask not back;<br />
1:15 for the Father desireth that gifts be given to all from His own bounties.<br />
1:16 Blessed is he that giveth according to the commandment;<br />
1:17 for he is guiltless.<br />
1:18 Woe to him that receiveth;<br />
1:19 for, if a man receiveth having need, he is guiltless;<br />
1:20 but he that hath no need shall give satisfaction why and wherefore he received;<br />
1:21 and being put in confinement he shall be examined concerning the deeds that he hath done, and he shall not come out thence until he hath given back the last farthing.<br />
1:22 Yea, as touching this also it is said;<br />
1:23 Let thine alms sweat into thine hands, until thou shalt have learnt to whom to give.</div>
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2:1 And this is the second commandment of the teaching.<br />
2:2 Thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not corrupt boys, thou shalt not commit fornication, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not deal in magic, thou shalt do no sorcery, thou shalt not murder a child by abortion nor kill them when born, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's goods, thou shalt not perjure thyself, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not speak evil, thou shalt not cherish a grudge, thou shalt not be double-minded nor double-tongued;<br />
2:3 for the double tongue is a snare of death.<br />
2:4 Thy word shall not be false or empty, but fulfilled by action.<br />
2:5 Thou shalt not be avaricious nor a plunderer nor a hypocrite nor ill-tempered nor proud.<br />
2:6 Thou shalt not entertain an evil design against thy neighbour.<br />
2:7 Thou shalt not hate any man, but some thou shalt reprove, and for others thou shalt pray, and others thou shalt love more than thy life.</div>
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3:1 My child, flee from every evil and everything that resembleth it.<br />
3:2 Be not angry, for anger leadeth to murder, nor jealous nor contentious nor wrathful;<br />
3:3 for of all these things murders are engendered.<br />
3:4 My child, be not lustful, for lust leadeth to fornication, neither foul-speaking neither with uplifted eyes;<br />
3:5 for of all these things adulteries are engendered.<br />
3:6 My child, be no dealer in omens, since it leads to idolatry, nor an enchanter nor an astrologer nor a magician, neither be willing to look at them;<br />
3:7 for from all these things idolatry is engendered.<br />
3:8 My child, be not a liar, since lying leads to theft, neither avaricious neither vainglorious;<br />
3:9 for from all these things thefts are engendered.<br />
3:10 My child, be not a murmurer, since it leadeth to blasphemy, neither self-willed neither a thinker of evil thoughts;<br />
3:11 for from all these things blasphemies are engendered.<br />
3:12 But be meek, since the meek shall inherit the earth.<br />
3:13 Be long-suffering and pitiful and guileless and quiet and kindly and always fearing the words which thou hast heard.<br />
3:14 Thou shalt not exalt thyself, neither shalt thou admit boldness into thy soul.<br />
3:15 Thy soul shall not cleave together with the lofty, but with the righteous and humble shalt thou walk.<br />
3:16 The accidents that befal thee thou shalt receive as good, knowing that nothing is done without God.</div>
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4:1 My child, thou shalt remember him that speaketh unto thee the word of God night and day, and shalt honour him as the Lord;<br />
4:2 for whencesoever the Lordship speaketh, there is the Lord.<br />
4:3 Moreover thou shalt seek out day by day the persons of the saints, that thou mayest find rest in their words.<br />
4:4 Thou shalt not make a schism, but thou shalt pacify them that contend;<br />
4:5 thou shalt judge righteously, thou shalt not make a difference in a person to reprove him for transgressions.<br />
4:6 Thou shalt not doubt whether a thing shall be or not be.<br />
4:7 Be not thou found holding out thy hands to receive, but drawing them in as to giving.<br />
4:8 If thou hast ought passing through thy hands, thou shalt give a ransom for thy sins.<br />
4:9 Thou shalt not hesitate to give, neither shalt thou murmur when giving;<br />
4:10 for thou shalt know who is the good paymaster of thy reward.<br />
4:11 Thou shalt not turn away from him that is in want, but shalt make thy brother partaker in all things, and shalt not say that anything is thine own.<br />
4:12 For if ye are fellow-partakers in that which is imperishable, how much rather in the things which are perishable? Thou shalt not withhold thy hand from thy son or from thy daughter, but from their youth thou shalt teach them the fear of God.<br />
4:13 Thou shalt not command thy bondservant or thine handmaid in thy bitterness, who trust in the same God as thyself, lest haply they should cease to fear the God who is over both of you;<br />
4:14 for He cometh, not to call men with respect of persons, but He cometh to those whom the Spirit hath prepared.<br />
4:15 But ye, servants, shall be subject unto your masters, as to a type of God, in shame and fear.<br />
4:16 Thou shalt hate all hypocrisy, and everything that is not pleasing to the Lord.<br />
4:17 Thou shalt never forsake the commandments of the Lord;<br />
4:18 but shalt keep those things which thou hast received, neither adding to them nor taking away from them.<br />
4:19 In church thou shalt confess thy transgressions, and shalt not betake thyself to prayer with an evil conscience. [See 14:1-3 - any transgression between immediate Church members was to be reconciled first between them directly, just as Jesus taught in the Lord's prayer, see 8:8 <i>and forgive us our debt, as we also forgive our debtors; </i><br />
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<i>For if you will forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father will forgive you also your offences.</i></div>
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<i>But if you will not forgive men, neither will your Father forgive you your offences.</i><br />
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4:20 This is the way of life.</div>
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5:1 But the way of death is this.<br />
5:2 First of all, it is evil and full of a curse, murders, adulteries, lusts, fornications, thefts, idolatries, magical arts, witchcrafts, plunderings, false witnessings, hypocrisies, doubleness of heart, treachery, pride, malice, stubbornness, covetousness, foul-speaking, jealousy, boldness, exaltation, boastfulness;<br />
5:3 persecutors of good men, hating truth, loving a lie, not perceiving the reward of righteousness, not cleaving to the good nor to righteous judgment, wakeful not for that which is good but for that which is evil;<br />
5:4 from whom gentleness and forbearance stand aloof;<br />
5:5 loving vain things, pursuing a recompense, not pitying the poor man, not toiling for him that is oppressed with toil, not recognizing Him that made them, murderers of children, corrupters of the creatures of God, turning away from him that is in want, oppressing him that is afflicted, advocates of the wealthy, unjust judges of the poor, altogether sinful.<br />
5:6 May ye be delivered, my children, from all these things.</div>
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6:1 See lest any man lead you astray from this way of righteousness, for he teacheth thee apart from God.<br />
6:2 For if thou art able to bear the whole yoke of the Lord, thou shalt be perfect;<br />
6:3 but if thou art not able, do that which thou art able.<br />
6:4 But concerning eating, bear that which thou art able;<br />
6:5 yet abstain by all means from meat sacrificed to idols;<br />
6:6 for it is the worship of dead gods.</div>
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7:1 But concerning baptism, thus shall ye baptize.<br />
7:2 Having first recited all these things, baptize in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit in living (running) water.<br />
7:3 But if thou hast not living water, then baptize in other water;<br />
7:4 and if thou art not able in cold, then in warm.<br />
7:5 But if thou hast neither, then pour water on the head thrice in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.<br />
7:6 But before the baptism let him that baptizeth and him that is baptized fast, and any others also who are able;<br />
7:7 and thou shalt order him that is baptized to fast a day or two before.</div>
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8:1 And let not your fastings be with the hypocrites, for they fast on the second and the fifth day of the week;<br />
8:2 but do ye keep your fast on the fourth and on the preparation (the sixth) day.<br />
8:3 Neither pray ye as the hypocrites, but as the Lord commanded in His Gospel, thus pray ye.<br />
8:4 Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name;<br />
8:5 Thy kingdom come;<br />
8:6 Thy will be done, as in heaven, so also on earth;<br />
8:7 give us this day our daily bread;<br />
8:8 and forgive us our debt, as we also forgive our debtors;<br />
8:9 and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one;<br />
8:10 for Thine is the power and the glory for ever and ever.<br />
8:11 Three times in the day pray ye so.</div>
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9:1 But as touching the eucharistic thanksgiving give ye thanks thus.<br />
9:2 First, as regards the cup:<br />
9:3 We give Thee thanks, O our Father, for the holy vine of Thy son David, which Thou madest known unto us through Thy Son Jesus;<br />
9:4 Thine is the glory for ever and ever.<br />
9:5 Then as regards the broken bread:<br />
9:6 We give Thee thanks, O our Father, for the life and knowledge which Thou didst make known unto us through Thy Son Jesus;<br />
9:7 Thine is the glory for ever and ever.<br />
9:8 As this broken bread was scattered upon the mountains and being gathered together became one, so may Thy Church be gathered together from the ends of the earth into Thy kingdom;<br />
9:9 for Thine is the glory and the power through Jesus Christ for ever and ever.<br />
9:10 But let no one eat or drink of this eucharistic thanksgiving, but they that have been baptized into the name of the Lord;<br />
9:11 for concerning this also the Lord hath said:<br />
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10:1 And after ye are satisfied thus give ye thanks:<br />
10:2 We give Thee thanks, Holy Father, for Thy holy name, which Thou hast made to tabernacle in our hearts, and for the knowledge and faith and immortality, which Thou hast made known unto us through Thy Son Jesus;<br />
10:3 Thine is the glory for ever and ever.<br />
10:4 Thou, Almighty Master, didst create all things for Thy name's sake, and didst give food and drink unto men for enjoyment, that they might render thanks to Thee;<br />
10:5 but didst bestow upon us spiritual food and drink and eternal life through Thy Son.<br />
10:6 Before all things we give Thee thanks that Thou art powerful;<br />
10:7 Thine is the glory for ever and ever.<br />
10:8 Remember, Lord, Thy Church to deliver it from all evil and to perfect it in Thy love;<br />
10:9 and gather it together from the four winds--even the Church which has been sanctified--into Thy kingdom which Thou hast prepared for it;<br />
10:10 for Thine is the power and the glory for ever and ever.<br />
10:11 May grace come and may this world pass away.<br />
10:12 Hosanna to the God of David.<br />
10:13 If any man is holy, let him come;<br />
10:14 if any man is not, let him repent. Maran Atha. Amen.<br />
10:15 But permit the prophets to offer thanksgiving as much as they desire.</div>
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11:1 Whosoever therefore shall come and teach you all these things that have been said before, receive him;<br />
11:2 but if the teacher himself be perverted and teach a different doctrine to the destruction thereof, hear him not;<br />
11:3 but if to the increase of righteousness and the knowledge of the Lord, receive him as the Lord.<br />
11:4 But concerning the apostles and prophets, so do ye according to the ordinance of the Gospel.<br />
11:5 Let every apostle, when he cometh to you, be received as the Lord;<br />
11:6 but he shall not abide more than a single day, or if there be need, a 11:7 but if he abide three days, he is a false prophet.<br />
11:8 And when he departeth let the apostle receive nothing save bread, until he findeth shelter;<br />
11:9 but if he ask money, he is a false prophet.<br />
11:10 And any prophet speaking in the Spirit ye shall not try neither discern;<br />
11:11 for every sin shall be forgiven, but this sin shall not be forgiven.<br />
11:12 Yet not every one that speaketh in the Spirit is a prophet, but only if he have the ways of the Lord.<br />
11:13 From his ways therefore the false prophet and the prophet shall be recognized.<br />
11:14 And no prophet when he ordereth a table in the Spirit shall eat of it;<br />
11:15 otherwise he is a false prophet.<br />
11:16 And every prophet teaching the truth, if he doeth not what he teacheth, is a false prophet.<br />
11:17 And every prophet approved and found true, if he doeth ought as an outward mystery typical of the Church, and yet teacheth you not to do all that he himself doeth, shall not be judged before you;<br />
11:18 he hath his judgment in the presence of God;<br />
11:19 for in like manner also did the prophets of old time.<br />
11:20 And whosoever shall say in the Spirit, Give me silver or anything else, ye shall not listen to him;<br />
11:21 but if he tell you to give on behalf of others that are in want, let no man judge him.</div>
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12:1 But let every one that cometh in the name of the Lord be received;<br />
12:2 and then when ye have tested him ye shall know him, for ye shall have understanding on the right hand and on the left.<br />
12:3 If the comer is a traveller, assist him, so far as ye are able;<br />
12:4 but he shall not stay with you more than two or three days, if it be necessary.<br />
12:5 But if he wishes to settle with you, being a craftsman, let him work for and eat his bread.<br />
12:6 But if he has no craft, according to your wisdom provide how he shall live as a Christian among you, but not in idleness.<br />
12:7 If he will not do this, he is trafficking upon Christ.<br />
12:8 Beware of such men.</div>
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13:1 But every true prophet desiring to settle among you is worthy of his food.<br />
13:2 In like manner a true teacher is also worthy, like the workman, of his food.<br />
13:3 Every firstfruit then of the produce of the wine-vat and of the threshing-floor, of thy oxen and of thy sheep, thou shalt take and give as the firstfruit to the prophets;<br />
13:4 for they are your chief-priests.<br />
13:5 But if ye have not a prophet, give them to the poor.<br />
13:6 If thou makest bread, take the firstfruit and give according to the commandment.<br />
13:7 In like manner, when thou openest a jar of wine or of oil, take the firstfruit and give to the prophets;<br />
13:8 yea and of money and raiment and every possession take the firstfruit, as shall seem good to thee, and give according to the commandment.</div>
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14:1 And on the Lord's own day gather yourselves together and break bread and give thanks, first confessing your transgressions, that your sacrifice may be pure. [14:1-3 - see 4:19 note]<br />
14:2 And let no man, having his dispute with his fellow, join your assembly until they have been reconciled, that your sacrifice may not be defiled;<br />
14:3 for this sacrifice it is that was spoken of by the Lord;<br />
14:4 In every place and at every time offer Me a pure sacrifice;<br />
14:5 for I am a great king, saith the Lord and My name is wonderful among the nations.</div>
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15:1 Appoint for yourselves therefore bishops and deacons worthy of the Lord, men who are meek and not lovers of money, and true and approved;<br />
15:2 for unto you they also perform the service of the prophets and teachers.<br />
15:3 Therefore despise them not;<br />
15:4 for they are your honourable men along with the prophets and teachers.<br />
15:5 And reprove one another, not in anger but in peace, as ye find in the Gospel;<br />
15:6 and let no one speak to any that has gone wrong towards his neighbour, neither let him hear a word from you, until he repent.<br />
15:7 But your prayers and your almsgivings and all your deeds so do ye as ye find it in the Gospel of our Lord.</div>
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16:1 Be watchful for your life;<br />
16:2 let your lamps not be quenched and your loins not ungirded, but be ye ready;<br />
16:3 for ye know not the hour in which our Lord cometh.<br />
16:4 And ye shall gather yourselves together frequently, seeking what is fitting for your souls;<br />
16:5 for the whole time of your faith shall not profit you, if ye be not perfected at the last season.<br />
16:6 For in the last days the false prophets and corrupters shall be multiplied, and the sheep shall be turned into wolves, and love shall be turned into hate.<br />
16:7 For as lawlessness increaseth, they shall hate one another and shall persecute and betray.<br />
16:8 And then the world-deceiver shall appear as a son of God;<br />
16:9 and shall work signs and wonders, and the earth shall be delivered into his hands;<br />
16:10 and he shall do unholy things, which have never been since the world began.<br />
16:11 Then all created mankind shall come to the fire of testing, and many shall be offended and perish;<br />
16:12 but they that endure in their faith shall be saved from the accursed one himself.<br />
16:13 And then shall the signs of the truth appear;<br />
16:14 first a sign of an opening in heaven, then a sign of a voice of a trumpet, and thirdly a resurrection of the dead;<br />
16:15 yet not of all, but as it was said:<br />
16:16 The Lord shall come and all His saints with Him.<br />
16:17 Then shall the world see the Lord coming upon the clouds of heaven.</div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Against you, you
alone, Jesus Christ our Only Lord and Saviour, have we sinned and done what is
evil in your sight, forgive us our sins, purge us with hyssop and we shall be
cleansed, wash us and we shall be made whiter than snow, make the bones you
have numbered to rejoice. Come Holy Spirit cleanse us from all stain of spirit,
soul, flesh, make us only one in You, as you are one in God Our Father, in You,
You in us, Most Holy Lord God Pantocrator, Christ Jesus our Only Lord and
Saviour, Who alone bought us in the flesh by Your most Holy Cross, Holy Blood,
Holy Spirit, of You the Immortal Son of the Father, Christ Jesus Our only Lord
and Saviour, infinitely pure and undefiled covering the whole world and
cleansing the whole universe, Jesus Christ our Only Lord and Saviour the only
first born from the dead in the flesh the only one Resurrected Ascended Assumed
Bodily in the flesh and sitteth on the right hand of God Our Father in the
third heaven in the unity and power and bond of love of the Holy Spirit our
Paraclete Holy Holy Holy Lord God Pantocrator, with and by the prayer and
company of the same all Your elect angels and saints for and with us
unceasingly:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">O Lord Jesus Christ our only Lord and
Saviour, living and reigning and ruling with God Our Father in the unity and
power and bond of love of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">with and by the prayer and company and
presence of the same all your elect angels and saints for and with us
unceasingly, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">especially Saint Michael and Saint
Gabriel truly present with us, Saint Enoch in the flesh and Saint Elijah in the
flesh your holy prophets yet to return their holy angels truly present with us,
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">the Holy Family especially blessed St.
