The Great Controversy - Righteousness is Love

539DAMNABLE HERESY WHO INVENTED A NEW TRANSLATION OFTHE SCRIPTURES IN HIS MOTHER TONGUE."THE OPPOSITION TO THE BIBLE BY THE ROMAN CATHOLICCHURCH HAS CONTINUED THROUGH THE CENTURIES AND WASINCREASED PARTICULARLY AT THE TIME OF THE FOUNDINGOF BIBLE SOCIETIES. ON DECEMBER 8, 1866, POPE PIUS IX, INHIS ENCYCLICAL QUANTA CURA, ISSUED A SYLLABUS OFEIGHTY ERRORS UNDER TEN DIFFERENT HEADINGS. UNDERHEADING IV WE FIND LISTED: "SOCIALISM, COMMUNISM,CLANDESTINE SOCIETIES, BIBLE SOCIETIES. . . . PESTS OF THISSORT MUST BE DESTROYED BY ALL POSSIBLE MEANS."ORIGINAL TEXT PAGE 276. THE REIGN OF TERROR.--FOR ARELIABLE, BRIEF INTRODUCTION INTO THE HISTORY OF THEFRENCH REVOLUTION SEE L. GERSHOY, THE FRENCHREVOLUTION (1932); G. LEFEBVRE, THE COMING OF THE FRENCHREVOLUTION (PRINCETON, 1947); AND H. VON SYBEL, HISTORYOF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (1869), 4 VOLS.THE MONITEUR OFFICIEL WAS THE GOVERNMENT PAPER ATTHE TIME OF THE REVOLUTION AND IS A PRIMARY SOURCE,CONTAINING A FACTUAL ACCOUNT OF ACTIONS TAKEN BYTHE ASSEMBLIES, FULL TEXTS OF THE DOCUMENTS, ETC. ITHAS BEEN REPRINTED. SEE ALSO A. AULARD, CHRISTIANITY ANDTHE FRENCH REVOLUTION (LONDON, 1927), IN WHICH THEACCOUNT IS CARRIED THROUGH 1802--AN EXCELLENT STUDY;W. H. JERVIS, THE GALLICAN CHURCH AND THE REVOLUTION(LONDON, 1882), A CAREFUL WORK BY AN ANGLICAN, BUTSHOWS PREFERENCE FOR CATHOLICISM.ON THE RELATION OF CHURCH AND STATE IN FRANCE DURINGTHE FRENCH REVOLUTION SEE HENRY H. WALSH, THECONCORDATE OF 1801: A STUDY OF NATIONALISM IN RELATIONTO CHURCH AND STATE (NEW YORK, 1933); CHARLES LEDRE,L'ENGLISE DE FRANCE SOULS LA REVOLUTION (PARIS, 1949).SOME CONTEMPORARY STUDIES ON THE RELIGIOUSSIGNIFICANCE OF THE REVOLUTION ARE G. CHAIS DESOURCESOL, LE LIVRE DES MANIFESTES (AVIGNON, 1800), IN