Template:Curse children: Difference between revisions
m (→Born in debt) |
|||
| Line 99: | Line 99: | ||
Why are we under [[tribute]]? | Why are we under [[tribute]]? | ||
Mankind has consistently gone into bondage and under the authority of other men who make laws, compelling offerings, regulate the lives of the people. They become subject by application to obtain [[benefits]] at the expense of their neighbor, and their neighbor's children who will have to pay it off. | Mankind has consistently gone into bondage and under the authority of other men who make laws, compelling offerings, regulate the lives of the people. They become subject by application to obtain [[benefits]] at the expense of their neighbor, and their neighbor's children, who will have to pay it off. | ||
This is why [[Exodus 20]]:17 tells us clearly: | This is why [[Exodus 20]]:17 tells us clearly: | ||
| Line 117: | Line 117: | ||
: “He who contracts, knows, or ought to know, the quality of the person with whom he contracts, otherwise he is not excusable.”<Ref>Qui cum alio contrahit, vel est, vel debet esse non ignarus conditio ejus.Dig. 50, 17, 19; 2 Hagg. Consist. Rep. 61. </Ref> | : “He who contracts, knows, or ought to know, the quality of the person with whom he contracts, otherwise he is not excusable.”<Ref>Qui cum alio contrahit, vel est, vel debet esse non ignarus conditio ejus.Dig. 50, 17, 19; 2 Hagg. Consist. Rep. 61. </Ref> | ||
It is that power of contract that has allowed men to return to bondage and ignorance can be no excuse for those who chose to receive benefits at the expense of their neighbor. | It is that power of contract that has allowed men to return to bondage, and ignorance can be no excuse for those who chose to receive benefits at the expense of their neighbor. | ||
: “No State shall… impairing the obligation of contracts”<Ref>Sec 10, Art I, The Constitution of the United States.</Ref> | : “No State shall… impairing the obligation of contracts”<Ref>Sec 10, Art I, The Constitution of the United States.</Ref> | ||
| Line 123: | Line 123: | ||
: “From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”<Ref>“The Fall of the Athenian Republic,” Alexander Tyler, Edinburgh Scotland.</Ref> | : “From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”<Ref>“The Fall of the Athenian Republic,” Alexander Tyler, Edinburgh Scotland.</Ref> | ||
We curse our children with debt through our [[Covetous_Practices|covetous practices]] which makes them a [[surety]] for debt and little more than [[merchandise]]. | We curse our children with debt through our [[Covetous_Practices|covetous practices]], which makes them a [[surety]] for debt and little more than [[merchandise]]. | ||
From the book [[THL|The Higher Liberty]] | From the book [[THL|The Higher Liberty]] | ||
---- | ---- | ||
We are | We are supposed to be the father to our Children, but instead we pray to the [[Fathers]] of the earth for our benefits, knowing they only give us what they take away from others. | ||
{{Template:Fathers}} | {{Template:Fathers}} | ||
Latest revision as of 23:16, 4 October 2024
The corruption in schools comes from empowering the government to force your neighbor to pay for your child's education. All should know that the benefit of public school through taxation is the result of coveting your neighbors' goods. Every Christian should know that desiring the government to provide free education by forcing the contributions of the people is what the Bible calls a covetous practice which will make you human resources and "curse children". http://preparingyou.com/wiki/Curse_children.
"When your Social Security taxes get to Washington, they are spent – right then and there. What preserves the illusion of a 'trust fund' is that the Social Security system is given government bonds in exchange for the money that Congress takes and spends. But, no matter what kind of accounting sleight-of-hand you use, you cannot spend and save the same money. Those bonds in the Social Security 'trust fund' represent no tangible assets – not houses, not factories, not cars, not trains. They are promises that can be kept only by taxing future taxpayers." Thomas Sowell An American economist and senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and author of 28 Looks.
Curse of debt
Nations around the world spend the future of the next generation on graft and corruption, promising the masses deceitful dainties who have an appetite for benefits at the expenses of others.
2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
The curse of coveting
Have you cursed your children with covetous practices?
What were we told in the Old Testament about desiring to benefit by taking from our neighbor?[1]
Brute beasts
Are the "brute beasts" of 2 Peter the same as the perfect savages of Polybius and his "masses" who have become accustomed to living at the expenses of others and depending for their livelihood on the property of others?
"But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; 13 And shall receive the reward of unrighteousness, as they that count it pleasure to riot in the day time. Spots they are and blemishes, sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you; 14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children: 15 Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;" 2 Peter 2:12
What did Jesus tell us about desiring benefits for ourselves by taking from our neighbor?[2]
How do we obtain those benefits, those wages of unrighteousness, without asking our rulers to take from our neighbor with an exercising authority?[3]
What is this warning of the Apostle Peter really all about?
Born in debt
Every child born in the United States is born in debt.
Every citizen of this country or any other country that is in debt is a "surety" for the debt of those governments to which they are citizens.