Joseph and the most Blessed Virgin Mary your mother Christ Jesus our only Lord and
Saviour your half brothers and sisters in the flesh Christ Jesus our only Lord
and Saviour the only mediator between God and man in the flesh most holy angel
of almighty counsel, captain of the hosts of the Lord, going before us with all
of your elect doxas, especially St. Michael and St. Gabriel truly present with us, unto all salvation and victory totally protecting and delivering us in
all things at all times immediately unceasingly and now and always and unto the
endless ages of ages to come; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">with all thanksgiving, we love you for
you first loved us, with all thanksgiving, thank you for You, for all your
gifts and mercies to us, unceasingly: especially your all holy, almighty, gifts
of our creation, your redemption of us, your gifts of your creation to us,
Christ Jesus our only Lord and Saviour, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">your life and teaching, your Incarnation,
Conception, Birth in the flesh, your Epiphany, your Transfiguration, your most
Holy Cross, Holy Blood, Holy Spirit, of you the Immortal son of the Father,
Christ Jesus our only Lord and Saviour, your Resurrection, the only first born
from the dead in the flesh, your Ascension, Assumption, in the same flesh, back
to the Father’s bosom in the third heaven at his right hand in the unity and
power and bond of love of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete, the gift of your Holy
Spirit our Paraclete at Pentecost, and throughout all time and creation,
indwelling us, bringing with him, you God Our Father and the Son Jesus Christ
our only Lord and Saviour, unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless
ages of ages to come, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">your most holy Eucharist, which you alone
God Our Father and the Son Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour and the Holy
Spirit our Paraclete give to us, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour,
infinitely pure and undefiled, truly made manifest again in the bread the wine
and the water whom we receive in faith with all thanksgiving, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">your Parousia, in the same flesh in which
you came in your Incarnation and suffered for us and rose again in, in the
future, at the end of this age, at the time known to you alone O Holy, Holy,
Holy Lord God almighty, Blessed Trinity, Holy Unity, with all your elect
angels, our resurrection in the flesh at the first resurrection of the just,
our same spirits, souls and bodies reunited, we with all your elect angels and
saints worshipping you, Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour, in the glory of
God Our Father, in the unity and power and bond of love of the Holy Spirit our
Paraclete, face to face unceasingly unto the endless ages of ages to come, for
your spiritual gifts of food and drink, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">for your simple gifts of food and drink,
for all your gifts and mercies and this new day with all thanksgiving, we love
you for you first loved us with all thanksgiving, blessed are You in all Your
elect angels and saints, unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless
ages of ages to come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Bind and cast from us forevermore all
spirits visible and invisible of: the dragon - the devil - the serpent of old,
the son of perdition, the false prophet, calling your creation evil, claiming
men are created evil, evolution, theurgy, claiming to have control over you,
Babylon, the great apostasy, the unholy Roman apostasy, the
Protestant/Evangelical apostasy, all conniving thieving apostasy, all apostasy,
the Jews apostasy, the antichrist, all those who claim your commandments are of
no regard all of our enemies destroyed in sheer terror dead and bound and gone
from us cast into the lake of fire in utter destruction and deliver us from all
spirits visible and invisible thereof<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Prevented preventing unceasingly and now
and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">+<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: red; font-family: Georgia;">Damned be
the devil and Deus est daemon inversus and all its minions and any and all
claiming that the devil and any and all of its minions: fallen spirits and men,
have any authority from God in anything at any time in any way and any and all
god/gods/goddesses that are and are claimed to command or approve any such
thing ever unceasingly and forevermore from before all time and creation at the
beginning of all time and creation past present future and always and now
unceasingly and unceasingly unto the endless ages of ages to come. Amen. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Holy Blood Holy Spirit Holy wrath of
the Lamb Christ Jesus utterly shielding deliver us make the evil recoil upon
our enemies dying make them die, all of their plans, every spirit visible and
invisible thereof, destroyed bound and gone from us cast into the lake fire
forevermore. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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In the below “Dam (Blood) Kadosh (Holy) bet Yeshua ha Maschiach
(Jesus Christ) kanawn anawim (have mercy on Your faithful [those who turn to
God by the shed Blood of Christ on <st1:place w:st="on">Calvary</st1:place>])”
is asking for God's forgiveness by the shed Holy Blood of Christ – which is the
only forgiveness there is from God for sin.</div>
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<span style="color: red;">Shalom Aleichem beth (bayt) Baruch
Adonai Yahweh Eloheiunu Yahweh echad </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">דרך</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="AR-SA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>(<span style="color: red;">dérekh</span> – through) <span style="background: white; color: red; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">ben Yahweh Abba bar Elohim Abba<i> </i></span><span style="background: white; color: red;">Adonai </span><span style="color: red;">Yeshua
ha Maschiach </span><span dir="RTL" lang="AR-SA">בְּתוֹךְ</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span lang="AR-SA"><span dir="LTR"></span> </span>(<span style="color: red;">b'tókh</span>
- inside, within) <span style="color: red;">Ruach Elohim Yahweh Adonai <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Adonai Yahweh Abba El Olam Olam kanawn
anawim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Adonai Yeshua ha Maschiach kanawn
anawim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Adonai Ruach Elohim Yahweh kanawn
anawim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Adonai Yahweh Eloheiunu Yahweh echad
kanawn anawim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Adonai Yahweh Elohim Kadosh kanawn
anawim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Adonai Yeshua ha Maschiach kanawn
anawim<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">'Agious 'Agious 'Agious Kurios 'O
Theos 'O Pantocrator Elieson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Kyrie Elieson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Christie Elieson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">'Agious 'Agious 'Agious Kurios 'O
Theos 'O Pantocrator, Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala, Elieson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Baruch Adonai Yahweh Eloheuinu Yahweh echad Elohiko Hashamaim<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Most blessed Lord Yahweh God-plural personhood Yahweh
composite-Unity God higher than the highest heaven<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Shamaim Hashamaim Eloueth Ahiyah asher Ahiyah<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">higher than the highest heaven God I am (Yah) that I am (Yah)
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">El Olam Yahweh El Elyown Yahweh Elohim eth Yaoth Elohim
Qadosh<br />
</span></i><span style="background: white; color: black;">God eternal Yahweh Most
High Yahweh God you Yah who drives the evil powers to flight Holy God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Eloah<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>El Shaddai<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">God of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>God Almighty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Moshawah<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Our Saviour<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Adonai Eloah Melek Eloah miqqadash<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Lord God King God our Sanctifier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">El Israel Anawim<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">God of Israel Your faithful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">El Elohim Yahweh El Olam eth Abba Our Father of Lights Holy
with<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">God of Gods (most high) Yahweh God eternal you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Whom there is no variation or shadow of turning<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">ben Yahweh bar Elohim<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Son of Yahweh Son of God<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Yahweh Shamah Emmanuel Yeshua ha Maschiach Jesus Christ Our
only Lord<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Yahweh Christ perfect servant of hearing God God with us
Jesus the Messiah<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">and Saviour<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Ruach Yahweh Chokmah Abiyr Gebuwrah Neshamah Yahweh<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Spirit of Yahweh Wisdom Might Power Spirit-Breath of Yahweh<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Holy Spirit Life Quickening Breath of Life Energy our<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Paraclete<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Ruach Elohim Olam Yahweh Borea Emeth Huy Eloah Chay Melek
Olam Eloah<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">Spirit of God eternal Yahweh Creator True Living God and King
Immortal God of Hosts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Sabaoth Holy Trinity Adorable Unity<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Eloah Anawim with and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">God of the faithful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">by the prayer and company of all Your<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Elect Doxas and Anawim for and with us unceasingly kanawn
Anawim<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black;">have mercy on Your faithful<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Baruch Adonai Yahweh Eloheuinu Yahweh echad Elohiko Hashamaim
Shamaim Hashamaim Eloueth Ahiyah asher Ahiyah<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">El Olam Yahweh El Elyown Yahweh Elohim eth
Yaoth Elohim Qadosh <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Eloah <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region> El Shaddai<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Moshawah<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Adonai Eloah Melek Eloah miqqadash<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">El Israel Anawim <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">El Elohim Yahweh El Olam eth
Abba Our Father of Lights Holy with<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Whom there is no variation
or shadow of turning<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ben Yahweh bar Elohim<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Yahweh Shamah Emmanuel
Yeshua ha Maschiach Jesus Christ Our only Lord and Saviour<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ruach Yahweh Chokmah Abiyr
Gebuwrah Neshamah Yahweh<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Holy Spirit Life Quickening
Breath of Life Energy our<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Paraclete<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Ruach Elohim Olam Yahweh
Borea Emeth Huy Eloah Chay Melek Olam Eloah Sabaoth Holy Trinity Adorable Unity<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Eloah Anawim with and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">by the prayer and company of all Your<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Elect Doxas and Anawim for and with us unceasingly kanawn Anawim<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Our Only<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">KANNAW<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only<br />
Holy Lord God Who Created and Redeemed us<br />
</span><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">TSIDKENOU<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only Righteousness<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">YIREH<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">NISSI<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only Sacrifice<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">MELCHISEDECH<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only Priest King<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">MELEK<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only Sovereign King of kings and Lord of lords<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">SHALOM<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only Peace from above<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">KOHANE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only High Priest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ROHI<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only Good Shepherd and Overseer of our souls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">ROPHE<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only Healer and Miracle Worker<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">MIQQADOSH<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Our Only Sanctifier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD PANTOCRATOR<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Who is and was and is to come<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">Unceasingly <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">to Whom be all the <o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">LOVE <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">ADORATION <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">AUTHORITY <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">GLORY <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">HONOR <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">OBEDIENCE <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">THANKSGIVING <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">POWER <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">DIVINITY <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">RICHES <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">WISDOM <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">STRENGTH <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">BLESSING <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">DOMINION <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">SALVATION <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">PRAISE <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">WORSHIP <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">SERVICE <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">DEEDS <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">INNOCENCE <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">FAITH <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">PREACHINGS <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">PROPHECIES <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">PRAYERS <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">THANKSGIVING <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">WE LOVE YOU FOR YOU FIRST LOVED US <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">WITH ALL THANKSGIVING<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">With and by the prayer and company of all
Your elect angels and saints, for and with us unceasingly, <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">especially Your holy<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">SERAFIM <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">CHERUBIM <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">KURIOTETES <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">ARCHES<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">especially<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">St. Michael <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">St. Gabriel holy Archangelos <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">EXOUSIAS <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">DUNAMEIS <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;">ANGELOS<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">Grant us Your gifts and mercies,
especially Your Holy<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">CHOKMAH WISDOM FIRE OF LOVE OF WISDOM YOURSELF HOLY LIFE <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">BIYNAH UNDERSTANDING WISDOM OF SUPERNATURAL KNOWLEDGE PROPHECY AND
MIRACLES<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">ETSAH COUNSEL MIGHT OF SANCTIFYING LOVE IN FAITH <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">DAATH KNOWLEDGE TO KNOW ONLY THE GOOD DISCERNMENT OF SPIRITS
AUTHORITY AND STRENGTH REPELLING ALL EVIL SPIRITS INVISIBLE AND VISIBLE FROM US
UNCEASINGLY<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">YIRAH GODLINESS ENERGY OF MIRACLES IN THE UNITY OF GOD TONGUES AND
TRANSLATION<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.0pt;">AHABAH AGAPE <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">PHILADELPHIA</st1:city></st1:place>
LOVE SPIRIT OF THE GOSPEL THE LOVE OF GOD JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND
SAVIOUR<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Holy Blood Holy Spirit Holy wrath of
the Lamb Christ Jesus utterly shielding deliver us make the evil recoil upon
our enemies dying make them die, all of their plans, every spirit visible and
invisible thereof, destroyed bound and gone from us cast into the lake fire
forevermore. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Holy Blood and Holy Spirit and
Holy Shield of Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour invincible and
inpenetrable, shielding, delivering, us unceasingly and now and always and unto
the endless ages of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">By Your most Holy Blood and Holy
Spirit and this Your Most Holy Shield of You Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and
Saviour invincible and inpenetrable, only-begotten Son of the Immortal Father,
in the Holy Spirit the Unity and Power and Bond of Love of the Father and the
Son Jesus Christ, our only Lord and Saviour, covering, shielding, delivering,
cleanse, shield, heal, guide, guard, keep, deliver and bless our households in
the faith, all faithful house churches, all the faithful departed of our
households, blessed in Your bosom unceasingly with all Your faithful departed
especially all of our kinsmen after the flesh, especially Parents, our
households blessed here on earth in long life and good health, healed
completely in spirit soul body, to live long, totally protected and delivered
in all things at all times and all of us, totally cleansed, sanctified,
strengthened, purified, vindicated in spirit soul body, our households totally
delivered in all things at all times, Holy Blood of Christ Jesus – Jesus Christ
– St. Michael – St. Gabriel – with all your elect angels going forth before us,
no one interfering with us in anyway nor see observe say communicate anything
about us nor even remember ever absolutely nothing at all times past present
future, our households protected in everything absolutely immediately,
especially by Your Most Holy Eucharist, infinitely pure and undefiled, whom You
alone Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour give to us, Whom we alone receive
in faith with all thanksgiving, indwelling us, Your presence God Our Father and
Son Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour and the Holy Spirit our Paraclete,
truly present with us and for us everywhere with and by the prayer and company
and presence, especially St. Michael and St. Gabriel and St. Enoch and St.
Elijah in the flesh – their holy angels, truly present with us, of the same all
your elect angels and saints for and with us in all places, utterly perfectly
forevermore in everything, everywhere in every detail perfectly destroying
Satan, all of our enemies all of their deceits and plots: their every murder
lie attack assault all of Satan’s minions all of our enemies: the violent and
deceivers especially the false brethren and all vile evil depraved enemies of
the Gospel, especially</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;">, </span><span style="color: red;">all the sons and daughters of belial in sheer crushing Holy
wrath, make the evil recoil upon their plans destroying all of their plans and
deceits, deliver us from every spirit visible and invisible thereof and all of
their plans, deliver us from the evil one, Prevented preventing from before all
time and creation – Creator and Ruler over all – at the beginning of all time
and creation – past, present, future – unceasingly and now and always and unto
the endless ages of ages to come, save us.</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Thy good Spirit shall lead me in
the land of uprightness; for Thy Name's sake, O Lord, shall Thou quicken me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Leading us forth O Lord, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Drive far away our preternatural
foe, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">And thine abiding peace bestow; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">If thou be our preventing Guide, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">No evil can our steps betide.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so
thou shalt be magnified among them in our presence, make them fall back as
those did before You by Your presence unceasingly and never come near us
everything and everybody in every way and now and always and unto the endless
ages of ages to come forevermore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Prevented utterly invisible + Prevented passing through the midst thereof
unharmed and untouched all of it bound and gone from us unceasingly for you
LORD are not in any of that, neither are we, forevermore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia;">Bless our meetings, O Lord.<span style="background: white;"><br />
</span>Utterly uproot all idolatry from the world.<span style="background: white;"><br />
</span>Crush under our feet Satan.<span style="background: white;"><br />
</span>Humble now, as at all times, the enemies of Thy Church.</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia;">Lay bare their pride.<span style="background: white;"><br />
</span>Speedily show them their weakness.<span style="background: white;"><br />
</span>Bring to naught the wicked plots they contrive against us.<span style="background: white;"><br />
</span>Arise, O Lord, and let Thine enemies be scattered, and let all who hate
Thy holy name be put to flight.</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">In Thy righteousness shalt thou
bring my soul out of affliction, and in thy mercy shalt Thou utterly destroy mine
enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">And thou shalt cut off all them
that afflict my soul, for I am thy servant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">By Your most Holy Blood and Holy
Spirit and this Your Most Holy Shield of You Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and
Saviour invincible and inpenetrable, save us. Prevented and Preventing
Unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Holy Blood and Holy Spirit and
Your Most Holy Shield, shielding delivering us Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and
Saviour, only-begotten Son of the Eternal Father, covering the whole world
cleansing the whole universe,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia;"> </span><span style="color: red;">with and by the prayer and company and presence of the same
all your elect angels and saints for and with us unceasingly and now and always
and unto the endless ages of ages to come cover, cleanse, shield, heal, guide,
guard, keep, deliver and bless Thine sheep, faithful and in salvific confession
of You Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour, Your lost sheep, unto all
salvation eternal and temporal, especially by and draw them to come to and use,
and who come to my web sites and use them, absolutely immediately utterly
forevermore unceasingly and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to
come, save us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Thy good Spirit shall lead me in
the land of uprightness; for Thy Name's sake, O Lord, shall Thou quicken me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">In Thy righteousness shalt thou
bring my soul out of affliction, and in thy mercy shalt Thou utterly destroy
mine enemies.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">And thou shalt cut off all them
that afflict my soul, for I am thy servant. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">By Your most Holy Blood and Holy
Spirit and this Your Most Holy Shield of You Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and
Saviour invincible and inpenetrable, save us. Unceasingly and now and always
and unto the endless ages of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Holy Blood and Holy Spirit and
Holy Shield of Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour invincible and
inpenetrable, shielding, delivering, us unceasingly and now and always and unto
the endless ages of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">O God, who madest
the children of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Israel</st1:country-region></st1:place>
to walk with dry feet through </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">the midst of the
sea, and who didst open unto the three wise men, by the guiding of a Star, the
way that lead unto Thee, grant to us good speed, and quietness: may thy All
holy Angel of Almighty Counsel Captain of the hosts of the Lord, Jesus Christ
thou Most Holy Lord God Pantocrator in the flesh, with St. Michael and St.
