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The Holy Scripture - english version B.indd - Sabbat

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330Pre-Reformation Interpreters.Who were Your sheep, and in their ancient foldSlain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolledMother with infant down the rocks. <strong>The</strong>ir moans<strong>The</strong> vales redoubled to the hills, and theyTo heaven. <strong>The</strong>ir martyred blood and ashes sowO‘er all the Italian fields, where still does sway<strong>The</strong> triple tyrant; that from these may growA hundredfold, who, having learned Your way,Early my fly the Babylonian woe.“<strong>The</strong> persecuted Waldenses were students of prophecy from the oldest times.How did they interpret the prophecies concerning „Babylon“ and the „man ofsin“? Here in this book of Leger‘s is their Treatise on Antichrist, writtenin the year 1120, or nearly 800 years ago. It is written in a language now extinct;Leger gives a French translation in parallel columns (here it is at p. 71). In simple,telling terms that treatise brands the Romish Church as the harlotBabylon, and the Papacy as the „man of sin“ and antichrist. Thatwas the faith and confession of the Waldenses.Extract from the Waldensian Treatise on Antichrist, dated A.D. 1120 (Histoire Généraledes Églises Evangéliques des Vallées de Piémont, ou Vaudoises, par Jean Leger, A.D.1669, p. 71, etc.).„ANTICHRIST. ... Ma meseima lafalseta, pausa contra la verità quilli sequebre, e se orna de belleza, e de pieta, defora de la Gleisa de Christ, enaima de Christ,enaima de Nom, de Officies, de Scripturas,e de Sacramèns, e de motas autras cosas.La iniquita d‘aquesta maniera com li seoMinistre majors, e menors, com li seguèntley de maluàs cor e cec, aital congregationensemp presa ès appelà ANTICHRIST, oBABYLONIA, o QUARTA BESTIA, OMERETRIX, o HOME DE PECCÀ, Filli deperdition.„Li seos Ministres son-appella FALSPROPHETAS, Maistres mesongers,Ministres de tenebras, Sperit d‘error,MERETRIX APOCALYPTICA, mairede fornication, niolas senza aigua, arbresauctomnals, morts & arancàs per doasvez, undas del crudel mar, stellas errans,Balaamitiens, e Gissiptiens.„El es dit Anitchrist empercò ca cuberte orna sot specie de Christ, e de la Gleisa,e de li seo fidel membre, contraria à la salùfaita per Christ, e aministrà veramènt en laGleisa de Christ.“„L‘ANTICHRIST. ... Maisc‘est lafausseté même opposée à la verité, quise couvre et s‘orne de beauté, et de pieté,hors de l‘Eglise de Christ, comme desNoms, des Offices, des Ecritures, et desSacremens, et de plusieurs autres choses:l‘iniquité laquelle est de cette maniere,avoc tous ces Ministres grans et petis, avectous ceux qui les ensuivent de mauvaiscœur, et aveugle, telle congregation priseensemble est appelée ANTICHRIST, ouBABYLONE, ou QUATRIÈME BÊTE,ou PAILLARE, ou HOMME DE PECHÉ,FILS DE PERDITION.„Ses Ministres sont appelez FAUXPROPHETES, Maîtres meusongers,Ministres de tenebres, Esprit d‘erreur,PAILLARDE APOCALYPTIQUE, Merede fornication, nuées sans eau, arbresautomnals morts et arrachez par deux fois,ondes de la cruelle mer, étoiles errantes,Balaamites et Egyptiens.„Il est dit Antichrist, pour ce quecouvert et orné de la Livre de Christ, etde son Eglise, et de ses fideles membres,il contrarie au salut fait par Christ,et administré vrayemant en l‘Eglise deChrist.“

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