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Footnotes to
"Consecrated Way"
page 91
"The bishops now (the latter
part of the second century) wished to be thought to
correspond with the high priest of the Jews; the presbyters
were said to come in place of the priests; and the deacons
were made parallel with the Levites.
"In like manner the comparison
of the Christian oblations with the Jewish victims and
sacrifices produced many unnecessary rites, and by decrees
corrupted the very doctrine of the holy Supper; which was
converted, sooner, in fact, than one would think, into a
sacrifice." - Mosheims Ecclesiastical History, Cent.
II, part II, chap. II, par. 4; and chap. IV, par. 4.
"Every passage was seized on
where submission to the powers that be is enjoined, every
instance cited where obedience had actually been rendered to
the imperial officials; special emphasis being laid on the
sanction which Christ Himself had given to Roman dominion by
pacifying the world through Augustus, by being born at the
time of the taxing, by paying tribute to Caesar, by saying to
Pilate, 'Thou couldst have no power at all against Me
except it were given thee from above'" - Bryce. Return
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