Gabriel and all your elect angels accompany us during our pilgrimage going
forth before us and delivering us in everything everywhere in every detail
prevented and preventing and in the end, may we attain the haven of eternal
salvation. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">O God, who didst
call thy servant Abraham, out of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Ur</st1:city></st1:place>
of the Chaldees, and didst keep him from evil through all the ways of his
pilgrimage, we beseech Thee, that it please Thee to keep us Thy servants. Be
Thou unto us, O Lord, a help when we go forward, a comfort by the way, a shadow
from the heat, our covering from the rain and the cold, a chariot is weariness,
when we are weary, a refuge in trouble, a staff in slippery paths, a haven in
shipwreck. Do Thou lead us, that we may happily come thither where we would be,
and thereafter come again safe unto our own home. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Graciously hear
our supplications, O Lord, we beseech Thee, and order the goings of thy
servants in the safe path that leadeth unto salvation in Thee, that amidst all
the manifold changes of this life’s pilgrimage, Thy shield may never cease from
us. </span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">For as thou hast been sanctified in us in their sight, so
thou shalt be magnified among them in our presence, make them fall back as
those did before You by Your presence unceasingly and never come near us
everything and everybody in every way and now and always and unto the endless
ages of ages to come forevermore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Prevented utterly invisible + Prevented passing through the midst thereof
unharmed and untouched all of it bound and gone from us unceasingly for you
LORD are not in any of that, neither are we, forevermore<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red;">Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD PANTOCRATOR<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Kelt; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Who is</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Kelt; font-variant: small-caps;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Kelt; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">and</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Kelt; font-variant: small-caps;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Kelt; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Was</span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Kelt; font-variant: small-caps;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Kelt; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">and is to Come</span></b></span><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Kelt; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Time the created aspect of creatures
eternal but created</span></b> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; font-family: Kelt; font-size: 14.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;"> therefore not immortal O Holy Creator Who Alone Uncreated Wisdom always
teaches Your faithful always learning</span></b></span><span style="background: white; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Baruch
Adonai Yahweh Elohim eth He Creator and Artificer of all our only Teacher</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">He Spirit Absolute Intelligence Holy Unique</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Manifold
Subtle Agile</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Unstained Certain</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Not
baneful Loving the Good Keen</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Unhampered
Beneficent Kindly</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Firm
Secure Tranquil</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">All-Powerful
All-Seeing and Pervading all spirits though they be intelligent pure and very
subtle seven holy elect blessed orders</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">of
mighty doxas holy Serafim Cherubim Kuriotetes Arches especially Saint Michael
and Saint Gabriel holy Archangelos</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Exousias
Dunameis Angelos</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Uncreated
Wisdom mobile beyond all motion He penetrates and pervades all things by reason
of His purity for He is an Aura of the Might of GOD</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">and a pure Effusion of the glory of the
Almighty therefore nought that</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">is</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">sullied
enters into Him for</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">He
is the Refulgence of Eternal Light the</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Spotless
Mirror of the Energy of</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">GOD</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">the Image of His Goodness He Who is One can do
all things and renews everything while Himself perduing by His Breath passing
into holy souls from</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">age</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">to</span><span style="color: #333333;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">age He produces friends of</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">GOD</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">and prophets for there is not</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">GOD</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">loves be it not one who dwells with Wisdom for
He is Fairer than the sun and surpasses every constellation of the stars
compared to light He takes precedence for that indeed night might supplant but
wickedness prevails not over Wisdom</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Indeed
He reaches from end to end mightily and governs all</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">things
well.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">You
Holy Holy Holy Lord God Pantocrator Ahiyah asher Ahiyah eth</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Omniscient
ubiquitous above all uncontained yet containing all through all</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Baruch
Adonai Yahweh El Olam Olam eth Abba Our Father Holy through, with, in your only
Immortal Son</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">only
begotten Holy Jesus Christ our Only Lord and Saviour the only Lamb of God who
alone takes away the sin of the whole world of those who are saved</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">are
with - by your Uncreated Eternal Holy Spirit,</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">the
only Immortal one hupostasis, co-equal three hupostasies, the absolute
essential, substance, mind, wisdom, nature, energy, dominion</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; text-align: center;">
<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">above
and behind all, underpinning all, creating, framing, making, creation ex
nihilo, underlying all, immanent within all, yet uncontained by any and all</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">living
reigning ruler above, over all and always and forevermore</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">sustaining
in existence all that has been created by your sovereign power. Absolutely
untouched by evil, who by a special act of creation created the souls of all
men at the moment of conception, quickening them with our spirits by your
spirit, implanting our voice of conscience, your voice therein, permanently
uniting our souls in the form of with our bodies by your energy, as first the
Immortal soul of your Son Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour is united,
beloved, in your bosom to you God our Father of lights, with whom there is no
variation or shadow of turning, in your image and likeness in the unity of your
Holy Spirit, life quickening breath of life energy</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">self
existent, one essence, substance, threefold light of one undivided glory</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Abba
Our Father and the Son Jesus Christ our only Lord and Saviour and the Holy
Spirit our Paraclete</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">worshipped
and served by all your elect angels and saints at all times,<br />
only author of creation, redemption, salvation, sanctification</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">creating
each of us our self and endowing each of us with our capacity of memory</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Lord
have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
God our Father deliver us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
God the Son Christ Jesus our only Lord and Saviour deliver us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
God the Holy Spirit our Paraclete deliver us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Holy Trinity Adorable Unity have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Adorable Unity Immortal God Blessed Trinity have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Holy Holy Holy Lord God Pantocrator Who Is and Was and Is to Come have mercy on
us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Lord have mercy on us<br />
Baruch Adonai Yahweh Eloheinu Yahweh echad Emeth Huy Eloah Chay Melek Olam Olam
eth deliver us into your kingdom inheriting life eternal unto the endless ages
of ages to come</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and
Saviour in Your true Gospel alone Holy God, the Only Author of Covenant of
Salvation, of:</span></b><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: green; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Adam’s covenant shown forth
by the face seen by Ezechiel of a lion prefiguring the Gospel of John showing
forth the royal power and authority of Christ the Immortal Son Word Wisdom and
Power of God through whom God the Father by the Holy Spirit created all of
creation Who became Incarnate for our redemption in the flesh as Adam had
sinned in the flesh</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: green; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Noah’s covenant shown forth
by the face seen by Ezechiel of a calf prefiguring the Gospel of Luke showing
forth the sacrifice of Christ who is our Holy Only Priest Victim Sacrifice
Altar Temple Tabernacle Redeemer Salvation Immortal Immaculate Golden Ark of
the covenant showing himself forth as the only begotten Redeemer in his
Epiphany of fiery glory at his baptism in the Jordan</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: green; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Abraham’s covenant shown
forth by an Epiphany of the Lord and two angels prefiguring the Transfiguration
of Christ with: Moses, a type of the faithful departed at the future
resurrection, and Elijah, a type of the faithful living at the future
resurrection, Christ condemning for all time the darkness of idolatry which has
no communion with light - the grace of the Gospel of Christ</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: green; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Moses’ covenant shown forth
by the face seen by Ezechiel of a man prefiguring the Gospel of Matthew showing
forth the God - man prophet, the Christ, who Moses and David and Isaiah and
Habakkuk and Ezra foretold Israel would either heed or be destroyed by
rejecting, he who is our only Lord and Saviour by his most Holy Cross by which
he tread down Satan and cast him out of creation</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: green; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">David’s covenant shown forth
by the gift of prophecy, especially of the resurrection of Christ</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt;">
<span style="background: white; color: green; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Daniel’s covenant shown forth
by his vision of the ancient of days prefiguring the Gospel of Christ
especially his Ascension</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: green; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Christ Jesus Immortal Son
most Holy Angel of Almighty Counsel, Captain of the hosts of the Lord, the
giver of all covenants with God shown forth by his promise of the keys of
Himself the Messiah to Peter and to all who believe in Him - Christ Jesus our
only Lord and Saviour, the final covenant shown forth by the face seen by
Ezechiel of an eagle and through him to the Father does all glory redound in
the unity and power of the Holy Spirit, he given at Pentecost, especially
proclaimed by the Gospel of Mark of the preaching of the salvation of Christ
Jesus throughout the world, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour who descended
from the third heaven from the Father's right hand and became flesh by the Holy
Spirit, the immaculate conception and was truly born of the blessed virgin Mary
on earth, 70 generations from Adam and your creation of all of creation, thus
subsuming flesh of Adam and of all men to yourself to restore your Image and
Likeness to all the saints from the first Adam to the last saint, by you Christ
Jesus our Lord and Saviour, the only Immaculate Lamb of God who alone takes
away the sin of the whole world of those who are saved, by your most Holy Cross
and Holy Blood, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour and Holy Spirit of the Father
and the Son Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, covering the whole earth and
cleansing the whole universe, Christ Jesus our Lord and Saviour, the only first
born from the dead in the flesh, the only one resurrected, ascended, assumed
bodily in the flesh, seated at the right hand of God, Baruch Adonai Yahweh El
Olam eth Abba Our Father in the third heaven in the unity and power of the Holy
Spirit our Paraclete</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: green; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Holy
Holy Holy Lord God Pantocrator</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: green; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">and Who, Christ Jesus our
Lord and Saviour, shall return from the Father’s right hand in the same flesh
with all the elect angels and raise, first, the saints in the flesh, our same
spirits souls and bodies reunited and then all other men in the flesh, their
same souls and bodies reunited, from throughout the whole world and all of time
from the beginning of your creation until that time - known to you alone Holy
Immortal undivided trinity, in the future at your Parousia Christ Jesus our
Lord and Saviour, your saints to inherit paradise recreated then with all the
elect angels worshipping you face to face in the glory of the Father and the
union of the Holy Spirit unto the endless ages of ages - and the rest to be
cast into the lake of fire forevermore unto the same endless ages of ages to
come.</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Baruch Adonai Yahweh Elohim
eth He Creator and Artificer of all our only Teacher He Spirit Absolute
Intelligence Holy Unique</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Manifold Subtle Agile</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Clear Unstained Certain</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Not baneful Loving the Good
Keen</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Unhampered Beneficent Kindly</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Firm Secure Tranquil</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">All-Powerful All-Seeing and
Pervading all spirits though they be intelligent pure and very subtle seven
holy elect blessed orders</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">of mighty Doxas holy Serafim
Cherubim Kuriotetes Arches especially Saint Michael and Saint Gabriel holy
Archangelos</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Exousias Dunameis Angelos</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Uncreated Wisdom mobile
beyond all motion He penetrates and pervades all things by reason of His purity
for He is an Aura of the Might of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>GOD<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>and a pure Effusion of the glory
of the Almighty therefore nought that is sullied enters into Him for</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">He is the Refulgence of
Eternal Light the</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Spotless Mirror of the Energy
of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>GOD<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>the Image of His Goodness He Who
is One can do all things and renews everything while Himself perduing by His
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friends of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>GOD<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>and prophets for there is not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>GOD<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></b>loves be it not one who dwells
with Wisdom for He is Fairer than the sun and surpasses every constellation of
the stars compared to light He takes precedence for that indeed night might
supplant but wickedness prevails not over Wisdom</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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end mightily and governs all things well.</span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We arise today through Your Almighty
Sovereignty in supplication of You Blessed Trinity Holy Unity Baruch Adonai
Yahweh Elohim Yahweh eth through belief in Threeness through confession of the
Oneness of the Creator of creation Baruch Adonai Yahweh Elohim eth Who Baruch
Adonai Yahweh Elohim Olam eth Abba Our Father of Lights is the Lord God of
heaven's might Light of Your Son Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour lift up
our hearts Who bestows on us in Your Threefold light of One undivided glory
radiant fire of Your love Your Holy Spirit Your ministering spirits of fire
sent</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;">to</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;">minister</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;">to</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;">those to receive salvation in speed of lightning with might of rushing
wind heavens above</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Baruch</span></i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Arial Narrow"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Addonai Yahweh Elohim eth Who bestows upon us depth of sea stability of
earth growth of buds and flowers radiance of sun and moon and star great sea
creatures in the waters birds above flying in the swiftness of wind of the
firmament of the heavens creeping things upon and beasts of the earth burning
bush Baruch Ahiyah asher Ahiyah Most Holy Angelic Son Almighty Counselor
uncreated Light of Your Shekinah glory Pillar of Cloud Pillar of Fire firmness
of the Rock the Lion of Juda the Root and the Offspring of David the Bright and
the Morning Star Only Begotten Lamb of God First Born from the dead in the
flesh Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour the only head over Your body Whom
each of us holds directly seated at the Father's right hand in the Unity and
Power and Bond of Love of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete</span></i></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">WE</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">ARISE TODAY IN A HYMN OF PRAISE TO THE LORD OF
CREATION</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Blessing and brightness,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Wisdom, thanksgiving,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Great power and might</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">To the King who rules over all.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Glory and honor and goodwill,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Praise and the sublime song of minstrels,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Exceeding love from every heart</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">To the King of heaven and earth.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">To the chosen Trinity has been joined</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Before all, after all, universal</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Blessing and everlasting blessing,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Blessing everlasting and blessing.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Let us adore the Lord,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Maker of marvelous works,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Bright heaven with its angels,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">And on earth the white-waved sea.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">I arise today</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In Your almighty power’s strength, the invocation
of You Blessed Trinity,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Believing in Threeness,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Confessing the Adorable Oneness in Christ Jesus
Our Only Lord and Saviour</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Of You the Only Creator of creation</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">I arise today</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the power of Christ Jesus’ birth and baptism in
the flesh,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the power of His crucifixion and burial in the
same flesh,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the power of His resurrection and ascension,
assumption into the third heaven seated at the Father’s Right Hand in the same
flesh in the Unity and Power and Bond of Love of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the power of His descending in the same flesh
for the saving of the saved and the judging of the judged of doom.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">I arise today</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the power and the love of the holy seraphim,
cherubim, kuriotetes, arches especially St. Michael and St. Gabriel, holy
archangelos, exousias, dunameis, angelos</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In obedience and service In the hope of the
resurrection to receive the reward,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the prayers of patriarchs,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the predictions of prophets,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the preachings of apostles,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the faith of confessors,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the innocence of holy virgins,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In the deeds of the righteous.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">I arise today</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In heaven’s might;</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In sun’s brightness,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In moon’s radiance,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In fire’s glory,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In lightning’s quickness,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In wind’s swiftness,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In sea’s depth,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In earth’s stability,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In rock’s fixity.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">I arise today</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">with the power of God to pilot us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God's strength to uphold us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God’s energy to shield us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God's wisdom to guide us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God's eye to look ahead for us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God's ear to hear us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God's Holy Word, Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and
Saviour, to speak for us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God's Holy hand, Holy Spirit our Paraclete, to
guard us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God's Holy way, Jesus Christ The Only Way and
Truth and Life, to lie before us</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God's Holy shield to defend us,</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;">+</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">God's holy hosts and whole cloud of witnesses to
deliver us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">From all snares of the devil, all devils and
demons,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">From all evil temptations, From all who would try
to make nature fail,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">From every one who desires us ill,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Afar and anear,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Alone or in a multitude. Around us today and at
all times Holy Lord God Almighty gather all Your powers: between us and all
evil,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Against every cruel and merciless force that would
attack our spirit, soul and body,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Against charms of false prophets,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Against black laws of pagandom,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Against false laws of heretics,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Against crafty deceptions of idolatry,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Against spells of women and smiths and wizards and
all infidels,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Against all unlawful knowledge that would
otherwise harm spirit, soul and body.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">Christ Jesus protect us today</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Against poison, against burning,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Against drowning, against wounding,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">And all harm</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">So that I may have abundant reward.</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Christ with us, Christ before us, Christ behind
us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Christ within us, Christ beneath us, Christ above us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Christ on my right, Christ on my left,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Christ when I arise,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Christ in the heart of every man who thinks of us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Christ in the mouth of every man who speaks to and
of us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Christ in the eye that sees us,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Christ in the ear that hears us.</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">I arise today</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">In Your almighty power’s strength, the invocation
of You Blessed Trinity,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Believing in Threeness,</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Confessing the Adorable Oneness in Christ Jesus
Our Only Lord and Saviour</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Of You the Only Creator of creation</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">With and by the prayer and company of all Your</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Elect angels and saints for and with us
unceasingly, have mercy on us, Our Only</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Holy Lord God Who Created and Redeemed us</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Our only Righteousness</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Only Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the
world</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Our Only Sacrifice</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Our Only Priest King</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Our Only Peace from above</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Our Only Good Shepherd and Overseer of our souls</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Our Only Healer and Miracle Worker</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Our Sanctifier</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">By Your Most Holy Cross Jesus Christ</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD PANTOCRATOR</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Father Son Holy Spirit</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and by prayer and company and presence of all Your elect angels and saints, for
and with us unceasingly, all Your saints from the first Adam to the Last Saint,
the Alpha and Omega, the Saint of saints, Jesus Christ Our only Lord and
Saviour, Blessed and Only Sovereign King of kings and Lord of lords Most Holy
Angel of Almighty counsel Captain of the hosts of the Lord especially saints</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Adam
Abel Seth Enosh Kainan Mahaliel Jared Enoch in the flesh Mathusalach Lamech
Noah Heber who corrupted not his tongue at the tower of Babel Job Terah Abraham
Sarah Isaac Rebekah Jacob Rachel Leah Amram Jochabed Moses Joshua Caleb Gideon
Barak Samson Miriam Rahab Naomi Ruth Jael Deborah Jepthe's daughter Hanah
Samuel David Nathan Ahijah Elijah in the flesh Elisha Hosea Amos Jonah Micah
Isaiah Ezechias Judith Nahum Joel Zephaniah Habakkuk Ezekiel Jeremiah Obadiah
Daniel Haggai Zechariah Malachi Zachary Simeon John the Baptist Joseph Mary
