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50181 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 333.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… the spiritual head. To the Western world Rome was still the political capital-hence the whole habit of mind, all ambition, pride, and sense of glory, and every …

50182 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 334.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… great spiritual and temporal tribunal. In short, the whole of Western Christendom formed, in a certain sense, a kingdom, at whose head stood the Pope and the …

50183 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 336.4 (General Conference of SDA)

… and spiritual affairs. He was the defender of Christianity, the church, and the clergy in all respects. He was the supreme censor of morals in Christendom and …

50184 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 337.1 (General Conference of SDA)

… of spiritual power, and that of temporal power. It was the noon of the Papacy; but the noon of the Papacy was the midnight of the world.—“ The History of Protestantism …

50185 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 338.3 (General Conference of SDA)

… and spiritual power; the next representative Pope is a Borgia. In no other place than Rome could a Borgia have arisen; in no other position than that of Pope …

50186 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 340.3 (General Conference of SDA)

… a spiritual person to occupy the place once held by a political sovereign; the claims of one who felt the strength of his position, who, having been left to himself …

50187 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 341.1 (General Conference of SDA)

… the spiritual head, and back to the temporal head again. For, in the Holy Empire, religion and politics were ever combined. At one time the religious power is …

50188 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 341.3 (General Conference of SDA)

… . The spiritual power is continually rising in importance, and founds the empire.

50189 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 341.4 (General Conference of SDA)

… a spiritual autocrat, ruling the church absolutely, and through the church ruling the empire. That rule brings him into collision with the emperor. A struggle …

50190 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 342.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… a spiritual kind, is invariably intoxicating and demoralizing to any mortal man who possesses it. God Almighty alone can bear it, and even he allows freedom …

50191 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 343.4 (General Conference of SDA)

… of spiritual principles and give to it a theocratic character and aim, which links his name with the mightiest moral movements of the world; and when I speak …

50192 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 344.1 (General Conference of SDA)

… of spiritual tyranny in order to control the minds and consciences of men. It took several centuries to develop this system, after Leo was dead. With him it …

50193 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 348.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… his spiritual character, but as a great landowner. He did what he could to provide for the defense of the country, and he took it on himself to negotiate a peace …

50194 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 350.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… the spiritual power is vastly above the secular. In the beginning of his pontificate, indeed, he spoke of the two powers as being like the two eyes in the human …

50195 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 351.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… the spiritual and the secular powers to the sun and moon respectively which I have mentioned in connection with Gregory VII was elaborated and developed …

50196 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 354.1 (General Conference of SDA)

… other spiritual; that the temporal sword was to be used for the church, the spiritual by the church; and concluding by the assertion that for every human being …

50197 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 358.1 (General Conference of SDA)

… a spiritual power within the limits of the Roman Empire, Mr. Faber argues, I think rightly, when he says, that the giving the saints into the hand of the Papacy …

50198 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 379.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… to spiritual things and in the nature of man as to temporals, so that he is not simply a man, but rather a God on earth. These extravagances are perpetuated to …

50199 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 381.2 (General Conference of SDA)

… in spiritual and in temporal things.”

50200 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 382.4 (General Conference of SDA)

… , a spiritual and a temporal, and this we are taught by the words of the gospel; for when the apostles said, ‘Behold, here are two swords’ (in the church, namely, since …