Every nation is in debt.
This debt is because people desire to take their rest or enjoy the benefits of their labor or their neighbor's labor before the work is actually done.
In truth that is the real violation of the precept of the Sabbath which was a symbol of the way more than a special day.
If you are a surety for debt created by your governments you are not a keeper of the precept expressed by God's Ten Statements, especially the precept concerning working first before you take the benefit, called the "Sabbath".
The covetous covenants
Debt is usually the bondage that results from contracts, but in the case of government the debt is usually due to the covetous practices of the people and the offer of gifts, gratuities and benefits by men who call themselves Benefactors.
Those agreements are another rejection of the precepts of the Ten Statements of God and the wisdom of the prophets of the past.
The modern Christians are led by a blind[4] modern Church and cannot hear the words of Jesus.[2]
They have believed a lie and accepted a strong delusion, so they do not hear or understand the words of Moses concerning coveting.[1]
Such covetous practices makes the people a surety for debt and literally Merchandise as Peter warned and is a violation of the Ten Commandments:
- Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Deuteronomy 5:21 "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Romans 13:9 "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
The Bite that binds
Can it be called love of neighbor if we send men of authority to our neighbor's house to take from our neighbor for our benefit and welfare?
"For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite[5] and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another." Galatians 5:14
We the people have become slaves in a free land, human resources, because the saw their neighbor as a human resource.
The people of the world are again entangled again in the elements of the world and have returned to the bondage of Egypt because they were willing to sell their brother into bondage and would not hear their cries of anguish.[6]
All the prophets and the apostle consistently warned us of these systems that tempt the wantonness of the people with the wages of unrighteousness. How they weaken society with their dainties and deceitful meat.[7] The warning consent not has been ignored for decades and the people run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.[8]
"The masses continue with an appetite for benefits and the habit of receiving them by way of a rule of force and violence. The people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others... institute the rule of violence; [9] and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder,[10] until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." [11] [12]
- Polybius saw the downfall of the republic by way of their free bread and welfare a 150 years before the first Emperor of Rome and 175 years before the birth of John the Baptist and Jesus the Christ who opposed these same systems of free bread at your neighbor's expense.
- The authoritarian State often uses force and violence to become the Benefactors of the people if the covet what is their neighbors'. They make a social contract where one class of citizen is forced to provide for another class through "legal charity" which is not true charity. The writings of the Apostles warned along with countless passages of ancient writings of the prophets including Proverbs 23 which warned them about what Christ forbid which was the covetous practices of socialist forms of government.
The Curse and the Contract
Why are we subject to the ordinances of men?
Why are we under tribute?
Mankind has consistently gone into bondage and under the authority of other men who make laws, compelling offerings, regulate the lives of the people. They become subject by application to obtain benefits at the expense of their neighbor, and their neighbor's children, who will have to pay it off.
This is why Exodus 20:17 tells us clearly:
- "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s."
Desiring benefits at the expense of others is the "wages of unrighteousness". It is the essence of wantonness and the damnation of society. Not only the Bible warns against it over and over, but historians like Polybius and Plutarch.
Many people today want to cancel or say they will cancel student debt. What they are actually doing is transferring the debt incurred by people who were provided a service to a people who received no such benefits.
It is one group taking a bite out of another.
- “And to you who are troubled [contracted][13] rest [tolerable captivity][14] with us, when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels,” (2 Thessalonian 1:7)
"According to all the works which they have done since the day that God brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day the people have returned to bondage."[15] The people in the camp of the golden calf (at the foot of Mt. Sinai) were going back into bondage. In Egypt, all gold was in the treasury and they were bound under a central authority of that government. The people were no longer free but bound and their loyalty is secured.
- “He who contracts, knows, or ought to know, the quality of the person with whom he contracts, otherwise he is not excusable.”[16]
It is that power of contract that has allowed men to return to bondage, and ignorance can be no excuse for those who chose to receive benefits at the expense of their neighbor.
- “No State shall… impairing the obligation of contracts”[17]
- “From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to complacency; From complacency to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.”[18]
We curse our children with debt through our covetous practices, which makes them a surety for debt and little more than merchandise.
From the book The Higher Liberty
We are supposed to be the father to our Children, but instead we pray to the Fathers of the earth for our benefits, knowing they only give us what they take away from others.
Fathers |
Conscripted fathers |
Pater Patriae |
Patronus |
Emperator |
Potestas |
Imperium |
Genius |
Protection |
Authority |
Benefactors |
Rome vs US |
Polybius |
Plutarch |
Nimrod |
Senate |
Was Jesus a socialist |
Christian conflict |
Public religion |
Covetous Practices |
Imperial Cult of Rome |
Divide |
Biting one another |
Legal charity |
Cry out |
Social bonds |
Pure Religion |
Charitable Practices |
Corban |
Hear |
Merchandise |
Curse children |
Birth registration |
Undocumented |
Bondage |
Gods |
Apotheos |
Supreme being |
Mark of the Beast |
Nature of the Beast
Elements |
Perfect law of liberty |
The Way |
Lady Godiva |
Network |
- 2 Kings 2:24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the LORD. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
- Nehemiah 13:2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water, but hired Balaam against them, that he should curse them: howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing.