Anna Elizabeth Joseph and Mary's sons James Joseph Jude Simon and their
daughters Your half brothers and sisters in the flesh Jesus Christ our only
Lord and Saviour Incarnate Son of God</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Most Holy Lord God Pantocrator in the Flesh
</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">+</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mary of Magdalene Mary, Jesus Christ our only
Lord and Saviour Your mother's sister, Mary wife of Cleophas James and Joseph
their sons Salome Zebedee and his wife parents of John and James Boanerges
Lazarus Mary and Martha Mary mother of John Mark Peter Paul Andrew James John
Thomas James Philip Bartholomew Matthew Simon Thaddeus Matthias Barnabas Silas
Luke Mark Epaphras Timothy Onesimas Archippus Philemon Ceasar Hermas
Aristobulus Apollos Cephas Epaphroditus Sosthenes Agabus Asyncritus Hermes
Herodian Phlegon Rufus Aristarchus Pudens Trophimus Jason Mark the Evangelist
Simeon son of Cleophas Sosipater Andronicus Agabus Carpus Hermes Barnabas
Achaicus Fortunatus Archippus Philemon Aquila Nicanor Parmenas Prochorus Timon
Andronicus Crescens Epaenetus Silvanus Thaddeus Titus Euodia Onesiphoras
Apelles Clement Lucius Quadratus Aristarchus Mark Zenas Ananias Crispus Phillip
the Deacon and Evangelist Artemas Cleophas Justus Mark Amplias Apelles
Aristobulus Narcissus Stachys Urbanus Philemon Gaius Hermas Linus Patrobus
Philogus Erastas Herodian Olympas Sosipater Quartus Tertius James the Righteous
the brother of the Lord in the flesh Apollos Ceasar Cephas Epaphroditus
Onesiphoras Sosthenes Tychicus Stephen Timon Lucius Manahen All Your Holy
Innocents for all the innocent Stephen Nazarius Celsus Antipas Papias Ignatius
Zosimus Rufus Polycarp Justin Pothinus Clement Sanctus Attalus Lawrence Clement
Vincent Fabian and Sebastian John and Paul Cosmas and Damian Pantaleon
Hermolaus Hermippus Hermocrates Gervase and Protase Ponticus Athenogenes
Vettius Apagatus Irenaeus Cyril Hippolytus Cyprian Donatian and Rogatian
Processus and Martinian Mark and Marcellianus Crispin and Crispinian Severianus
and his companions Nestorius Anastasius Joanna Susanna Mary at Rome Phoebe
Julia Agatha Lucy Perpetua Felicitas Agnes Blandina Cecilia Catherine Anastasia
Scholastica Monica Bibiana Demetria Ursula Barbara Persis Syntyche Chloe
Tryphena and Tryphosa Petronilla Peter's wife seventy thousands of Japan
millions under Tamerlane all Your martyrs from Abel on who did not bow the knee
to baal neither do we Papias Clement Ignatius Polycarp Pothinus Irenaeus Justin
Hegesippus Hippolytus Clement of Alexandria Origen Paul the Hermit Antony of
the desert Eusebius Athanasius of Egypt contra-mundum Gregory Nazianzen
Marcellinus Epiphanius Jacob of Nisibis Aphrahat of Persia Ephrem of Syria
Cyril of Jerusalem Basil Hilary Ambrose Serapion of Thmuis Asterius Synesius
Jerome Pelagius Augustin of Hippo Julian of Eclanum Paulinus Prudentius Patrick
Remigius Andrew of Ceasarea Brendan Benedict of Nursia Columbkille Columban
Pelagius Gregory I Augustine of Canterbury Isadore of Seville John Damascene
Venantius Fortunatus Maximus Bede Cosmas of Maiuma Gregory of Narek Anselm
Theophylact Francis Richard Francis Xavier Paschal Huchede Pius X Adrian
Fortescue Christian martyrs under</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">11<sup>th</sup></span></u></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">century Egypt-Syria</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">12<sup>th</sup></span></u></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></u></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">century Almohad</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">13th</span></u></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></u></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">century Persia</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">14th</span></u></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></u></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">century Tamerlane</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">15th</span></u></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></u></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">century Turks</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">16th
17th</span></u></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">century Japan</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">18th
19th</span></u></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">century France</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><u><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">20th
21th</span></u></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">century Armenia Russia
Palestine Poland Germany China Cuba Sudan India Iraq Greece throughout the
earth, St. Enoch in the flesh and St.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Elijah
in the flesh, Your holy prophets yet to return</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Save
and deliver us bless us grant us long life and good health protect us lead us
into the path of sanctification by Your Holy Spirit our Paraclete indwelling us
bringing with you God Our Father and the Son Jesus Christ Our</span> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Only</span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Lord and Saviour Threefold Light of One Undivided
Glory in our spirit soul flesh in Your joy to do Your will in all things at all
times all the innocent all men at the moment of conception Your faithful
apostles prophets shepherds elders teachers evangelists overseers serving
faithful whole priesthood of the faithful those having works of miracles gifts
of healing services of help for the poor and needy teaching Your true Gospel
administrations tongues and translation martyrs and saints all who truly write
us in Your most Holy Name all men who have ears to hear Your voice for Your
sheep hear Your voice and do Your will unto all salvation eternal and temporal</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Holy
God of Covenant</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">+</span></b></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">have
mercy on in spirit soul flesh and have us do the same for the sake of Your most
Holy Name, God of Covenant of no bribe or secret gift have I taken from any
man, in our word and deed without fee or reward for ourselves - on</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">All the innocent children elderly infirm orphan
widow needy poor hungry thirsty stranger naked sick imprisoned Your persecuted
church captive in tribulation and all Your lost sheep unceasingly</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Immortal
Son of God Most Holy Angel of Almighty Counsel O Lord Christ Jesus our only
Saviour in the Unity and Power and Bond of Love of Your Holy Spirit our
Paraclete with us a help when we go forward</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ
Jesus uncreated Light before us a comfort by the way our spirits poor of Your
kingdom with no strange gods in longsuffering</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ
Jesus Shekinah glory behind us a shadow from the heat mourning comforting whom
you will blessing Your Holy Name in faith</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus Pillar of
cloud Pillar of fire within us guided supernaturally by Your star as the wise
men meekly throughout the earth the day holy to the Lord in virtue and strength<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus firmness
the Rock beneath us grant us goodspeed and quietness in hungering and thirsting
for righteousness to fill the empty honoring our fathers and mothers in self
control<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus the Lion
of Juda above us a covering from the rain and cold spreading abroad Your mercy
with no killing or hatred except of evil in endurance<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus the root
and offspring of David to the right of us a chariot in weariness in pure heart
seeing God with no adultery with honesty in brotherly love<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus the bright
and the Morning star to the left of us a refuge in trouble a safe path always
Your peacemakers sons of God persecuted for Your sake bearing no false witness
with no covetousness in Your joy all true Christian totally pro-life rulers
doing Your will aided and guided by You at all times in everything<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus in
phronimos mild as doves in our lying down shield Almighty always without peer
about us<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus in
goodness in our sitting up with Michael and Gabriel lead in Salvation always<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus in Your
supernatural knowledge in our rising up a staff in slippery paths a haven in
shipwreck<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus in
kindness in the heart of all who think of us<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus in
godliness on the tongue of all who think of us and speak of us and to us<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus in love
on the brow of all who think of us and see us<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 14.0pt;">Christ Jesus in the
eye and ear of all who perceive us who see us who hear us who hate us who love
us who reject us who welcome us - may all Your sheep welcome us in peace</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><b><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">+</span></b></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD PANTOCRATOR</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">FATHER SON JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR
HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">THROUGH JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR
THE ONLY MEDIATOR BETWEEN GOD AND MAN</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">HOLY SPIRIT HOLY DUNAMIS HOLY ENERGY</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Indwelling the</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Blessed Virgin Mary, BLESSED SPIKENARD, by which
You were conceived and truly born on earth 70 generations from Adam and Your
creation of all creation thus subsuming flesh of Adam and all men, HOLY CROCUS,
Immortal Son of God Immortal Soul descended from the third heaven from the Father’s
right hand for our salvation</span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">JESUS CHRIST INCARNATE WORD OF GOD LIGHT OF THE
WORLD EMPOWER US FORESEEING CLOTHED IN WHITE IN LOVE IN THE EVERGREEN LAUREL OF
ETERNAL LIFE</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">+</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"> by the Most Cross and Blood of Our Only Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ infinitely pure and undefiled </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">covering the whole earth and cleansing the
whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost
sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our
deliverance from all of our enemies visible and invisible</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">JESUS CHRIST EPIPHANY OF RADIANT FIRE IN SPIRITUAL
WONDROUS KNOWLEDGE SHIELD US INSTANTANEOUSLY CLEANSING SUPERNATURAL RED VINE</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">+</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"> by the Most Cross and Blood of Our Only Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ infinitely pure and undefiled </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">covering the whole earth and cleansing the
whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost
sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our
deliverance from all of our enemies visible and invisible</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">JESUS CHRIST TRANSFIGURED SHEKINAH GLORY IN
IMMACULATE PURITY SPIRIT OF THE SON FILL US WITH THE AURA OF YOUR MIGHT
DESCENDING THROUGH DEEP BLUE OF YOUR DAWN</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">+</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"> by the Most Cross and Blood of Our Only Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ infinitely pure and undefiled </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">covering the whole earth and cleansing the
whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost
sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our
deliverance from all of our enemies visible and invisible</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIED FOR US YOUR BLOOD AND WATER
ENLIGHTENED QUICKENING FORCE NOURISH US IN YOUR ALMIGHTY GLORY BY THE HOLY
GOLDEN BROWN WOOD OF YOUR CROSS</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">+</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"> by the Most Cross and Blood of Our Only Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ infinitely pure and undefiled </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">covering the whole earth and cleansing the
whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost
sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our
deliverance from all of our enemies visible and invisible</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">JESUS CHRIST RESURRECTED FIRST BORN BY YOUR
EXOUSIAS BREATH OF GOD IN REPULSE OF ALL EVIL INCREASE IN US THE REFULGENCE OF
YOUR ETERNAL LIGHT HOLY IMMORTAL IMMACULATE GOLDEN ARK OF THE COVENANT</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">+</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"> by the Most Cross and Blood of Our Only Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ infinitely pure and undefiled </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">covering the whole earth and cleansing the
whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost
sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our
deliverance from all of our enemies visible and invisible</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">JESUS CHRIST ASCENDED TO THE FATHER'S RIGHT HAND
IN YOUR MIRACULOUS POWER YOUR TAATSUMAH WATER OF LIFE STRENGHTEN US SPOTLESS
MIRROR OF GOD CLEAR SILVER SEVEN TIMES PURE</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">+</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"> by the Most Cross and Blood of Our Only Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ infinitely pure and undefiled </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">covering the whole earth and cleansing the
whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost
sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our
deliverance from all of our enemies visible and invisible</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">JESUS CHRIST PENTECOST COME HAVING POURED FORTH
THE PROMISE OF GOD OUR FATHER THE HOLY SPIRIT CHOKMAH YOU THE LAST ADAM YOUR
REAL PRESENCE TRULY MADE MANIFEST AGAIN IN YOUR EUCHARIST WHOM ALONE YOU GIVE
TO US HOLY LORD GOD ENLIVEN PROTECT US IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF YOUR
GOODNESS ROSEATE BEAUTY IMMACULATE WHITE LIFE</span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Come Holy Spirit Wisdom Energy</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">+</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: red; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"> by the Most Cross and Blood of Our Only Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ infinitely pure and undefiled </span></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">covering the whole earth and cleansing the
whole universe throughout the entire earth for the salvation of all Your lost
sheep and the deliverance of all the innocent and all Your faithful and our
deliverance from all of our enemies visible and invisible</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span">MOST HOLY LORD GOD ALMIGHTY Abba Our Father
through You alone, Immortal Son - Soul in the Form of God in the Bosom of the
Father Only-begotten Incarnate Word Wisdom Power of the Father, Jesus Christ
Our Only Lord and Saviour, send forth Your Holy Spirit, Life Quickening Breath
of Life Energy, our Paraclete, with and by the prayer and company and presence of
all Your elect angels and saints, enkindle in our hearts the fire of Your love
and we shall be created and you shall renew the face of the earth.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">Through our only Lord God Saviour King in
the flesh the Divine Warrior, Jesus Christ, alone, with and by the prayer and
company and presence of all Your elect angels and saints, Glory be to God Our
Father in the third heaven and to the Son Jesus Christ and to the Holy Spirit
our Paraclete as it was before all time and creation, Creator and Ruler over
all and now and always and unto the endless ages of ages to come.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><br />
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</span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;">BLESSED AND ONLY HOLY GOD GRANT US TO
DO YOUR WILL IN ALL THINGS THAT WE WILL BE ACCOUNTED WORTHY OF THE EIGHTH DAY
WITH YOU</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 13.0pt;"><br />
<br />
<span class="apple-style-span">THE DAWN WILL COME ON THE EIGHTH DAY, AT CHRIST’S
PAROUSIA IN THE SAME FLESH IN WHICH HE SUFFERED AND IS RISEN AND GLORIFIED,
WHEN HE WILL RECREATE HIS CREATION, ACCORDING TO THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST- SHOWN
FORTH IN THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW AND THE GOSPEL OF MARK AND THE GOSPEL OF LUKE
AND THE GOSPEL OF JOHN; THE LORD GOD YAHWEH YESHUA RUACH YAHWEH INDWELLING
FULLY ALL IN THE ETERNAL LIFE REALM, SENTIENT LIFE REALM, SIMPLE LIFE REALM,
INANIMATE LIFE REALM, WITH HIS ATTENDANT MINISTERING SPIRITS OF FIRE, HIS ELECT
ANGELS, IN COMMUNION WITH ALL MEN WHO ARE SAVED, RESURRECTED BY HIM THEN HERE
ON EARTH, THRICE HOLY LORD GOD YAHWEH INDWELLING ALL OF YOUR SAINTS IN THE
KINGDOM IN OUR SPIRITS SOULS BODIES FOREVERMORE UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES
TO COME. AMEN</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 10.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.8pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.8pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">because He has anointed me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to bring glad tidings to the poor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He has sent me to proclaim liberty to captives and
recovery of sight to the blind,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.8pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">to let the oppressed go free,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And again it says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Rejoice, ye Gentiles, with His people." And
again:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Praise the Lord, all
you Gentiles,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and let all the peoples praise him." And again
Isaiah says:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"The Root of Jesse shall
come,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">raised up to rule the Gentiles;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and in Him shall the Gentiles hope."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Who, though He was in the form of God,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">did not regard equality with God as something to be
grasped at.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But rather, He emptied himself, taking the form of a
slave, coming in likeness to a Man;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and found in appearance as a Man,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">He humbled himself,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">becoming obedient unto death, even unto the death of
the Cross.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Because of this, God greatly
exalted Him and bestowed on Him the name that is above every other name,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">that at the name of Jesus
every knee should bend, of those in heaven and on earth and under the earth,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and that everyone will
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, unto the glory of God the Father.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Therefore does He say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.8pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"He ascended on high and took prisoners captive;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 15.8pt; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and he gave gifts unto men."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Awake, one asleep,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and arise from the dead,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17.75pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">and the Christ will give you
light.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">And he showed me a river of
the water of life, clear as crystal, coming forth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.4pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">from the throne of God and of
the Lamb.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">In the midst of the place
thereof, and on both sides of the river, was the tree<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">of life, bearing twelve
fruits, yielding its fruit according to each month and<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">the leaves of the tree for
the healing of the nations. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">But the wise shall shine like
the splendour of the firmament and those who<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 18.7pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">lead the many to
righteousness shall be like the stars in the firmament of<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 17.25pt; text-align: justify; text-autospace: ideograph-numeric;">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">heaven unto the ages of ages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Amen. Come Lord Jesus, the
grace of Our Lord Jesus Christ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">be with all
the saints. Amen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">+<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">St. Mark and <st1:place w:st="on">St.</st1:place> James<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">We give Thee thanks, yea,
more than thanks, O Lord our God, the Father of our Lord and God and Saviour
Jesus Christ, for all Thy goodness at all times and in all places, because Thou
hast shielded, rescued, helped, and guided us all the days of our lives, and
brought us unto this hour, permitting us gain to stand before Thee in Thy holy
place, that we may implore forgiveness of our sins and propitiation to all Thy
people. We pray and beseech Thee, merciful God, to grant in Thy goodness that
we may spend this holy day and all the time of our lives without sin, in
fullness of joy, health, safety, holiness, and reverence of Thee. But all envy,
all fear, all temptation, all the influence of Satan, all the snares of wicked
men every spirit visible and invisible thereof, do Thou, O Lord, drive away
from us, and from Thy Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church each of us holding
Thou the head Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour alone. Bestow upon us, O
Lord, what is good and meet. Whatever sin we commit in thought, word, or deed,
do Thou in Thy goodness and mercy be pleased to pardon. Leave us not, O Lord,
while we hope in Thee; nor lead us into temptation, but deliver us from the
evil one and from all his works and minions, through the grace, mercy, and love
of Thine only-begotten Son. O Sovereign Lord Christ Jesus, the co-eternal Word
of the eternal Father, who wast made in all things like as we are, but without
sin, for the salvation of our race; who hast sent forth Thy holy disciples and
apostles to proclaim and teach the Gospel of Thy kingdom, and to heal all
disease, all sickness among Thy people, be pleased now, O Lord, to send forth
Thy light and Thy truth. Enlighten the eyes of our minds, that we may
understand Thy divine oracles. Fit us to become hearers, and not only hearers,
but doers of Thy word, that we, becoming fruitful, and yielding good fruit from
thirty to an hundred fold, may be deemed worthy of the kingdom of heaven. Let
Thy mercy speedily overtake us, O Lord. For Thou art the bringer of good
tidings, the Saviour and Guardian of our spirits, souls and bodies and we offer
glory, thanks, and the “Thrice Holy Hymn” to Thee, the Father, Son, and Holy
Ghost, now, henceforth, and for evermore. Holy God, holy almighty, holy
immortal. Holy, holy, holy, O Lord God of Sabaoth, the heaven and the earth are
full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest; blessed is He that cometh in the name
of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest, Look down in mercy and compassion, O Lord,
and heal the sick among Thy people. May we and all our brethren who have gone
or who are about to go abroad, safely reach their destination in due season and
come home again safely at all times. Send down the gracious rain upon the
thirsty lands, and make the rivers flow in full stream, according to Thy grace.
The fruits of the land do Thou, O Lord, fill with seed and make ripe for the
harvest. In peace, courage, justice, and tranquillity preserve the kingdom of
Thy servants, all priesthood of the faithful and kings upon the earth, whom
Thou hast deemed worthy to reign over this earth. From evil days, from famine
and pestilence, from the assault of barbarians, defend, O Lord, this
Christ-loving city Thy body Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour, lowly and
worthy of Thy compassion, as Thou didst spare <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Nineveh</st1:place></st1:city> of old. For Thou art full of mercy
and compassion, and rememberest not the iniquities of men against them. Thou
hast said through Thy prophet Isaiah, I will defend this city, to save it for
mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake. Wherefore we pray and beseech
Thee to defend in Thy good mercy this city, for the sake of Thee confessed by
patriarchs, prophets, martyrs, disciples, apostles, evangelists and saints from
Adam on, Thou who has shown us the way of salvation through the grace, mercy,
and love of Thee only-begotten Son Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour.
Through whom and with whom be glory and power to Thee MOST BLESSED LORD YAHWEH
GOD ETERNAL Abba Our Father, with Thy all-holy, good, and life-giving Spirit
our Paraclete. Guide and direct in all peace from above in Thy Righteousness
the kings, armies, magistrates, councils, peoples, and neighborhoods, and all
our outgoings and incomings.<br />
O King of Peace Baruch Adonai Yahweh Elohim Melek Olam eth, grant us Thy peace
in unity and love. May we be Thine, O Lord; for we know no other God but Thee,
and name no other name Baruch Adonai Yahweh Eloheinu Yahweh Echad, Thou YAHWEH,
YESHUA, RUACH YAHWEH but Thine Our Father and the Son Jesus Christ and the Holy
Spirit. Give life unto the souls of all of us, and let no deadly sin prevail
against us, or against all Thy people.<br />
Look down in mercy and compassion, O Lord, and heal the sick among Thy people.
Deliver them and us, O Lord, from sickness and disease, and drive away the
spirit of weakness.<br />
Raise up those who have been long afflicted, and heal those who are vexed with
unclean spirits.<br />
Have mercy on all who are in prison, or in mines, or on trial, or condemned, or
in exile, or crushed by cruel bondage or tribute. Deliver them, O Lord, for
Thou art our God, who settest the captives free; who raisest up the downtrodden;
who givest hope to the hopeless, and help to the helpless; who liftest up the
fallen; who givest refuge to the shipwrecked, and vengeance to the oppressed.
Pity, relieve, and restore every Christian soul that is afflicted or wandering.
But do Thou, O Lord, the physician of our spirits, souls and bodies, the
guardian of all flesh, look down, and by Thy saving power heal all the diseases
of spirit, soul and body.<br />
Guide and prosper our brethren who have gone or who are about to go abroad.
Whether they travel by land, or river, or lake, by public road, or in whatever
way journeying, bring them everywhere to a safe and tranquil haven. Be pleased
to be with them by land, sea and air, and restore them in health and joy to
joyful and healthful homes. <br />
Ever defend, O Lord, our journey through this life from trouble and storm.<br />
Send down rich and copious showers on the dry and thirsty lands.<br />
Gladden and revive the face of the earth, that it may spring forth and rejoice
in the raindrops.<br />
Make the waters of the river flow in full stream.<br />
Gladden and revive the face of the earth with the swelling waters.<br />
Fill all the channels of the streams, and multiply the fruits of the earth.<br />
Bless, O Lord, the fruits of the earth, and keep them safe and unharmed. Fill
them with seed, and make them ripe for the harvest.<br />
Bless even now, O Lord God Our Father, Thy yearly crown of blessing for the
sake of the poor of Thy people, the widow, the orphan, and the stranger, and
for the sake of all of us who have our hope in Thee and call upon Thy holy
name; for the eyes of all are upon Thee, and Thou givest them bread in due
season.<br />
O Thou who givest food to all flesh, fill our hearts with joy and gladness,
that at all times, having all sufficiency, we may abound to every good work in
Thou Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour. O Only Sovereign King of kings and
Lord of lords, defend the kingdom of Thy servants, we Thine orthodox believers
and who love Thee Christ Thy priesthood and kings, whom Thou hast deemed worthy
to reign over these lands in peace, courage, and justice.<br />
Subdue under us, O Lord, every enemy and adversary, whether at home or abroad.
