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Show ERROR CONTINUES Nothing New Under the Sun Old Errors in New Clothing. At the coming of Christ there were many sects amongt he Jews who had, because of pride and novel nov-el doctrines, departed from the truth. And such a condition has existed in all time and countries. The Pharisees constituted the largest number of any 'Hebrew schism.. They possessed the most influence with the people owing to the profound knowledge of the law which they claimed. The Sadducees were also a strong sect who denied the immortality of the soul and the existence of angels. In our own times we have the same conditions, proving that there is nothing new under the sun. Today we have a numerous body of people called Unitarians who deny the Lord that purchased them with His divine blood. This schism was first propagated in Poland, whither it had penetrated contemporaneously with the heresies of Luther and Calvin. They originally believed that the damned were annihilated and that there was no original sin. They also maintained that Christ was not God. What they believe today no man can safely assert. Their "ministers" differ and teach any old doctrine doc-trine they individually conceive, so we take the liberty of writing an account of the death of Christ and substituting for the Roman soldiers and unbelieving un-believing Jews the present day Unitarians. "What they will believe a year hence is difficult to predict except that it will be a dogma of negation. Then, therefore, Pilate, the Unitarian king, took Jesus and scourged Him. And the Unitarians platting a crown of thorns, put it upon His head; and. they put on Him a purple garment. And they came to Him and said: "Hail King of the Jews." And they gave Him blows. Pilate, the king of the Unitarians, therefore went forth again, and saith to the Unitarians: "Behold, I bring Him forth unto you, that you may know I find no fault in him." Jesus therefore came forth, bearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. And He saith to the Unitarians: "Behold the Man." When tho chief preachers of the Unitarians and their followers follow-ers had seen Him. they cried out, saying : "Cruvify Him, crucify Him." Pilate, the Unitarian king, said to them: "Take Him you and crucify Him. For I find no cause in Him." The Unitarians answered him: "We have a law; and according to the law He ought to die, because He made Himself the Son of God." When the Unitarian king therefore heard this saying, he feared the more. And he entered into the hall again, and he said to Jesus Christ: "Whence art Thou?" But Jesus jrave him no answer. Pilate therefore saith to Him : "Speakest thou not to me? Knowest thou not that I have power to crucify thee, and I have power to release thee?" The Savior answered: "Thou shouldst not have any power against Me, unless it were given thee from above. Therefore, he that hath delivered me to thee, hath the greater sin." And from henceforth hence-forth Pilate sought to release Him. But the Unitarians Uni-tarians cried out, saying: "If thou release thi3 man, thou art not Caesar's friend. For whosoever maketh himself a king, speaketh against Caesar." Now when the Unitarian and tyrannical Pilate had heard these words, he brought Jesus forth and sat down in the judgment seat, in the place that is called Lithostrotos, and in Hebrew Gabbatha. And it was the parasceve of the pasch, about the sixth hour, and he saith to the Unitarians: "Behold your king." But they cried out: "Away with Him; crucify Him." Pilate saith to them: "Shall I crucify your king?" The chief Unitarian preachers preach-ers answered: "We have no king but Caesar." Then therefore he delivered Him to them to be crucified. And they took the Savior and led Him forth. And bearing His cross. He went forth to that place which is called Calvary, but in Hebrew Golgotha, where they crucified Him, and with Him two others, ocs on each side, and Jesus in the midst. And Pilate, the king of the Unitarians, wrote a title also, and he put it upon the cross. And the writing was: "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews." This title therefore many of the Jewish Unitarians Uni-tarians did read ; because the place where Jesus was crucified was nigh to the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Greek and in Latin. Then the Jewish Jew-ish Unitarian preachers said to Pilate: "Write not, the King of the Jews;" but that He said I am the King of the Jews. Pilate answered : "What I have written, I have written." The Unitarians therefore, when they had crucified cru-cified Him, took His garments and they made four parts, to every crucifier a part, and also His coat. Now the coat was without seam, woven from the top throughout. They said then one to another: "Let us not cut it, but let us cast lots for it, whose it shall be;" that the scripture, might be fulfilled, ful-filled, saying by King David in the 21st Psalm: "They have parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they have cast lots." And the Unitarian soldiers from pagan Rome indeed did these things.. Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, His mother and Mary of Cleophas, and Mary Magdalen. Magda-len. When Jesus therefore had seen His mother and the disciple standing whom He loved, He saith to His mother: "Woman, behold thy son." After that He saith to. the disciple: "Behold thy mother." moth-er." And from that hour the disciple took her to his own. Afterwards, Jesus knowing that all things were now accomplished, that the scripture might be fulfilled; ful-filled; said: "I thirst." They gave me gall for my food, and in my thirst thev gave me vinegar to drink. King David, 6Sth Psalm. Now there was a vessel set there full of vinegar. vine-gar. And the Unitarians, putting a sponge full of vinegar about hyssop, put it to His mouth. The Savior therefore, when he had taken the vinegar, said: "It is consummated." And bowing His head He gave up the ghost. RICARDO. |