Christ and Antichrist - Or Jesus of Nazareth Proved to Be the Messiah and the Papacy Proved to Be the Antichrist Predicted in the Holy Scriptures #255149

Rescued from their visible idolatry, the next device of the great apostate was to obscure and corrupt those living oracles of God, by which Israel was to be governed. The synagogue has now taken the place of the grove, and the Rabbi that of the prophet of Baal. The word of God is now the professed object of study. Learned men are raised up, and schools of biblical literature are established. But inquiries are pursued beyond the testimony of God, and tra dition is made the interpreter of Scripture. Soon, this tradition is exalted into an authority equal, or even superior to that of the written word; while the strange spectacle is exhibited, of a people, with the law of God in their hands, yet following the doctrines and commandments of men. It was at this period, the great Deliverer appeared.