Gird on Thy shield and armour, and rise to our aid guide us in all things to do
what is gracious and pleasing in Thy sight. Draw Thy sword, and help us to
fight against them that persecute us. Shield us in the day of battle, and grant
that the fruit of our loins one like to us in Thee may sit upon Thy throne with
Thee and us.<br />
Be kind to us, O Lord, for the sake of Thy love for Thy Holy and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Apostolic</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></st1:place>, all Thy Christ-loving people,
that we too in Thy peaceful reign may live a calm and tranquil life, in all
reverence and godliness.<br />
O Lord our God, give peace to the souls of our fathers and brethren who have
fallen asleep in Jesus, remembering our forefathers of old, our fathers,
patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs, confessors, bishops, and the souls of
all the holy and just men who have died in the Lord.<br />
Be mindful, O Lord, of the return of the back-sliding, and of every Christian
soul that is afflicted and oppressed, and in need of Thy divine mercy and help.<br />
Be mindful, O Lord, of our brethren in captivity. Grant that they may find
mercy and compassion with those who have led them captive and immediate release
and return home in peace and health and happiness.<br />
Be mindful also of us, O Lord, Thy sinful and unworthy servants, and blot out
our sins in Thy goodness and mercy.<br />
Be mindful also of me, Thy lowly, sinful, and unworthy servant, and in Thy
mercy blot out my sins. Be with us, O Lord, who minister unto Thy holy name.<br />
Bless our meetings, O Lord.<br />
Utterly uproot all idolatry all witchcraft from the world. <br />
Crush under our feet Satan and all his minions, and all their wicked influence.<br />
Humble now, as at all times, the enemies of Thy Church Thou and us, unto
immediate absolute total complete destruction.<br />
Lay bare their pride.<br />
Speedily show them their weakness.<br />
Bring to naught the wicked plots they contrive against us.<br />
Arise, O Lord, and let Thine enemies be scattered, and let all who hate Thy
holy name be put to flight.<span style="color: red;"> +<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Do Thou bless a thousand times
ten thousand Thy faithful Christian Catholic whole orthodox people while they
do Thy holy will.<br />
Deliver the captive; rescue the distressed feed the hungry; comfort the
faint-hearted, convert the erring; enlighten the darkened; raise the fallen;
confirm the wavering; heal the sick; and guide them all, good Lord, into the
way of salvation, and into Thy sacred fold. Deliver us from our iniquities;
protect and defend us at all times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Bless those who do us good
for the sake of Thy Most Holy Name Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour.<br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">+<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Save Thy people, O Lord, and
bless Thine inheritance.<br />
Visit Thy world in mercy and compassion.<br />
Exalt the horn of Christians by the power of the Thy precious and quickening
cross <u><span style="color: red;">+</span></u><span style="color: red;"> </span>O
Holy only one worthy of worship in the flesh Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and
Saviour.<br />
We beseech Thee, most merciful Lord, hear us praying to Thee, and have mercy
upon us.<br />
Let us all entreat from the Lord, that we may pass the whole day, perfect,
holy, peaceful, and without sin.<br />
Let us entreat from the Lord a messenger of peace, a faithful guide, a guardian
of our spirits, souls and bodies.<br />
Let us entreat from the Lord forgiveness and remission of our sins and transgressions.<br />
Let us entreat from the Lord the things which are good and proper for our
spirits, souls and bodies, and peace for the world from above.<br />
Let us entreat from the Lord, that we may spend the remaining period of our
life in peace and health <u><span style="color: red;">+</span></u>.<br />
Let us entreat that the close of our lives may be Christian, without pain and
without shame, and a good plea at the dread and awful judgment-seat of Christ.<br />
God, who hast taught us Thy divine and saving oracles, enlighten the spirits,
souls and bodies of us sinners for the comprehension of the things which have
been before spoken, so that we may not only be seen to be hearers of spiritual
things, but also doers of good deeds, striving after guileless faith, blameless
life, and pure conversation. O Sovereign giver of life, and provider of good
things, who didst give to mankind the blessed and only hope of eternal life,
our Only Lord and Saviour Lord Jesus Christ, count us worthy in holiness, and
perfect this Thy divine service to the enjoyment of future blessedness.<br />
So that, guarded by Thy power at all times, and led into the light of truth, we
may send up the praise and the thanksgiving to Thee, the Father, the Son, and
the Holy Spirit, now and ever.<br />
Sovereign Almighty, King of Glory, who knowest all things before their
creation, manifest Thyself to us calling upon Thee at this holy hour, and redeem
us from the shame of our transgressions; cleanse our mind and our thoughts from
impure desires, from worldly deceit, from all influence of the devil; <u><span style="color: red;">+</span></u><span style="color: red;"> </span>and accept from
the hands of us sinners this incense, as Thou didst accept the offering of
Abel, and Noah, and Aaron, and Samuel, and of all Thy saints, guarding us from
everything evil <u><span style="color: red;">+</span></u>, and preserving us for
continually pleasing, and worshipping, and glorifying Thee, the Father, and Thy
only-begotten Son, and Thy all-holy Spirit, now and always, and for ever. In
peace let us pray to the Lord. O Lord, have mercy. Save us, have mercy upon us,
pity and keep us, O God, by Thy grace.<br />
For the peace that is from above, and the loving-kindness of God, and the
salvation of our spirits, souls and bodies;<br />
Let us beseech the Lord.<br />
For the peace of the whole world, and the unity of all the holy churches of
God;<br />
Let us beseech the Lord.<br />
For those who bear fruit, and labour honourably in the holy churches of God;
for those who remember the poor, the widows and the orphans, the strangers and
needy ones; and for those who have requested us to mention them in our prayers;<br />
Let us beseech the Lord.<br />
For those who are in old age and infirmity, for the sick and suffering, and
those who are troubled by unclean spirits, for their speedy cure from God and
their salvation;<br />
Let us beseech the Lord.<br />
For those who are passing their days in virginity, and celibacy, and discipline,
and for those in holy matrimony; and for the holy fathers and brethren
agonizing in mountains, and dens, and caves of the earth;<br />
Let us beseech the Lord.<br />
For Christians sailing, traveling by land and air, living among strangers, and
for our brethren in captivity, in exile, in prison, and in bitter slavery,
their peaceful return;<br />
Let us beseech the Lord.<br />
For the remission of our sins, and forgiveness of our transgressions, and for
our deliverance from all tribulation, wrath, danger, and constraint, and uprising
against us of enemies visible and invisible; <span style="color: red;">+</span><br />
Let us beseech the Lord.<br />
For favourable weather, peaceful showers, beneficent dews, abundance of fruits,
the perfect close of a good season, and for the crown of the year;<br />
Let us beseech the Lord.<br />
For our fathers and brethren present, and praying with us in this holy hour,
and at every season, their zeal, labour, and earnestness;<br />
Let us beseech the Lord. <br />
For every Christian soul in tribulation and distress, and needing the mercy and
succour of God; for the return of the erring, the health of the sick, the
deliverance of the captives, the rest of the fathers and brethren that have
fallen asleep aforetime;<br />
Let us beseech the Lord.<br />
For the hearing and acceptance of our prayer before God, and the sending down
on us His rich mercies and compassion.<br />
Let us beseech the Lord. <br />
And for the offered, precious, heavenly, unutterable, pure, glorious, dread,
awful, divine gifts, and the salvation by the Only Heavenly Priest Jesus Christ
Our Only Lord and Saviour who alone offers them;<br />
Let us offer supplication to God the Lord.<br />
O Lord, have mercy. Holy, holy, holy, O Lord God of Sabaoth, the heaven and the
earth are full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest; blessed is He that cometh
in the name of the Lord Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour. Hosanna in the
highest. Remember also, O Lord, our holy fathers and brethren in it, and the
bishops in all the world, who rightly divide the word of Thee Christ Jesus the
only truth.<br />
Remember also, O Lord, every city and country, and those of the true faith
dwelling in them, their peace and security.<br />
Remember, O Lord, Christians sailing, traveling by land and traveling by air,
sojourning in strange lands; our fathers and brethren, who are in bonds,
prison, captivity, and exile; who are in mines, and under torture, and in
bitter slavery. Remember, O Lord, the sick and afflicted, and those troubled by
unclean spirits, their speedy healing from Thee, O God, and their salvation.<br />
Remember, O Lord, every Christian soul in affliction and distress, needing Thy
mercy and succour, O God; and the return of the erring.<br />
Remember, O Lord, our fathers and brethren, toiling hard, and ministering unto
us, for Thy holy name’s sake.<br />
Remember all, O Lord, for good; have mercy on all, O Lord, be reconciled to us
all; give peace to the multitudes of Thy people; put away scandals; bring wars
to an end; make the uprising of heresies to cease; grant Thy peace and Thy love
to us, O God our Saviour, the hope of all the ends of the earth destroying the
great apostasy.<br />
Remember, O Lord, favourable weather, peaceful showers, beneficent dews,
abundance of fruits, and to crown the year with Thy goodness; for the eyes of
all wait on Thee, and Thou givest their food in due season; thou openest Thy
hand, and fillest every living thing with gladness.<br />
Remember, O Lord, those who bear fruit, and labour honourably in the holy of
Thy Church; and those who forget not the poor, the widows, the orphans, the
strangers, and the needy; and all who have desired us to remember them in our
prayers.<br />
Moreover, O Lord, be pleased to remember those who have brought these offerings
this day to Thy holy altar Thou Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour, and for
what each one has brought them or with what mind, and those persons who have
just now been mentioned to Thee.<br />
Remember, O Lord, according to the multitude of Thy mercy and compassion, me also,
Thy humble and unprofitable servant; and those who surround Thee Thyself Thy
holy altar, and graciously give us a blameless life, keep our ministries
undefiled, and purchase for us a good degree, that we may find mercy and grace,
with all the saints that have been well pleasing to Thee since the world began,
to generation and generation-grandsires, sires, patriarchs, prophets, apostles,
martyrs, confessors, teachers, saints, and every just spirit made perfect in
the faith of Thee O Holy and Only Christ Jesus Our Saviour Sovereign Lord of
all.<br />
Make the end of our lives Christian, acceptable, blameless, and peaceful, O
Lord, gathering us together, O Lord Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour,
under the feet of Thee joining us with Thine elect, when Thou wilt, and as Thou
wilt; only without shame and transgressions, through Thee only-begotten Son,
our only Lord and God and Saviour Jesus Christ; for He is the only sinless one
who hath appeared on the earth, a propitiation for our transgressions and the
errors of the people; and for the rest of the souls that have fallen asleep
aforetime; that we also, Thy humble, sinful, and unworthy servants, being
counted worthy without guile to serve Thee Holy Altar Christ Jesus, may receive
the reward of faithful and wise stewards, and may find grace and mercy in the
terrible day of Thy just and good retribution. For the peace and establishing
of the whole world, and of the holy churches of God, and for the purposes for
which each one made his offering, or according to the desire he has; and for
the people standing round, and for all men, and all women at the moment of
conception and all Thy repentant <u><span style="color: red;">+</span></u>;<br />
Forgive, remit, pardon, O God, our transgressions, voluntary and involuntary;
in deed and in word; in knowledge and in ignorance; by night and by day; in
thought and intent; in Thy goodness and love, forgive us them all. Through the
grace and compassion and love of Thy only-begotten Son, with whom Thou art
blessed and glorified, together with the all-holy, and good, and quickening
Spirit, unceasingly and now and always, and unto the eternal ages to come in
Thy recreated universe in the future at Thy Parousia Christ Jesus Our Only Lord
and Saviour. For the remission of our sins, and the propitiation of our
spirits, souls and bodies, and for every soul in tribulation and distress,
needing the mercy and succour of God, and for the return of the erring, the
healing of the sick, the deliverance of the captives, the rest of our fathers
and brethren who have fallen asleep aforetime;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 17.0pt;">GLORIA IN PATRI ET IN FILII ET IN SPIRITU
SANCTE<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 17.0pt;">MOST BLESSED GLORIOUS ETERNAL HOLY TRINITY
ADORABLE UNITY IN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 17.0pt;">THE GLORY OF YOUR MAJESTY IN THE SPLENDOUR
OF YOUR POWER<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 17.0pt;">EXALTED UNTO THE AGES OF AGES<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Lord, have mercy<br />
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GLORY to God on high, and on earth peace to men of good will. We praise Thee;
we bless Thee; we adore Thee; we glorify Thee. We give Thee thanks for Thy
great glory, O Lord God, Heavenly King, God the Father Almighty. O Lord Jesus
Christ, the Only-begotten Son. O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, Who
takest away the sins of the world, have mercy on us. Who takest away the sins
of the world, receive our prayer. Who sittest at the right hand of the Father,
have mercy on us. For Thou alone art holy; Thou alone art The Lord; Thou alone
art most high, O Jesus Christ, together with the Holy Spirit, in the glory of
God the Father. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">'Agious 'Agious 'Agious
Kurios 'O Theos 'O Pantocrator<br />
Baruch Adonai Yahweh Eloheinu Yahweh echad eth<br />
Yahweh El Olam Olam <br />
Abba Our Father Son Yeshua ha Mashiach Emmanuel Jesus Christ Our Lord and
Saviour Holy Spirit Ruach Yahweh Chokma Abiyr our Paraclete<br />
Yahweh Elohim Melek eth El Shaddai Yaoth Qadosh eth Alone,<br />
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Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus exercituum: Plena est caeli et terra
gloria tua: Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto.<br />
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Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts, heaven and earth are full of Thy Glory. Hosanna
in the highest. Glory be to God Our Father, and to the Son Jesus Christ Our
Only Lord and Saviour, and to the Holy Spirit Our Paraclete.<br />
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Glory to Thee Father of Lights Who through Thy Son Christ Jesus by the Holy
Spirit, hast shown forth Thy Light.<br />
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GLORY to God in the highest, and on earth peace, towards men of good will.<br />
We praise Thee; we bless Thee; we worship Thee; we glorify Thee; we<br />
give thanks to Thee for Thy great glory:<br />
O Lord God, Heavenly King, God the Father Almighty, O Lord the Only-begotten
Son, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit our Paraclete.<br />
O Lord God, Lamb of God, Son of the Father, that takest away the sin of<br />
the world: have mercy on us, Thou that takest away the sins of the world.<br />
Receive our prayer, Thou that sittest at the right hand of the Father;<br />
and have mercy on us.<br />
For Thou only art holy; Thou only art Lord, Jesus Christ, to the glory<br />
of God the Father. Amen.<br />
Every day will I bless Thee, and I will praise Thy Name for ever, yea,<br />
for ever and ever.<br />
Vouchsafe, O Lord, to keep us this day without sin.<br />
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, the God of our Fathers, and praised and<br />
glorified is Thy Name unto the ages. Amen.<br />
Let Thy mercy, Lord, be upon us, according as we have hoped in<br />
Thee.<br />
Blessed art Thou, O Lord, teach me Thy statutes. (Thrice)<br />
Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from generation to generation. I said:<br />
O Lord, have mercy on me; heal my soul, for I have sinned against Thee.<br />
Lord, unto Thee have I fled for refuge; teach me to do Thy will, for<br />
Thou art my God. .<br />
For in Thee is the fountain of life; in Thy light shall we see light.<br />
O continue Thy mercy unto them that know Thee.<br />
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us. (Thrice)<br />
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;<br />
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.<br />
Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.<br />
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(Then we chant with stronger voice:) <br />
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Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.<br />
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GOD is with us; know, ye nations, and be vanquished.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
Give ear, even unto the utmost part of the earth.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
Ye that have prevailed, even ye be vanquished.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
For though ye should prevail again, yet again shall ye be vanquished.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
And whatsoever counsel ye shall take, the Lord shall bring it to nought.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
And whatsoever word ye speak., it shall not abide in you.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
And the fear of you we shall not fear, neither shall we be troubled.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
But we will sanctify the Lord our God, and He shall be our fear.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
And I put my trust in Him, He shall be my sanctification.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
Yea, I will put my trust in Him, and I shall be saved through Him.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
Behold, I and the children which God hath given me.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
We that dwell in the land and shadow of death a light shall shine upon us.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
For unto us a Child is born; and unto us a Son is given.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
Whose government is come upon His shoulder.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
And of His peace there is no end.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
And His Name shall be called the Angel of Great Counsel.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
Wonderful Counselor.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
The mighty God, He that hath authority, the Prince of Peace.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
The Father of the age to come.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
Both now and ever, and unto the ages of ages. Amen.<br />
For God is with us.<br />
God is with us; know, ye nations, and be vanquished; for God is with us.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">"Now, Lord, unceasingly preserving in us the
spirit of your grace, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">make us worthy, so that being filled<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">we may minister to you in singleness of heart,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">praising you,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">through your Son Christ Jesus,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">through whom to you be glory and might,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">Father and Son<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">with the Holy Spirit,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">in your <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Holy</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></st1:place>,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">now and throughout the ages of the ages.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Baruch Adonai Yahweh Eloheinu Yahweh echad
El Olam Olam Immortal with and by the prayer and company of all your elect
doxas and saints, especially St. Michael and St. Gabriel and St. Enoch in the
flesh and St. Elijah in the flesh Your holy prophets yet to return, blessed St.
Joseph, The blessed virgin Mary mother of You Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and
Saviour, Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour the Only Mediator between God
and man in the flesh in the unity and power and bond of love of the Holy Spirit
our Paraclete, Most Holy Angel of Almighty counsel All Mighty Powerful Captain
of the hosts of the Lord going before us unto all salvation and sanctification
and deliverance and victory in everything at all times </span><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">+</span></u><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">your half
brothers and sisters in the flesh Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour, all
Your elect angels and saints for and with us unceasingly:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Greet one another with a kiss of love,
peace be to all who are in Christ Jesus Only Begotten Son Lamb of God Our
Only Lord and Saviour Living and Reigning with God Our Father in the unity and
power and bond of love of the Holy Spirit our Paraclete unto the endless ages
of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Baruch
Adonai Yahweh El Olam eth Abba<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Our
Father</span></b><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"> Who are in heaven,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">hallowed be your name,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">your kingdom come,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">your will be done<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">on earth as it is in heaven.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Your Holy Spirit come upon us and cleanse
us,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Give
us today our Supersubstantial infinitely pure and undefiled daily bread from
heaven Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and forgive us our debt Christ Jesus Our
Only Lord and Saviour to Whom alone we owe our debts Who alone forgives us, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">as in you Holy Spirit our Paraclete we
also forgive our debtors (those in Your body Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and
Saviour; we who hold you the Head directly), those who by simple direct
trespass are indebted to us,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and do not lead us into temptation,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">but deliver us from the evil one and all
it’s minions visible and invisible;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">for yours is the power and the glory unto
the endless ages of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We give you thanks, our Father,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">for the holy vine of David your servant,
which you have made known to us through Jesus, your servant;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">to you be the glory unto the endless ages
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We give you thanks, our Father,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">which you have made known to us through
Jesus; your servant;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">to you be the glory unto the endless ages
of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Just as this broken bread was scattered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">upon the mountains and then was<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">gathered together and became one,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">so may your church be gathered together <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">from the ends of the earth into your
kingdom;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">for yours is the glory and the power unto
the endless ages of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God the Father and the fellowship of the Holy
Spirit be with us all, now and for ever and through the ages! Amen.<br />
Lift up your hearts!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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To you, God of Abraham, of Isaac, of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Israel</st1:place></st1:country-region>, O King of glory! The
offering is made to God, the Lord of all things.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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- It is right and praiseworthy so to do.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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it is right that every tongue should glorify, every voice attest, every
creature venerate and celebrate the adorable and glorious name of the most Holy
Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who created the world in their loving
kindness and out of their goodness saved men and granted to mortals eternal
benefits. ‘<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Thousands upon thousands of heavenly spirits bless and adore you, myriads and
myriads of angels, their spirits on fire, sing to your name. With the cherubim
and seraphim, they glorify and adore your grandeur saying to each other as they
proclaim unceasingly: Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord of hosts; heaven and earth
are filled with his wonderful presence, with the splendour of his greatness.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hosanna in the highest, hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes
and who will come with heavenly power in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the
highest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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We affirm your presence, Lord, we, your servants, to whom you have made an
immense gift which we cannot possibly repay.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You clothed yourself with our humanity, you came down from heaven with your
divinity, you have raised up our littleness, lifted us from our prostration,
raised to new life our mortal flesh, pardoned our sins, condoned our debt; you
have brought light to our minds, vanquished our enemies, given honour to our
poverty. Lord, our God may our song meetly give glory, acknowledgement and
adoration to your superabundant grace, now and for ever and through all ages. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">The People:</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"> It is becoming and right.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Then the celebrant prays:</span> Verily it is becoming
and right, proper and due to praise Thee, to sing of Thee, to bless Thee, to
worship Thee, to glorify Thee, to give Thee thanks, Maker of every creature
visible and invisible, the treasure of eternal good things, the fountain of
life and immortality, God and Lord of all:<br />
Whom the heavens of heavens praise, and all the host of them; the sun, and the
moon, and all the choir of the stars; earth, sea, and all that is in them;
Jerusalem, the heavenly assembly, and church of the first-born that are written
in heaven; spirits of just men and of prophets; souls of martyrs and of
apostles; the six-winged seraphim, which cover their faces with two wings,
their feet with two, and with two they fly, crying one to another with
unresting lips and the many-eyed cherubim, kuriotetes, arches, especially St.
