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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 434
take liberty with it, and hence she forbids any private person to attempt to
translate it into the common language without authority from ecclesiastical
superiors and also forbids the faithful to read any editions but such as are
approved by the bishops.
1392
So as you see not only did the Catholic Church persecute believers and “cast the truth to
the ground” but it now defends its actions and implies that it would do it again if it had the
opportunity. The period of time it was able to accomplish this was 1,260 years exactly just as
Daniel prophesied. The reign of the papacy began in 538 when the power of the Ostrogoths was
broken and ended 1,260 years later in 1798 when “Napoleon’s general Berthier, took the Pope
captive.”
1393
The Papacy fulfilled this prophecy perfectly and there is no other power in history
that comes even close.
The purpose of this discussion was to make a point regarding the true word of God and
by no means is it intended to degrade Catholics. The point is this, God said his faithful would be
persecuted and his truth cast to the ground. Therefore, in accordance with God’s word we see
that it was the Received Text that the Catholic Church sought to destroy. According to Graham
they still hate it and forbid their members to read it. On the other hand the text that the Catholic
Church preserved and promotes is the Alexandrian Text.
Despite the efforts of the Catholic Church to destroy the Received Text, they were unable
and God’s word was preserved just as he promised. No less than four versions that preceded the
Catholic Church’s Vaticanus have survived and more than thirteen were created in the languages
of the people during her tyranny. God's holy word truly “liveth and abideth for ever”; it does
“not pass away”; and it has been preserved forever and from one generation to another.
1394
Although there are four versions that preceded the Catholic Churches Vaticanus and
seven, which were translated before the end of the fifth century, the Catholic Church insists that
hers was the first Bible. The Catholic Church seems to insist that the Peshitto, Italic, Gallic,
Gothic, Old Syriac, Armenian and Palestinian Syriac versions of the Bible, which relied upon
and agree with the Received Text, do not exist. There are nearly 1,800 or more manuscripts of
these seven versions and only one copy of Vaticanus. Graham writes:
The absurdity is magnified when it is remembered that the Protestants did
not appropriate the whole of the Catholic books, but actually cast out some from
the collection, took what remained, and elevated these into a new “canon” or
volume of Sacred Scripture, such as had never been seen or heard of before,
from the first to the sixteenth century, in any church, either in heaven above or
on earth beneath, or in the waters under the earth! Let us Make this charge…. the
Bible of the Catholic Church (which was the only volume of God’s Scripture ever
known on earth)
1395
These are out and out lies. The Catholic Church also ignores the fact that their oldest
copy of the Bible, Vaticanus, “omits all off Genesis 1:1 - 46:28, all of Psalms 105:26-137:6, and
parts of 1 Samuel, I Kings and Nehemiah.”
1396
The Peshitto, Italic, Gallic, Gothic, Old Syriac,
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