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101 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 215.5 (General Conference of SDA)
… of Pontifex Maximus, while others, refusing it themselves, appointed a pagan priest, until the reign of Gratian, who, refusing to do either, abolished the office …
102 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 326.10 (General Conference of SDA)
… a pontifex maximus, or sovereign pontiff? So has popery; and it stamps this very name, which is purely heathen in origin, upon the coins, medals, and documents …
103 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 387.7 (General Conference of SDA)
… ] Christianorum Pontifex, [4] summus sacerdos, [5] Princeps sacerdotum, [6] Vicarius Christi, [7] Caput corporis Ecclesia, [8] Fundamentum adificii Ecclesia, [9] Pastor …
104 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 387.10 (General Conference of SDA)
… , puta pontifex, certum est quod possit errare, etiam in iis quae tangunt fidem, haresim per suam determinationem aut decretalem asserendo. Plures enim fuerunt …
105 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 391.1 (General Conference of SDA)
… Pope, “Pontifex Maximus,” is entirely pagan. In all pagan countries, Babylon, Egypt, Rome, Peru, etc., the king or emperor was the chief priest, or Pontifex Maximus …
106 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 391.6 (General Conference of SDA)
… of Pontifex Maximus, and the orders, offices, sacerdotal dresses, symbols, doctrines, sorceries, and idolatries of the priesthood of Rome directly derived …
107 Source Book for Bible Students, p. 537.7 (General Conference of SDA)
… of Pontifex Maximus, was only adding the day of the sun, the worship of which was then firmly established in the Roman Empire, to the other ferial days of the …
108 In Defense of the Faith, p. 172.3 (William Henry Branson)
… of Pontifex Maximus, was only adding the day of the sun, the worship of which was then firmly established in the Roman Empire, to the other festival days of the …
109 Facts of Faith
… as Pontifex Maximus, was only adding the day of the sun, the worship of which was then firmly established in the Roman Empire, to the other ferial days of the …
110 Facts of Faith, p. 112.7 (Christian Edwardson)
… of pontifex maximus, or high-priest of the heathen hierarchy. His coins bore on the one side the letters of the name of Christ, on the other the figure of the sun …
111 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 71.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the Pontifex Maximus, and was about to enter upon his conquests in Gaul and Britain. Then the storm broke over Jerusalem for the second time within the century …
112 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 261.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… “the Pontifex Maximums ”—a term then referring only to the pagan chief priesthood, which was held by the Roman emperors at this time. He likewise challenged …
113 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 398.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
So the Roman church pushed its way into the place of the Roman Empire, and the pope, the Pontifex Maximus, became Caesar’s successor. Adolf Harnack, What Is Christianity? pp. 269, 270
114 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 398.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Pontifex Maximus, which had been discarded by the emperor Gratian, and through the centuries made himself the imperator of the church. The offices and …
115 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 411.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Pontifex Maxtmus. (See Johann J. Ignatz von Dollinger, A History of the Church, vol. 2, p. 4.)
116 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 417.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Pontifex Maximus. The Arian empress Justina, mother of Valentinian 2, in attempting to introduce Arian worship, tried to terrify him by show of armed force …
117 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 502.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Pontifex Maximus) and Valentinian 2, in 378 or 379. This edict, probably issued at the request of a Roman synod, not only confirmed Damasus (d. 384) as bishop of …
118 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 649.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , not Pontifex, but ‘pompifex’ and ‘pulpifex’; and the holy Roman church, the council of vanity, and the church of malignants; and he did not fear to call, by speech and …
119 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 799.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… of Pontifex Maximus, we discern, unless we are blind, a most savage wolf, with the garment of a shepherd; the Roman priests [flamines] have arms against all Christians …
120 The Prophetic Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 2, p. 557.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… title Pontifex Maximus from pagan to Christian Roman emperors, and thence to its assumption by papal pontiffs, are matters of metallic record. Moreover …