Michael and St. Gabriel, exousias, dunameis and angelos with unceasing praises:
Holy, holy, holy, O Lord God Pantocrator<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">(Aloud.)</span> With loud voice singing the victorious
hymn of Thy majestic glory, crying aloud, praising, shouting, and saying:-<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The People:</span> Holy, holy, holy, O Lord of Sabaoth,
the heaven and the earth are full of Thy glory. Hosanna in the highest; blessed
is He that cometh in the name of the Lord. Hosanna in the highest.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The celebrant, making the sign of the cross on the
gifts <b>+ </b>, says:</span> Holy art
Thou, King of eternity, and Lord and giver of all holiness; holy also Thy
only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom Thou hast made all things;
holy also Thy Holy Spirit, which searches all things, even Thy deep things, O
God: holy art Thou, almighty, all-powerful, good, dread, merciful, most
compassionate to Thy creatures; who didst make man from earth after Thine own
image and likeness; who didst give him the joy of paradise; and when he
transgressed Thy commandment, and fell away, didst not disregard nor desert
him, O Good One, but didst chasten him as at merciful father, call him by the
law, instruct him by the prophets; and afterwards didst send forth Thine
only-begotten Son Himself, our Lord Jesus Christ, into the world, that He by
His coming might renew and restore Thy image;<br />
Who, having descended from heaven, and become flesh of the Holy Spirit and
Virgin Godmother Mary, and having sojourned among men, fulfilled the
dispensation for the salvation of our race; and being about to endure His
voluntary and life-giving death by the cross, He the sinless for us the
sinners, in the night in which He was betrayed, nay, rather delivered Himself
up for the life and salvation of the world, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then the celebrant
holds the bread in his hand, and says:</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;">
Having taken the bread in His holy and pure and blameless and immortal hands,
lifting up His eyes to heaven, and showing it to Thee, His God and Father, He
gave thanks, and hallowed, and brake, and gave it to us, His disciples and
apostles, saying:-<br />
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<span style="color: red;">(here break the bread)<br />
</span><br />
<span style="color: red;">The Deacons say:</span> For the remission of sins and
life everlasting.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Then he says aloud: </span>Take, eat: this is my body,
broken for you, and given for remission of sins.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The People:</span> Amen.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Then he takes the cup, and says: </span>In like manner,
after supper, He took the cup, and having mixed wine and water, lifting up His
eyes to heaven, and presenting it to Thee, His God and Father, He gave thanks,
and hallowed and blessed it, and filled it with the Holy Spirit, and gave it to
us His disciples, saying, Drink ye all of it; this is my blood of the new
testament shed for you and many, and distributed for the remission of sins.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The People:</span> Amen.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The celebrant:</span> This do in remembrance of me; for
as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do show forth the Lord’s
death, and confess His resurrection, till He come.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The Deacons say:</span> We believe and confess:<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The People:</span> We show forth Thy death, O Lord, and
confess Thy resurrection.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The celebrant (Oblation): </span>Remembering,
therefore, His life-giving sufferings, His saving cross, His death and His
burial, and resurrection from the dead on the third day, and His ascension into
heaven, and sitting at the right hand of Thee, our God and Father, and His
second glorious and awful appearing, when He shall come again with glory to judge
the quick and the dead, and render to every one according to His works; even
we, sinful men, offer unto Thee, O Lord, this dread and bloodless sacrifice,
praying that Thou wilt not deal with us after our sins, nor reward us according
to our iniquities;<br />
But that Thou, according to Thy mercy and Thy unspeakable loving-kindness,
passing by and blotting out the handwriting against us Thy suppliants, wilt
grant to us Thy heavenly and eternal gifts (which eye hath not seen, and ear
hath not heard, and which have not entered into the heart of man) that thou
hast prepared, O God, for those who love Thee; and reject not, O loving Lord,
the people for my sake, or for my sin’s sake:<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Then he says, thrice:</span> For Thy people and Thy
Church supplicate Thee.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The People:</span> Have mercy on us, O Lord our God,
Father Almighty.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Again the celebrant says (Invocation):</span> Have
mercy upon us, O God Almighty. Have mercy upon us, O God our Saviour Jesus
Christ Our Lord. Have mercy upon us, O God, according to Thy great mercy, and
send forth on us, and on these offered gifts, Thy all-holy Spirit.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">Then, bowing his neck, he says:</span> The sovereign
and quickening Spirit, that sits upon the throne with Thee, our God and Father,
and with Thy only-begotten Son, reigning with Thee; the consubstantial and
co-eternal; that spoke in the law and in the prophets, and in Thy New
Testament; that descended in the form of a dove on our Lord Jesus Christ at the
river Jordan, and abode on Him; that descended on Thy apostles in the form of
tongues of fire in the upper room of the holy and glorious Zion on the day of
Pentecost: this Thine all-holy Spirit, send down, O Lord, upon us, and upon
these offered holy gifts;<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">And rising up, he says aloud:</span> That coming, by
His holy and good and glorious appearing, He may sanctify this bread, and make
it the holy body of Thy Christ.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The People:</span> Amen.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The celebrant:</span> And this cup the precious blood
of Thy Christ.<br />
<br />
<span style="color: red;">The People:</span> Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">LORD JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY SAVIOUR</span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">, AFTER THE EATING OF SUPPER, YOU TOOK BREAD AND HAVING GIVEN THANKS YOU BROKE IT AND SAID,</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> TAKE EAT, THIS IS MY,
THE BODY, THAT WHICH IS BROKEN, ON BEHALF OF YOU; THIS DO IN THIS MY</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">ANAMNESIN </span><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;">IN LIKE MANNER YOU
ALSO TOOK THE CUP AFTER THE EATING OF SUPPER SAYING</span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13.5pt;"> DRINK FROM IT ALL OF
YOU, THIS THE CUP THE NEW COVENANT IS IN THIS MY BLOOD WHICH IS BEING SHED FOR
MANY FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF SINS, THIS DO AS OFTEN AS YOU DRINK IN THIS MY
ANAMNESIN<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">COME<b> HOLY SPIRIT SANCTIFIER</b> BLESS THESE GIFTS MAKE</span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">
HIS</span></b><span style="color: #ffcc00; font-size: 13.5pt;"> REAL PRESENCE </span><b><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">JESUS
CHRIST</span></b><span style="color: #ffcc00; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">TRULY MANIFEST AGAIN </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">IN THE BREAD, THE WINE AND THE WATER WHOM
WE RECEIVE IN FAITH<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">THE BODY OF CHRIST THE BLOOD OF CHRIST<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We give you thanks, Holy Father, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">for your holy name which you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">have caused to dwell in our hearts,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and for the knowledge and faith and
immortality <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">which you have made known to us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">through Jesus your servant;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">to you be the glory unto the endless ages
of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">You, almighty Master, created all things
for your<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">name's
sake,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and gave food and drink to men, Adam and Eve, to enjoy,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">that they might give you thanks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">but to us, from the first Adam to the last Saint, you have
graciously given<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">spiritual food and drink,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and eternal life through your servant Christ Jesus Our Only Lord
and Saviour.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Above all we give thanks because you are
mighty<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">to you be the glory unto the endless ages
of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Remember your church Lord,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">to deliver it from all evil<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and to make it perfect in your love<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">and gather it, the one that has been
sanctified, </span><u><span style="color: red; font-size: 13.5pt;">+<o:p></o:p></span></u></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">from the four winds into your kingdom,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">which you have prepared for it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">for yours is the power and the glory unto
the endless ages of ages to come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">May grace come, and may this age pass
away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">Hosanna to the God of David.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">If anyone is holy, let him come;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">anyone is not, let him repent. Maranatha!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;">We give You thanks, Father, for the
fragrant ointment Your Holy Spirit our Paraclete which You have made known to
us through Jesus Your servant; to you be the glory unto the endless ages of
ages to come. Amen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284579948525535080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-25837783194750919572012-10-30T09:30:00.000-07:002012-11-02T20:36:18.953-07:00The Third Council of Carthage on the Canon of Scripture<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b>The canon of scripture of the Catholic Church.</b><br />
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<b>Of the Old Testament</b><br />
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Genesis<br />
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Exodus<br />
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Leviticus<br />
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Numbers<br />
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Deuteronomy<br />
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Joshua the son of Nun<br />
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Judges<br />
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Ruth<br />
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four books of Kings<br />
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two books of Paraleipomena<br />
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Job<br />
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the Psalter<br />
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five books of Solomon<br />
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the books of the twelve prophets<br />
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Isaiah<br />
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Jeremiah<br />
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Ezechiel<br />
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Daniel<br />
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Tobit<br />
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Judith<br />
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<i><a href="http://onlinecatholicbooks.blogspot.com/2012/10/traditional-catholic-prayers-palestine.html">Esther</a> falsely included and should not have been - by the ancient witness of St. Melito of Sardis it is emphatically not Christian scripture and is a first century B.C. - first century A.D. invention by the Apostate Jews. </i><br />
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<i><a href="http://onlinecatholicbooks.blogspot.com/2012/10/traditional-catholic-prayers-palestine.html">Esther</a></i></blockquote>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"St. Melito specifically and exactly excludes Esther as not being at all listed in, nor any part of Old Testament scripture. It actually dates absolutely NO earlier than first century B.C. with its real author, Lysimachus of Alexandria, as only non canonical Greek Apocrypha." </span> </blockquote>
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<i> </i><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; line-height: 18px;">"Furthermore St. Irenaeus, Martyr and Bishop and disciple of St. Polycarp, Martyr and Bishop who in turn was the disciple of St. John the last Apostle and Evangelist, records the scripture for us as does his, St. Irenaeus', disciple St. Hippolytus <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;">– </span>there is NO inclusion of Esther and as late as St. Athanasius of Egypt (early and mid fourth century A.D.), St. Athanasius sets apart "Esther" as NON canonical and of derivation from New Testament times, but no part of the New Testament, and no part of the Old Testament, in any way at all."</span></i></blockquote>
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two books of Esdras<br />
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two books of the Maccabees<br />
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<b>Of the New Testament: </b><br />
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four books of the Gospels<br />
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one book of the Acts of the Apostles<br />
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thirteen Epistles of the Apostle Paul in Greek<br />
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one epistle of the Apostle St. Paul to the Hebrews in Hebrew originally and translated by St. Luke into Greek<br />
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two Epistles of the Apostle Peter<br />
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three of John<br />
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one of James<br />
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one of Jude<br />
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one book of the Apocalypse of John<br />
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html">The Third Council of Carthage on the Canon of Scripture</a><br />
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Third Council of Carthage <small>(A.D. 397)</small>.</h1>
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Our primary source of information about the third council of Carthage, held in A.D. 397, is an ancient document known as the <i>Codex Canonum Ecclesiæ Africanæ</i>, which presents a compilation of ordinances enacted by various church councils in Carthage during the fourth and fifth centuries. Karl Joseph von Hefele, in his <i>History of the Councils of the Church,</i> <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note1" name="nota1" style="color: teal;">1</a></sup> states that this compilation was done in the year 419 by Dionysius Exiguus, who called it the <i>Statuta Concilii Africani</i>. Others have called it the "African Code." In one section of this code there is a record of the ordinances enacted at the third council of Carthage, in which the following paragraph concerning the canon of Scripture appears. <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note2" name="nota2" style="color: teal;">2</a></sup></div>
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<tr valign="top"><td style="padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 10pt; padding-right: 10pt; padding-top: 10pt; text-align: left;">Item placuit ut praeter Scripturas canonicas nihil in ecclesia legatur sub nomine divinarum Scripturarum. Sunt autem Canonicae Scripturae hae: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numeri, Deuteronomium, Jesus Naue, Judicum, Ruth, Regnorum libri quator, Paralipomenon libri duo, Job, Psalterium Davidicum, Salomonis libri quinque, libri duodecim prophetarum, Jesaias, Jeremias, Ezechiel, Daniel, Tobias, Judith, Esther, Esdrae libri duo, Machabaeorum libri duo. Novi autem Testamenti, evangeliorum libri quator, Actuum Apostolorum liber unus, Epistolae Pauli Apostoli xiii., ejusdem ad Hebraeos una, Petri apostoli duae, Johannes tres, Jacobi i., Judae i., Apocalipsis Johannis liber unus. Hoc etiam fratri et consacerdoti nostro Bonifatio, vel aliis earum partium Episcopis, pro confirmando isto canone innotescat, quia a patribus ista accepimus in ecclesia legenda. Liceat autem legi passiones martyrum cum anniversarii eorum dies celebrantur.</td><td class="eng" style="padding-bottom: 10pt; padding-left: 10pt; padding-right: 10pt; padding-top: 10pt; text-align: left;">It was also determined that besides the Canonical Scriptures nothing be read in the Church under the title of divine Scriptures. The Canonical Scriptures are these: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua the son of Nun, Judges, Ruth, four books of Kings, <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note3" name="nota3" style="color: teal;">3</a></sup> two books of Paraleipomena, <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note4" name="nota4" style="color: teal;">4</a></sup> Job, the Psalter, five books of Solomon, <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note5" name="nota5" style="color: teal;">5</a></sup> the books of the twelve prophets, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezechiel, Daniel, Tobit, Judith, Esther, two books of Esdras, <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note6" name="nota6" style="color: teal;">6</a></sup> two books of the Maccabees. Of the New Testament: four books of the Gospels, one book of the Acts of the Apostles, thirteen Epistles of the Apostle Paul, one epistle of the same [writer] to the Hebrews, two Epistles of the Apostle Peter, three of John, one of James, one of Jude, one book of the Apocalypse of John. Let this be made known also to our brother and fellow-priest Boniface, or to other bishops of those parts, for the purpose of confirming that Canon. because we have received from our fathers that those books must be read in the Church. Let it also be allowed that the Passions of Martyrs be read when their festivals are kept.</td></tr>
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Hefele maintains that this canon derives from an earlier council, convened in 393 at Hippo Regius, <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note7" name="nota7" style="color: teal;">7</a></sup> and that the third council of Carthage simply incorporated it, along with many other statutes of the earlier council.</div>
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However, the sentence "Let this be made known also to our brother and fellow-priest Boniface, or to other bishops of those parts, for the purpose of confirming that Canon" cannot belong to either of these councils. Westcott writes:</div>
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The third Council of Carthage was held in the year 397 <small>A.D.</small> in the pontificate of Siricus; and Boniface did not succeed to the Roman chair till the year 418 <small>A.D.</small>; so that the allusion to him is at first sight perplexing. Yet this anachronism admits of a reasonable solution. In the year 419 <small>A.D.</small>, after the confirmation of Boniface in the Roman epsicopate, the Canons of the African Church were collected and formed into one code. In the process of such a revision it was perfectly natural that some reference should be made to foreign churches on such a subject as the contents of Scripture, which were fixed by usage rather than by law. The marginal note which directed the inquiry was suffered to remain, probably because the plan was never carried out; and that which stood in the text of the general code was afterwards transferred to the text of the original Synod." <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note8" name="nota8" style="color: teal;">8</a></sup></div>
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In connection with this, it has been observed that at least one manuscript indicates that the original wording of the sentence was “De confirmando isto canone transmarina ecclesia consulatur” (“For the confirmation of this canon the church across the sea shall be consulted”). This is the reading adopted by Hefele for his reconstruction of the council of Hippo, and Westcott mentions it in a note. <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note9" name="nota9" style="color: teal;">9</a></sup> More recent authors tend to present the canon of the third council of Carthage with this emendation. <sup style="font-size: 13px; line-height: 0;"><a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#note10" name="nota10" style="color: teal;">10</a></sup></div>
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We also observe the peculiar manner in which the Epistle to the Hebrews is listed: “Epistolae Pauli Apostoli xiii., ejusdem ad Hebraeos una.” Here <i>ejusdem</i> looks like a later addition. In any case, the anachronism in the penultimate sentence shows that we do not have the canon in its original form here. The original canon has been edited by someone who has adapted it to churchly developments after 418 A.D. <b>Editor note:</b> that is a stray comment if there ever was any as the original Epistle of St. Paul to the Hebrews was in Hebrew and then translated by St. Luke into Greek and this title is a later Latin translation, almost certainly St. Jerome's (Palestine) as opposed to the North African Latin.</div>
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Books of the Apocrypha are named in this list: Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees; and the expression "five books of Solomon" implies the inclusion of the Wisdom of Solomon and Ecclesiasticus (Augustine, in his <i>City of God</i> and <i>On Christian Doctrine</i>, says that in addition to Proverbs, Song of Songs, and Ecclesiastes, the books of Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus are often ascribed to Solomon). Some have attributed the inclusion of these books to the influence of <a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/augustine.html" style="color: teal;">Augustine</a> in Hippo and Carthage, because in his writings he sometimes treats them as canonical. But the canon itself purports to give a list of books which were <i>traditionally</i> read in the African churches: “quia a patribus ista accepimus in ecclesia legenda.” <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Editor note: </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"><b>Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus</b> are included for the simple and correct reason that they were part of the Septuagint since the 3rd century B.C. and the whole New Testament is Septuagint Greek, especially all quotations by the inspired authors of the New Testament were from the Septuagint Greek text and not the Hebrew. From the very beginning of the Church the Septuagint has been received as the Old Testament Scripture and inspired by the Holy Spirit of God. The Septuagint Greek did not include the false book of Esther, which was originally written in Greek in the 1st century B.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">C. by Jews who were nationalistic and racist, violating Moses' Law, and then translated into Hebrew centuries later by the Massorete </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;">Jews who opposed the Church and especially Jesus Christ</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white;"> - St. Melito of Sardis speaks for the entire 1st/2nd century A.D. Church when he emphatically excludes </span><i><a href="http://onlinecatholicbooks.blogspot.com/2012/10/traditional-catholic-prayers-palestine.html">Esther</a> </i> from the canon of Scripture. It is apocryphal judaizing gnostic falsehood.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota1" name="note1" style="color: teal;">1.</a> Cf. the English edition, <i>A History of the Councils of the Church: From the Original Documents by Charles Joseph Hefele, translated from the German and edited by William R. Clark,</i> etc., vol. 2 (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 1876), p. 468.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota2" name="note2" style="color: teal;">2.</a> The Latin text and English translation are from B.F. Westcott, <i>A General Survey of the History of the Canon of the New Testament</i> (5th ed. Edinburgh, 1881), pp. 440, 541-2.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota3" name="note3" style="color: teal;">3.</a> "four books of Kings" = First and Second Samuel and First and Second Kings.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota4" name="note4" style="color: teal;">4.</a> "Paraleipomena" = Chronicles.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota5" name="note5" style="color: teal;">5.</a> "five books of Solomon." According to Augustine, five books were sometimes ascribed to Solomon: Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Wisdom of Solomon, and Ecclesiasticus.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota6" name="note6" style="color: teal;">6.</a> "two books of Esdras" = Ezra and Nehemiah.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota7" name="note7" style="color: teal;">7.</a> Hefele, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 394.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota8" name="note8" style="color: teal;">8.</a> Westcott, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 440.</div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota9" name="note9" style="color: teal;">9.</a> Hefele, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 400; Westcott, <i>op. cit.</i>, p. 542, note 4. Westcott cites a note in Mansi's <i>Sacrorum Conciliorum Nova et Amplissima Collectio</i>, which attributes it to "quidam vetustus codex" (a certain ancient codex).</div>
