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| + | Papa are o autoritate și putere atât de mare încât poate să modifice, să explice și să interpreteze legea divină. Papa poate lucra câteodată împotriva legii divine |
| − | pope is of so great authority and power that he ean
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| − | inedify, declare or interpret the divine law. The pope
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| − | ean sometimes counteraet the divine law by limiting,
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| − | explaining, ete.’’
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| − | 8 Jehovah foreknew the selfish exaltation of the
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| − | hypocritical clei gv crowd, and particularly the Roman
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| − | Catholie Ilierarchy, and therefore he caused his
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| − | prophet to write: ‘‘The pride of thine heart hath de-
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| − | ceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the
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| − | rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart,
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| − | Vho shall bring me down to the ground??’—Ohad. 3,
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| − | ® The proud man becomes se Rmpressed with his own
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| − | greatness and importance that he is blind to every-
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| − | thing clse, and therefore deceives himself, Continuing
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| − | to follow in that course he is eertain to fall. ‘‘Pride
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| − | cocth before destruction, and an haughty spirit be-
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| − | fore a fall.’’? (Prov. 16:18) Price quickly leads one to
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| − | the commission of presumptueas sins, which are a
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| − | shame before God and all who leve righteousness. ‘Te
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| − | that is void of wisdom despiscth his neighbour; but a
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| − | man of understanding holdceth his peace.’? (Prov.
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| − | J1:12) The Edomites perched high up in the rocks,
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| − | reearded themselves as of supreme importance, and
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| − | looked with contempt upon others. Likewise the clergy
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| − | of the Hierarchy and their allies have perched them-
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| − | relves high up amongst mun, have deported theinselves
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| − | in an arrogant and proud manner, and regarded thein-
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| − | selves as far superior to the common herd, The Ro-
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| − | man Catholic Therarchy then ealls gullible and trust-
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| − | ful people who support and keep up their wicked or-
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| − | ganization “the Catholic poputation’’, and cumpels
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| − | thrse poor people to confess to the wicked priests all
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| − | their weaknesses so that the priests can extract money
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| − | from the people and thus take advantage of them. The
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| − | foman Catholie Hierarchy is eruel and = scornful,
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| − | proud and severe. They reeeive their support and
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| − | maintenance from the common people, whom they have
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| − | ceccvived and made believe that the clergy are the rep-
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| − | resentatives of the Lord and that the Hicrarchy is a
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| − | divine organization. In order to further deccive the | |
| − | people those of the Hierarchy call themselves ‘‘fa-
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| − | ther’, and all the Catholics other than the Hierarchy
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| − | are ealled the ‘‘ehildren of the ehureh’’, All the chil-
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| − | dren these roosters have are illegitimate, because they
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| − | make the rule themselves that they must not marry,
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| − | manifestly not wishing to be confined to one particular
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| − | family. The clergy erowd are far removed from the
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| − | Great Rock, Jehovah God, and his Chicf Stone, the
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| − | JJcad and Foundation Stone, and Captain of his or-
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| − | ganization, who is Christ Jesus. If they were in fact
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| − | following in the footsteps of the Lord, and truly rep-
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| − | resenting him, they would not show partiality amon¢e
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| − | men, but would remember thai the Lord God and
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| − | Christ Jesus are no respecters of persons, and would
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| − | do likewise. Such men have no fear of God. They
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| − | jeynore his plain word which is addressed to all who
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| − | claim to serve him: ‘Wherefore now, Iet the fear of
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| − | the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it; for there
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| − | She WATCIITGOWER
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| − | is no iniguitv with the Lord our (ied, nar. respect of
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| − | persons. nor taking of gifts.’’ (2 Chron. 19:7) These
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| − | hypocritieal clergy push the puor on the side, make
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| − | them confess to wicked priests by speaking to them
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| − | through a hole in some cage or box, inside of which
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| − | the priest is conecaled. If a man of riches or influence
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| − | comes to confess he is given much more consideration
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| − | and in proportion to the amount he contributes
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| − | through the hole in the box. Such is a practice par-
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| − | ticularly in the church at Vatiean City ealled ‘‘St.
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| − | Peter’s’’. It is a common thing to see poor, wretched
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| − | people kneeling on the flagstones in that building,
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| − | dropping their coins thiougn the hole and whispering
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| − | in the cars of a priest inside the box. That such prac-
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| − | tice is despicable in the sight of God is shown by this
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| − | declaration m his Word: *‘For if there come unto
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| − | your assembly a man with a gold rme, in goodly ap-
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| − | parel, and there come in also a poor man in vile rai-
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| − | ment; and ye have respect to him that weareth the
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| − | gay clothing, and say unte him, Sit thou here in a good
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| − | place; and say to the poor, Stand thou there, or sit
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| − | here under my footstuol; are ye not then partial in
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| − | yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts ?
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| − | But if ye have respeet to per-ons, ve comuiuit sin, and
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| − | are convineed of the law as transercssors.’’—das,
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| − | 2:29,
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| − | 20 The Protestant clergy of modern times follow in
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| − | the Icad of the Hierarchy. These scriptures apply to
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| − | all who have agreed to do the will of God or who are
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| − | in an implicd covenant to do his will by reason of
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| − | their clauns, and certainly that ineludes the clerey
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| − | who have assumed and ¢laim to be the representatives
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| − | of Cod, An exaetly contrary course is taken by the
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| − | men who love God, as it is written: “The Lord is my
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| − | rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my
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| − | strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the
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| − | horn of my salvation, and my hich tower.’’? (Bs. 18:2)
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| − | “From the end of the carth will T ery unto thee, when
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| − | my heart is overwhelmed; lead me to the roek that 3s
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| − | higher than [.’? (Ps. 61:2) The faithful followers of
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| − | Christ Jesus trust in Jehovah, the Great Roek, and in
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| − | his beloved Son, the Foundation Stone of his organi-
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| − | zation,
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| − | But the clergy, the antitypical Edomites, boast
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| − | of their superiority and the strength of their organi-
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| − | zation. They make the worldly governments their
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| − | “yoek’’, They clamber up into the high political
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| − | places and participate in the councils of those who
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| − | rule under the power of the invisible vod of this world,
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| − | Satan the Devil. Those elergymen have hecome skill-
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| − | ful riders of the beast because the Roman Catholie
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| − | Hierarchy, and the other elerey allied with her, falsely
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| − | claim to represent God and Christ and at the same
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| − | time openly and deliberately alien themselves with
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| − | the commercial traftickers and professional pohticions
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| − | and use their power to oppress and defiand the people
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| − | who support them. God designates that hypocritical
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| − | orgenization as ‘‘the whore’, (Rev. 17: 3-15) Relying
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