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<a href="http://www.bible-researcher.com/carthage.html#nota10" name="note10" style="color: teal;">10.</a> Bruce Metzger, <i>The Canon of the New Testament</i> (Oxford, 1987), p. 315.</div>
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<b><a href="http://1amendmentcont.blogspot.com/2012/04/melito-of-sardis-roberts-donaldson.html">St. Melito</a></b> of Sardis 170 A.D. St. Melito was a Christian Bishop much venerated and heeded by the early church who verified the Old Testament (that term starts with him and his use of it) canon of scripture in Caesarea Maritima in Palestine. St. Melito specifically and exactly excludes Esther as not being at all listed in, nor any part of Old Testament scripture. It actually dates absolutely NO earlier than first century B.C. with its real author, Lysimachus of Alexandria, as only non canonical Greek Apocrypha. The original NEVER mentions God at all; the "Jews" are gods of that false book. The correct Septuagint translation of Old Testament scripture from Hebrew into Greek was done a century before that and emphatically does not include "Esther" or anything like it at all. The Massoretes incorporated the false "Hebrew" edition they concocted five centuries later into their Massoretic "Hebrew" text (5th to 9th century A.D. in its composition) which is full of their corruptions throughout as well. That is unfortunately where St. Jerome was led astray to include it in his translation work in 384 - 405 A.D.</div>
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The false book of Esther was incorporated into the New Testament erroneously by St. Jerome in his translation work in 384 - 405 A.D. and not before. It should never have been incorporated at all since it is not only uninspired but Satanic and utterly damned by God forevermore.</div>
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Melito, bishop of Sardis, of Asia Minor 170 A.D. preserved the Old Testament canon of scripture. His list is exactly the original Septuagint order of books and contains the Old Testament protocanonicals and absolutely excludes the Book of Esther. Nehemiah is included in Esdras and Lamentations is included within Jeremiah. That is not the ordering of the modern "Hebrew" bible since the modern "Hebrew" tradition of the ordering of the books of the Old Testament Bible is a Massoretic lie and invention to obfuscate and deceive Gentiles.</div>
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Furthermore St. Irenaeus, Martyr and Bishop and disciple of St. Polycarp, Martyr and Bishop who in turn was the disciple of St. John the last Apostle and Evangelist, records the scripture for us as does his, St. Irenaeus', disciple St. Hippolytus <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">– </span>there is NO inclusion of Esther and as late as St. Athanasius of Egypt (early and mid fourth century A.D.), St. Athanasius sets apart "Esther" as NON canonical and of derivation from New Testament times, but no part of the New Testament, and no part of the Old Testament, in any way at all.</div>
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Church of Sardis <b><a href="http://theapocalypsethebookoftherevelation.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post_4838.html">Rev. 3</a></b></div>
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One of the Synagogues of Satan, this one in Sardis. It is anathema - cursed by God forever.</div>
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18th century A.D. German Jewish Demon scroll (Israel Museum - who says "Israel" doesn't have idolatry?! - this is rife with idolatry and conjuring of devils and demons) of Esther the mother goddess of paganism (Astarte, Artemis, Isis, Mene, with threads of Hecate the ultimate Greek witch and Lilith throughout etc.) incorporated into the first century B.C. "Judaism" (Haburah, Naasseni, Pharisee as a Devil's avatar to worship Satan thereby and murder as many people as they can imagine - hence the myth they concocted of Purim and murdering Persians and drinking Haman the Persian's blood and eating his body parts in cannibalism and the 75,000 Persians they pretended to have murdered in Satanic joyful glee; that of course presages what they intend to do to Iran today). Notice the Necromancer Sorcerer Witch rebbi at the top left pointing with his Sorcerers wand at the astrological sign of Pisces, which is the month of Adar wherein is Purim, the feast of Lots. The center part is the Esther Purim text. Top right is the cannibal blood drinking feast. It is hidden from gentiles usually, but actual human blood is advertised, even upon the internet, but secretly, for Jews to use in "celebrating" Purim.</div>
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Jameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11284579948525535080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5027364147569167261.post-83759911911064201272012-10-29T09:10:00.001-07:002012-11-02T20:36:18.966-07:00The Justice of God: Matthew 24 - As in the days of Noah<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://1law-order-and-justice.blogspot.com/2012/10/matthew-24-as-in-days-of-noah.html">The Justice of God: Matthew 24 - As in the days of Noah</a><br />
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<b>The Abomination of Desolation occurred at Vatican II. The Vatican is utterly Apostate and the Novus Ordo is the Abomination of Desolation. The final form of the Abomination of Desolation </b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>will be the institution of the final Abomination in the Rebuilt Temple of Remphan in Jerusalem</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 15.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <b><i>The abomination of desolation</i> </b>was first partly fulfilled by divers profanations of the temple, as when the image of Cæsar was set up in the temple by Pilate, and Adrian's statue in the holy of holies, and when the sacrifices were taken away; but will be more <b>completely fulfilled by Antichrist and his precursors, when they shall</b> attempt to<b> abolish the holy sacrifice of the mass</b>. S. Hyppolitus, in his treatise <i>de Anti-Christo,</i> mentioned by Eusebius, S. Jerom, and Photius, thus writeth: "The churches shall lament with great lamentations, because there shall neither be made oblations, nor incense, nor worship grateful to God. . . In those days the liturgy (or mass) shall be neglected, the psalmody shall cease, the reciting of Scripture shall not be heard." — The prophet Daniel (xii. 11.) calculates the reign of Antichrist, <i>from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away;</i> <b>[which will be the institution of the final Abomination in the Rebuilt Temple of Remphan in Jerusalem] </b>which, by able commentators, is understood of the <b>sacrifice of the mass [this first by the full consensus of the Church Fathers and then the final Abomination in the Rebuilt Temple of Remphan in Jerusalem]</b>, which Antichrist will endeavour to suppress. — <i>The abomination of desolation,</i>[2] or the abominable desolation. Instead of these words, we read in S. Luke, (xxi. 20.) <i>When you shall see Jerusalem surrounded by an army.</i> Christ said both the one and the other. But the words in S. Luke, seem rather to give us a sign of the ruin of Jerusalem, than of the end of the world. — <i>Spoken of by Daniel, the prophet.</i> The sense is, when you shall see that very prophecy of Daniel literally fulfilled hereafter. What follows in the prophecy of Daniel, confirms this exposition; when the prophet adds, that the <i>desolation shall continue to the end;</i> that the Jews from that time, shall be <i>no more the people of God, for denying their Messias;</i> and that they shall <i>put the Christ to death.</i> But what then was this desolation, which by the following verse, was to be a sign to the Christians to <i>fly out of Judea?</i> Some expound it of the heathen Roman army, approaching and investing Jerusalem, called the <i>holy city.</i> Others understand the profanation of the temple, made by the Jews themselves, a little before the siege under Vespasian; when the civil dissensions, those called the <i>Zealots,</i> had possessed themselves of the temple, and placed their warlike engines upon the pinnacles; and a part, at least, of the temple was defiled with the dead bodies of those killed there. It was at that time that the Christians, according to Christ's admonition, left Jerusalem and Judea, and fled to Pella, beyond the river Jordan. See Euseb. l. iii. Hist. c. v. Wi.</span></blockquote>
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At the destruction of <st1:city w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city> by the Roman general Titus in A.D. 70, only the leader of the Pharisees Rabbi Jochanan ben Zacchai escaped by his cowardly act of murder and deception after already having incited the Jews to the second worst act of rebellion against God by actually cursing God in God’s own temple. The first worst act of rebellion was to commit the double crime of Deicide murdering God’s own Messiah Jesus Christ and <a href="http://123sayyidah-parousia.blogspot.com/search/label/Great%20Tribulation%20will%20occur%20because%20of%20the%20Jews%27%20Perfidy">Perfidy</a> never repenting of that <a href="http://marknamenumber.blogspot.com/search/label/Deicide">Deicide</a>. While setting the rest of the Jews at each other he faked his own death and secretly arranged to be and was so removed alive from the city during the siege that destroyed the temple and the city of <st1:city w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:city>.</div>
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Jochanan ben Zacchai then asked for and received the sponsorship and help of the Roman Emperor Vespasian and with that then reorganized the Satanic Priesthood of the <a dir="ltr" href="http://123sayyidah-parousia.blogspot.com/search/label/Naasseni">Naasseni</a> (the Babylonian sect of the Jews which were the Haburah the serpent worshippers), i.e the Pharisees’ Sanhedrin, in Jamnia (Yavneh).</div>
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His successor, Rabbi Gamaliel (II), circa 90 A.D., continued the curses against Christ and the Christians made in the temple by the Jew Satan Worshippers, the <a href="http://123sayyidah-parousia.blogspot.com/search/label/pre-Christian%20Gnostic%20Naasseni">Naasseni</a>. This was originally just before the destruction of the temple by the Roman General Titus. This was the "curse against the <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://traditional-catholic-prayers.blogspot.com/search/label/no%E1%BA%93erim%20and%20the%20minim">noẓerim and the minim</a></span>" (Christ and the Christians) added to the <a href="http://1law-order-and-justice.blogspot.com/search/label/18%20temple%20benedictions">Eighteen Temple Benedictions</a> then. This was the <a href="http://123sayyidah-parousia.blogspot.com/search/label/Abomination%20of%20Desolation">abomination of desolation</a> that Jesus Christ warned about in Matthew 24. It has been recited at every "authorized" synagogue since then – ALL OF THESE SYNAGOUES ARE THE <a href="http://1law-order-and-justice.blogspot.com/search/label/Synagogue%20of%20Satan">SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN</a>. EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM IS THE <a href="http://123sayyidah-parousia.blogspot.com/search/label/Abomination%20of%20Desolation">ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION</a>.</div>
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At Jamnia the Satanic cult of Pharisee Rebbis led by Rabbi Gamaliel (II), supposedly on the authority of the first Gamaliel who taught Saul and interceded for the Christians decades earlier, spouted the wide mouth frog vitriol and claimed to close the canon of Scripture against (the so called by Jamnia only) “apocryphal books” which were in fact the real Old Testament Canon of Scripture of the Biblical original Hebrew text and the Septuagint text which was faithful to that, and also against the New Covenant (New Testament) Scriptures which were the Gospels and the Book of the Acts and the Epistles and the Book of the Revelation all of which proclaimed the Truth that Jesus is the Immortal Son of God and the Messiah of God in the flesh confessed by Jew and Gentile Christian alike.</div>
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At the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 A.D. God’s judgment fell on the bloody and Satanic Jews, which the Christians escaped, having been prophetically forewarned by Christ to flee the abomination of the desolation and did so and fled to Pella directly East of the Jordan in the Decapolis area before it occurred.</div>
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The Christians flourished while the judgment of God came upon the Jews which just increased the furor of the always bloody and perfidious and demonically hardened of heart Jews clinging to their crime of Deicide hoping to secure favor from Satan (the Naas of <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">the </span><a dir="ltr" href="http://traditional-catholic-prayers.blogspot.com/search/label/Naasseni">Naasseni</a> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> </span>which was the Satanic Jews’ Priesthood of Babylon, the Jews Haburah, from the 6th century B.C. and was called the sect of the Pharisees at the time of <a href="http://123sayyidah-parousia.blogspot.com/search/label/Crucifixion%20is%20established%20directly%20in%20the%20Psalms">Our Only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and which persecuted Him unto death</a> – but <a href="http://traditional-catholic-prayers.blogspot.com/search/label/Cross%20and%20Resurrection%20-%20Eucharist">He rose again</a>.</div>
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<b>Another Satanic Hoax of the Apostate Jews.<o:p></o:p></b></div>
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2005 Announcement anticipating their bloody stunts to fake the coming of the Apostate Jews’ false messiah which is in actuality the Antichrist, the Dajjal, the Yiddish ha maschiah. It was supposed to all have happened by 2007 (2008 at latest) since that was 40 years from the Jews bloody invasion of the Noble Sanctuary in 1967, these are part of the prophetically forewarned wars of the Antichrist. Biblically, forty years is a “generation.” That false timeline of the Jews had been geared for that forty year period to gain the support of the Apostate Christian Zionist sect of damned heretics – it has led to the Anglo-American support of the Antichrist’s wars against God and God’s people, Christian and Muslim alike in the <st1:place w:st="on">Middle East</st1:place> and around the world. God will judge <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">America</st1:country> and <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">England</st1:country> without mercy for the complete merciless actions of the <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">United States</st1:country> and <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">Great Britain</st1:country>. False Antichrist Israel Gog and Magog of the Zionist Jews is destined ONLY for everlasting perdition in hellfire with Satan their ruler forever.</div>
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<a href="http://www.nfc.co.il/archive/001-D-84163-00.html?tag=7-41-45">Senior Sephardi Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri</a></div>
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Rabbi Yitzhak Kaduri - "With the help of G- d [Kaduri means the Devil, belial, Satan, Iblis], the soul of the Mashiach [Kaduri means a demon or even Satan himself] has attached itself to a person in <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">Israel</st1:country>." See Note 1 at the bottom.</div>
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“ba” in Graeco Egptian Pagan Necromantic Sorcery is the soul of a human being, the nephesh or psuche. “ka” is a demon from Satan, or in the worst form of Satanic possession is a fallen angel or even Satan himself.</div>
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The following is the power source of the Jews and Judaism, known as “superforce” in the Apostate Vatican and is the core of Freemasonry (including especially in Washington D.C. politics all of which are owned by the Freemasonic influence) and is the central Diabolic preternatural presence in Mormonism and the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the rest of all of the Diabolic cults in the world.</div>
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That is the pagan Graeco Egyptian destruction of the “immaculate children” by ripping their entrails out to secure the demon (the “ka”) supposedly attached to the young infant’s soul (the “ba”) this is the most horrid necromantic sorcery performed by murdering children (any of these three young babies-children: preborn ripped from the mother’s womb, or just after birth, or a young child). This is the core of the Jews’ blood murder of children down through the ages and the Jews’ (Alan Guttmacher and the rest of the Jews who perpetrated abortion of Gentiles) foisting upon the world the abomination of abortion. This was the core of the cults that worshipped Satan by murder blood sacrifice in the ancient world. Included are the cults of Moloch and Chemosh in the Levant and Melkart of Carthage (Hercules of Greek pagan religion) and the rest stretching from the ancient world into the 6<sup>th</sup> century A.D. in the Mediterranean and continued to the present by Jews’ in secrecy (the so called blood libel – it is no libel, it is all true). </div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">MATTHEW 24<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Christ foretells the destruction of the temple: with the signs that shall come before it, and before the last judgment. We must always watch.</span></i><b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">1 And *Jesus being come out of the temple went away. And his disciples came to shew him the buildings of the temple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">2 And he answering, said to them: Do you see all these things? Amen, I say to you, *there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone that shall not be thrown down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">3 And as he was sitting on Mount Olivet, the disciples came to him privately, saying: Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the consummation of the world?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">4 And Jesus answering, said to them: *Take heed that no man seduce you:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">5 For many will come in my name saying, I am Christ: and they will seduce many.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">6 And you shall hear of wars, and rumours of wars. See that ye be not troubled. For these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">9 *Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall put you to death: and you shall be hated by all nations for my name's sake.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">10 And then shall many be scandalized, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall seduce many.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">12 And because iniquity hath abounded, the charity of many shall grow cold.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">13 But he that shall persevere to the end, he shall be saved.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world, for a testimony to all nations, and then shall the consummation come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">15 *When therefore, you shall see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of by **Daniel, the prophet, standing in the holy place: he that readeth let him understand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">17 And let him that is on the house top, not come down to take any thing out of his house:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">18 And let him that is in the field, not go back to take his coat.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">21 For there shall be then great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, neither shall be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">22 And unless those days had been shortened, no flesh should be saved: but for the sake of the elect, those days shall be shortened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">23 *Then if any man shall say to you: Lo, here is Christ, or there: do not believe him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders, insomuch as to deceive (if it were possible) even the elect.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">25 Behold, I have told it to you before hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">26 If therefore, they shall say to you: Behold he is in the desert: go ye not out: Behold <i>he is</i> in the closets, believe it not.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and appeareth, even unto the west: so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">28 *Wheresoever the body shall be, there shall the eagles also be gathered together.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">29 *And immediately after the <a href="http://marknamenumber.blogspot.com/search/label/Great%20Tribulation">tribulation</a> of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be moved:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn: *and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with great power and majesty.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">33 So also you, when you shall see all these things, know that it is near, <i>even </i>at the doors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">34 Amen, I say to you, this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">35 *Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">39 And they knew not till the flood came, and took them all away: so also shall the coming of the Son of man be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">40 Then shall two be in the field: the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">42 Watch ye, therefore, because you know not at what hour your Lord will come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">44 Wherefore be ye also ready, because at what hour you know not, the Son of man will come.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11.5pt;">24: Matthew xxiv. 5, 11.; Dt. xiii. 1.; Apoc. xix. 20.; II Th. ii. 9.</span><span style="color: black; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt;">29: Isai. xiii. 10.; Acts ii. 20.; Apoc. vi. 12,13.; Is. xxxiv. 4.; Ezech. xxxii. 7.; Joel ii. 10.; Joel iii. 15.; Mark xiii. 24.; Luke xxi. 25.; <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 1.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> After the fatigues of preaching and teaching, Jesus towards evening left the temple, as it is in the Greek, </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">eporeueto apo tou ierou</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, and went towards Mount Olivet, where he was accustomed to spend his nights, as we learn from S. Luke, c. xxi. v. penult. Jans. — <i>His disciples came to shew him the buildings,</i> not moved by curiosity, for they had seen them frequently before, but by pity; because he had on a former occasion, and only just before in Jerusalem, threatened the destruction of the temple and city, hoping that the splendour and magnificence of so fine a structure, consecrated to God, might alter his determination, as S. Hilarius observes. But the anger of God, provoked by sins, is not to be appeased with stones and buildings. He therefore answered them: (Jans.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 2.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Do you see all these things?</i> Examine again and again all this magnificence, that the sentence of heaven may appear more striking. — <i>A stone upon a stone.</i> We need not look on this as an hyperbole. The temple burnt by the Romans, and afterwards even ploughed up. See Greg. Naz. orat. ii. cont. Julianum, Theodoret l. iii. Histor. c. xx. &c. Wi. — Julian the apostate, wishing to falsify the predictions of Daniel and of Jesus Christ, attempted to rebuild the temple. For this purpose, he assembled the chief among the Jews, and asking them why they neglected the prescribed sacrifices, was answered, that they could not offer any where else but in the temple of Jerusalem. Upon this he ordered them to repair to Jerusalem, to rebuild their temple, and restore their ancient worship, promising them his concurrence in carrying on the work. This filled the Jews with inexpressible joy. Hence flocking to Jerusalem, they began with scorn and triumph to insult over the Christians. Contributions came in from all parts. The Jewish women stripped themselves of their most costly ornaments. The emperor opened his treasures to furnish every thing necessary for the building. The most able workmen were convened from all parts; persons of the greatest distinction were appointed to direct the work; and the emperor's friend, Alipius, was set over the whole, with orders to carry on the work without ceasing, and to spare no expense. All materials were laid in to an immense quantity. The Jews of both sexes bore a share in the labour; the women helping to dig the ground, and carry away the rubbish in their aprons and gowns. It is even said that the Jews appointed some pick-axes, spades, and baskets, to be made of silver, for the honour of the work. Till this time the foundations and some ruins of the walls had remained, as appears from S. Cyril, in his catechism xv. n. 15. and Euseb. Dem. Evang. l. viii. p. 406. These ruins the Jews first demolished with their own hands, thus concurring to the accomplishment of our Saviour's prediction. They next began to dig a new foundation, in which many thousands were employed. But what they had thrown up in the day, was, by repeated earthquakes, the night following cast back again into the trench. When Alipius the next day was earnestly pressing on the work, with the assistance of the governor of the province, there issued, says Ammianus Marcellinus, such horrible balls of fire out of the earth near the foundations, as to render the place inaccessible from time to time to the scorched workmen. And the victorious element continuing in this manner obstinately bent, as it were, to drive them to a distance, Alipius, thought proper to abandon, though reluctantly, the enterprise. This great event happened in the beginning of the year 363, and with many very astonishing circumstances is recorded both by Jews and Christians. See the proofs and a much fuller account of this astonishing event, which all the ancient fathers describe as indubitable, in Alban Butler's life of S. Cyril of Jerusalem, March 18th. Thus they so completely destroyed whatever remained of the ancient temple, that there was not left one stone upon another; nor were they permitted by heaven even to begin the new one. Maldonatus.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 4.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>And Jesus answering.</i> Various are the interpretations given here. Some will have it refer to the destruction of Jerusalem, which took place, A.D. 70; and others, to the <a href="http://123sayyidah-parousia.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Irenaeus%20on%20the%20end%20of%20this%20age.%20St.%20Irenaeus%20Against%20Heresies">end of the world</a>. That of S. Chrys. seems to be very conformable to the context, and is followed by many. He explains all, to the 23d verse exclusively, of what shall precede the destruction of Jerusalem; nor is there any circumstance which cannot easily be referred to that event, as will appear from a careful and attentive observation of the history of the Jews, and of the Church at that time, in the writings of Josephus and Eusebius. Even the preaching of the gospel to the whole world, which seems to favour the contrary explanation, is by the same father said to have taken place before the destruction of Jerusalem. S. Paul tells the Colossians, that even in his time the faith was spread all over the world. The abomination of desolation may be explained of the Roman soldiery, or, of the seditious zealots, who, by their murders and other atrocities, polluted the temple. See Josephus, b. 4. and 5. of the Jewish war. As deicide was a crime peculiar to the Jews and exceeded every other crime, their punishment was severe above measure. Had the Almighty punished them to the full of what they had deserved, not one of the Jews would have escaped. But as he formerly would have spared Sodom and Gomorrha, had there been found therein ten just men to avert the impending ruin; so shall these days of affliction be shortened for the sake of some who believe. The verses subsequent to the 22d, are explained by S. Chrys. of the second coming of Christ, previous to the general judgment. Jans. — Such as wish for a more particular explanation of every thing preceding the 23d verse, how it applies to the Jews, may consult the concordance of Jansenius, who thus concludes his observations: "Hitherto we have explained all things of the destruction of Jerusalem, which prophecies, though they principally regarded the times of the apostles, may be of use to us in two ways. 1. It will confirm our faith, when we see clearly fulfilled whatever was distinctly foretold of this people; and may serve to increase our fears, when we reflect, that what is immediately added concerning the day of judgment, shall be fulfilled with the same rigorous exactitude and certainty. It is another effect of divine Providence for the increase of our faith, that this prophecy, which was to take place with regard to Jerusalem, is not mentioned by S. John, who lived long enough to see it accomplished, but by the other evangelists, who died long before the event. 2. It should animate us in the practice of virtue, and gratitude to reflect, that whatever tribulations happen to the Church, or throughout the earth, all co-operate to the advantage of the elect. Such as will be good, have nothing to fear." Jans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 7.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>And there shall be,</i> according to the proverb, </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">loimoV meta limon</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, plague after famine, both natural daughters of war, with intestine divisions, earthquakes, and other calamities; the <i>third</i> sign. . . . As the bodies of men generally grow weak and faint previously to dissolution, so will it be with the earth before the destruction of the world; so that this inferior globe will be shaken with unusual convulsions, as if making its last effort for existence. The air filled with destructive vapours will turn to the ruin of men, and the earth exhausted of its natural fertility, will refuse its accustomed support to the sons of Adam. Hence will arise wars and famines, insurrections, rebellions, and mobs; some driven on by famine and want, others by ambition and avarice. But if the corrupted heart of man shall refuse to depart from its evil ways, these calamities shall be increased; for all these are only the beginnings of more dreadful sorrows. Origen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">The last chapter of the Apocalypse, which is the last communication of the divine will to man, is deserving our frequent and very attentive perusal. In it Jesus Christ, by his repeated warnings, wishes to awaken us to a sense of that day of general retribution, saying: <i>surely I come quickly: behold I come quickly: and my reward is with me, to render to every man according to his works.</i> (Behold the merit of good works proceeding from faith and charity.) With what earnestness have the servants of God, in every age, prayed with S. John: (ibid) <i>Come, Lord Jesus; come,</i> put a final end to the reign of sin and Satan; come, admit thy elect, who have been purified in the waters of the great persecution, and in the blood of the Lamb, to thy heavenly bosom; to that happy sanctuary and asylum, where no hunger or thirst, no scorching heat of the sun, no fiery temptation will any more reach or molest them; where the sigh and the groan will not be heard; where all tears will be wiped away from every eye, and where they will be inebriated at the torrent of immortal delights, and will see and enjoy the Lord Jesus, without any apprehension of offending him, for ever and ever. A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 14.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>This gospel . . . shall be preached in the whole world,</i> to serve as a testimony to all nations, of the solicitude of heaven in having the doctrine of salvation announced to them. This then is a <i>fifth sign,</i> and not till then shall the consummation come. — <i>And then shall the consummation come.</i> The end of the world, says S. Jerom. The destruction of Jerusalem, says S. Chrys. and others. Wi. — If the final destruction of Jerusalem be here meant, the gospel had been preached throughout the major part of the then known world. See Rom. x. and Colos. i. 6, 23. If the end of the world, there is the greatest probability that the true faith will have been announced to every part of the globe, before that period.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 15.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>The abomination of desolation</i> was first partly fulfilled by divers profanations of the temple, as when the image of Cæsar was set up in the temple by Pilate, and Adrian's statue in the holy of holies, and when the sacrifices were taken away; but will be more completely fulfilled by Antichrist and his precursors, when they shall attempt to abolish the holy sacrifice of the mass. S. Hyppolitus, in his treatise <i>de Anti-Christo,</i> mentioned by Eusebius, S. Jerom, and Photius, thus writeth: "The churches shall lament with great lamentations, because there shall neither be made oblations, nor incense, nor worship grateful to God. . . In those days the liturgy (or mass) shall be neglected, the psalmody shall cease, the reciting of Scripture shall not be heard." — The prophet Daniel (xii. 11.) calculates the reign of Antichrist, <i>from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away;</i> which, by able commentators, is understood of the sacrifice of the mass, which Antichrist will endeavour to suppress. — <i>The abomination of desolation,</i>[2] or the abominable desolation. Instead of these words, we read in S. Luke, (xxi. 20.) <i>When you shall see Jerusalem surrounded by an army.</i> Christ said both the one and the other. But the words in S. Luke, seem rather to give us a sign of the ruin of Jerusalem, than of the end of the world. — <i>Spoken of by Daniel, the prophet.</i> The sense is, when you shall see that very prophecy of Daniel literally fulfilled hereafter. What follows in the prophecy of Daniel, confirms this exposition; when the prophet adds, that the <i>desolation shall continue to the end;</i> that the Jews from that time, shall be <i>no more the people of God, for denying their Messias;</i> and that they shall <i>put the Christ to death.</i> But what then was this desolation, which by the following verse, was to be a sign to the Christians to <i>fly out of Judea?</i> Some expound it of the heathen Roman army, approaching and investing Jerusalem, called the <i>holy city.</i> Others understand the profanation of the temple, made by the Jews themselves, a little before the siege under Vespasian; when the civil dissensions, those called the <i>Zealots,</i> had possessed themselves of the temple, and placed their warlike engines upon the pinnacles; and a part, at least, of the temple was defiled with the dead bodies of those killed there. It was at that time that the Christians, according to Christ's admonition, left Jerusalem and Judea, and fled to Pella, beyond the river Jordan. See Euseb. l. iii. Hist. c. v. Wi.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 23.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Lo, here is Christ.</i> These words are very aptly applied by Catholics to the conventicles of heretics; and would Christians attend to the injunctions of their divine Master,<i> Go ye not out:</i><b>—</b><i>believe it not,</i> we should not see the miserable confusion occasioned in the Catholic Church [which, </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">the Catholic Church,</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> is not defined by "Rome" but by adherence to apostolic doctrine], by unsteady Christians; who are guilty of schism, in forsaking the one true fold, and one shepherd, to follow their blind and unauthorized leaders (typologically this </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">refers</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> to Gnostics and Judaizing heretics or those which blaspheme God with false doctrines such as Freemasonry and its embrace of Satan.). E. MOST ESPECIALLY we are warned here not to have anything to do with the false shepherd(s) who will come at the end nor any with them nor those who follow them - see here: Concerning the false prophets and the False Prophet, i.e. the primary ones and the False Prophet himself, Huchede quotes the conclusion in accord with the full consensus of the Church Fathers, </span><a href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/2006/05/rev-paschal-huchede-view-of-antichrist_8509.html">The Antichrist - Chapter 2 - ARTICLE II - 2.His Apostles</a><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> "...he will not be a king, nor a general of an army, but a clever apostate, fallen from the episcopal dignity. From being an apostle of the Gospel he will become the first preacher of the false messiah." These are the current Antipopes since 1958 (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI), and all of the episcopal leaders with them (Episcopus meaning Bishop, especially the Bishops [Antipopes] of Rome fallen from the faith).</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 28.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Wheresoever the body,</i>[3] &c. This seems to have been a proverb or common saying among the Jews. Several of the ancient interpreters, by this <i>body,</i> understand Christ himself, who died for us; and they tell us, that at his second coming the angels and saints, like eagles, with incredible swiftness, will join him at the place of judgment. Wi. — When he shall come to judgment, all, as it were by a natural instinct, shall fly to meet him, and receive their judgment. S. Hilary understands this literally; that where his body shall hang upon the cross, there will he appear in judgment, i.e. near the valley of Josaphat; in which place the prophet Joel (c. iii. v. 2,) declares, that the general judgment shall take place. T.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 30.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>The sign of the Son of man,</i> &c. The Fathers generally expound this of the cross of Christ, that shall be seen in the air. Wi. — This sign is the cross, much more resplendent than the sun itself. Therefore the sun hides its diminished head, whilst the cross appears in glory; because the great standard of the cross, excels in brightness all the refulgent rays that dart from the meridian sun. S. Chrys. hom. lxxvii. — The Jews, looking upon him whom they had pierced, now coming in the clouds of heaven with power and exceedingly great glory, shall have great lamentations. Bitterly will they weep over their misery, in having despised and insulted <i>him</i> on a cross, who ought to have been the object of their veneration, adoration, and love. S. Chrys. hom. lxxvii.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 34.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>This generation;</i> i.e. the nation of the Jews shall not cease to exist, until all these things shall be accomplished: thus we see the nation of the Jews still continue, and will certainly continue to the end of the world. T. — Then the cross, which has been a scandal to the Jew, and a stumbling-block to the Gentile, shall appear in the heavens, for the consolation of the good Christian. Hoc signum crucis erit in cœlo, cum Dominus ad judicandum venerit. — If it be to be understood of the destruction of Jerusalem, the sense may be, this race of men now living; if of the last day of judgment, this generation of the faithful, saith Theophylactus,[4] shall be continued: i.e. the Church of Christ, to the end of the world. Wi. — This race, I tell you in very truth, shall not pass away till all this be finally accomplished in the ruin of Jerusalem, the most express figure of the destruction and end of the world. V. — By <i>generation,</i> our Saviour does not mean the people that were in existence at that time, but the faithful of his Church; thus says the psalmist: <i>this is the generation of them that seek the Lord.</i> Ps. xxiii, v. 6. S. Chrys. hom. lxxvii. The final destruction of <a href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/Jerusalem%20Capital%20of%20Antichrist%27s%20empire">Jerusalem</a> shall come at the end of the age when Jerusalem shall have become the center of Antichrist's short lived empire; then shall Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ at His Second Coming raise and judge all men in the flesh here on earth at the general judgment of all men by the just judge, the Lord Jesus Christ.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 36.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>No man knoweth . . . but the Father alone.</i> The words in S. Mark (xiii. 32.) are still harder: <i>neither the angels, nor the Son, but the Father.</i> The Arians objected this place, to shew that Christ being ignorant of the day of judgment, could not be truly God. By the same words, <i>no one knoweth, but the Father alone,</i> (as they expound them) the Holy Ghost must be excluded from being the true God. In answer to this difficulty, when it is said, <i>but the Father alone,</i> it is certain that the eternal Son and the Holy Ghost could never be ignorant of the day of judgment: because, as they are one and the same God, so they must hove one and the same nature, the same substance, wisdom, knowledge, and all absolute perfections. 2. It is also certain that Jesus Christ knew the day of judgment, and all things to come, by a knowledge which he could not but have, because of the union by which his human nature was united to the divine person and nature. See Colos. ii. 3. And so to attribute any ignorance to Christ, was the error of those heretics called <i>Agnoitai.</i> 3. But though Christ, as a man, knew the day of judgment, yet this knowledge was not due to him <i>as he was man,</i> or <i>because he was man,</i> but he only knew the day of judgment, because he was God as well as man. 4. It is the common answer of the fathers, that Christ here speaks to his disciples, only as he was the ambassador of his Father; and so he is only to know what he is to make known to men. He is said not to know, says S. Aug.[5], what he will not make others know, or what he will not reveal to them. Wi. — By this Jesus Christ wished to suppress the curiosity of his disciples. In the same manner after his resurrection, he answered the same question: <i>'Tis not for you to know the times and the moments, which the Father has placed in his own power.</i> This last clause is added, that the apostles might not be discouraged and think their divine Master esteemed them unworthy of knowing these things. Some Greek MSS. add <i>nor even the Son,</i> as in Mark xiii. 32. The Son is ignorant of it, not according to his divinity, nor even according to his humanity hypostatically united to his divinity, but according to his humanity, considered as separate from his divinity. V.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 37-38.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>And as it was.</i> The same shall take place at the coming of the Son of man at the last day, as at the general deluge. For, as then they indulged their appetites, unmindful of the fate that was attending them, </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">gamounteV kai ekgamizonteV</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">, marrying and given in marriage, solely occupied with the concerns of this life, and indifferent to those of the next; so shall it be at the end of the world. They are not here accused of gross sins, but of a supine security of their salvation, as is evident from what follows. Jans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 39.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>And they</i> thought not of the deluge, though preached and predicted by Noe, (which rendered their ignorance and incredulity inexcusable) till it came and swept them all away. So shall it be at the coming of the Son of man. S. Luke adds, (c. xvii, v. 28,) <i>likewise as it was in the days of Lot; </i>they shall be eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building, i.e. totally immersed in worldly pursuits. Hence the apostle; <i>when they shall say peace,</i> viz. from past evils, <i>and security,</i> viz. from future, <i>then shall destruction come upon them on a sudden.</i> But some one may ask, how can there possibly be all this peace, all this security, when the evils mentioned above, famines, wars, plagues, earthquakes, and particularly the darkness of the sun, &c. &c. are presages calculated to strike with panic and consternation minds the most thoughtless and giddy? I answer, that the wicked are chiefly designed here, who in the midst of the afflictions and alarms of the good, will still indulge in their pleasures and luxuries, like cruel soldiers, whilst the peaceable inhabitants are plundered. S. Jerom adds, that the world for some time before its final dissolution, will be freed from all those calamities. As to what is said (v. 29,) of the darkness of the sun and moon, these are circumstances that refer to the very coming of the judge. Jans.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 40.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> Then of two men, who shall think of nothing less than of going to appear before God, one shall be taken to be placed among the number of the elect, and the other shall be left condemned to eternal fire with the damned, on account of his crimes. V. — This example of the men in the field, and of the condition and disposition of men at the period of the deluge, strongly expresses how unexpectedly these evils will rush in upon mankind; and the subsequent account of the two women grinding in the mill, shews how little they were solicitous for their salvation. We are, moreover, taught by these examples, that some of all states and conditions will be saved, whether rich or poor, in ease or labour, or decorated with all the various degrees of worldly honour. The same is mentioned in Exodus, c. xi, v. 5. <i>From the first-born of Pharao, who sitteth on his throne, even to the first-born of the handmaid that is at the mill, . . . every first-born shall die.</i> S. Chrys. hom. lxxviii.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Ver. 42.</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Watch ye, therefore.</i> That men might not be attentive for a time only, but preserve a continual vigilance, the Almighty conceals from them the hour of their dissolution: they ought therefore to be ever expecting it, and ever watchful. But to the eternal infamy of Christians be it said, much more diligence is used by the worldly wise for the preservation of their wealth, than by the former for the salvation of their immortal souls. Though they are fully aware that the Lord will come, and like a thief in the night, when they least expect him, they do not persevere watching, nor guard against irreparable misfortune of quitting the present life without previous preparation. Therefore will the day come to the destruction of such as are reposed in sleep. S. Chrys. hom. lxxviii. on S. Mat. — Of what importance is it then that we should be found watching, and properly attentive to the one thing necessary, the salvation of our immortal souls. For what will it avail us, if we have gained the whole world, which we must then leave, and lose our immortal souls, which, owing to our supine neglect to these admonitions of Jesus Christ, must suffer in hell-flames for all eternity? A.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt;">[2] V. 15. Abominationem desolationis. </span><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 11pt;">Bdelugma thV erhmwsewV</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. The same words are in the Sept. Dan. ix. See S. Jerom on this place, and S. Chrys. hom. lxxvi. and lxxvii. in Matt.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Am%C2%ADbrose" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Ambrose</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Augustine" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Augustine</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Chrysostom" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Chrysostom</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Gregory" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Gregory</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Hilary" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Hilary</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Hippolytus" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Hippolytus</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Irenaeus" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Irenaeus</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Isidore" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Isidore</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Jerome" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Jerome</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20John" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. John</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20John%20Chrysostom" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. John Chrysostom</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Michael" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Michael</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Paul" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Paul</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Peter" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Peter</a> </li>
<li style="border-bottom-style: none; border-color: initial; border-left-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-top-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); border-top-style: none; border-width: initial; color: black; margin-bottom: 0.25em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; text-indent: 0px;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theantichristhuchede.blogspot.com/search/label/St.%20Peter%20and%20St.%20Paul" style="color: #005ed5; text-decoration: none;">St. Peter and St. Paul</a> </li>
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