- Malachi 4:6 And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.
Use of the word cursed 2671 κατάρα katara kat-ar’-ah from 2596 (intensive) and 685; n f AV-curse 3, cursing 2, cursed 1; 6 1) an execration, imprecation, curse
- Galatians 3:10 For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse <2671>: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.
- Galatians 3:13 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse <2671> of the law, being made a curse <2671> for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
- Hebrews 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing <2671>; whose end is to be burned.
- James 3:10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing <2671>. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
- 2 Peter 2:14 Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed <2671> children:
- 1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray thee, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD have stirred thee up against me, let him accept an offering: but if they be the children of men, cursed be they before the LORD; for they have driven me out this day from abiding in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Covet not
- Exodus 20:17 "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Deuteronomy 5:21 "Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour’s wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour’s house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any [thing] that [is] thy neighbour’s."
- Micah 2:2 "And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage." Property and inheritance tax.
- Habakkuk 2:9 "Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil! 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thy house by cutting off many people, and hast sinned against thy soul."
- Mark 7:20 "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
- Romans 7:7 "What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet."
- Romans 13:9 "For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if [there be] any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."
- 1 Corinthians 5:10 "Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat."
- 1 Corinthians 6:10 "Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." See Not inherit the kingdom
- Ephesians 5:5 "For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God." See Not inherit the kingdom
- 2 Timothy 3:2 "For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
- 2 Peter 2:3 "And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not."
- 2 Peter 2:14 "Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:"
- Colossians 3:5 "Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jesus against covetousness
- Mark 7:9 "And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition." See Corban.
- Mark 7:20 "And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man."
- Luke 12:15 "And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth."
- Luke 16:14 "And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God."
- Luke 21:34 "And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and [so] that day come upon you unawares. 35 For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth."
- Matthew 19:17 "And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? [there is] none good but one, [that is], God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments."
- John 14:15 "If ye love me, keep my commandments."
- John 14:21 "He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him."
- John 15:10 "If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father’s commandments, and abide in his love."
- ↑ Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."
- ↑ False prophets and Guru theories
- Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."
- Isaiah 30:20 "And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,..."
- Matthew 13:13 "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."
- Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
- Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recoveing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
- John 9:39 ¶ "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."
- Luke 6:39 "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."
- Acts 13:11 "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."
- ↑ Bite not
- Ecclesiastes 4:5 "The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh."
- Proverbs 6:10 "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man."
- Proverbs 20:4 "The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; [therefore] shall he beg in harvest, and [have] nothing."
- Proverbs 24:33 "[Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: 34 So shall thy poverty come [as] one that travelleth; and thy want as an armed man."
- Proverbs 11:17 "The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but [he that is] cruel troubleth his own flesh."
- Isaiah 9:20 "And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:"
- Isaiah 9:20 "And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:"
- Ezekiel 11:3 "Which say, [It is] not near; let us build houses: this [city is] the caldron, and we [be] the flesh... 11 This [city] shall not be your caldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst thereof; [but] I will judge you in the border of Israel:"
- Micah 3:3 "Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron."
- Galatians 5:14 "For all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."
- 2 Corinthians 11:20 "For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face."
- The ultimate bondage is to hate your neighbor through the error of Balaam because we fail to forgive which is the consuming fire of Exodus 33 and the Raca of Matthew 5 that brings the judgement and wrath of God.
- ↑ Genesis 42:21 And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us. 22 And Reuben answered them, saying, Spake I not unto you, saying, Do not sin against the child; and ye would not hear? therefore, behold, also his blood is required.
- ↑ Psalms 141:4 Incline not my heart to [any] evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.
- Proverbs 23:3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they [are] deceitful meat.
- ↑ Proverbs 1:10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. 18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives. 19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- ↑ Matthew 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
- ↑ Luke 16:16 The law and the prophets [were] until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
- ↑ "But when a new generation arises and the democracy falls into the hands of the grandchildren of its founders, they have become so accustomed to freedom and equality that they no longer value them, and begin to aim at pre-eminence; and it is chiefly those of ample fortune who fall into this error. 6 So when they begin to lust for power and cannot attain it through themselves or their own good qualities, they ruin their estates, tempting and corrupting the people in every possible way. 7 And hence when by their foolish thirst for reputation they have created among the masses an appetite for gifts and the habit of receiving them, democracy in its turn is abolished and changes into a rule of force and violence. 8 For the people, having grown accustomed to feed at the expense of others and to depend for their livelihood on the property of others, as soon as they find a leader who is enterprising but is excluded from the houses of office by his penury, institute the rule of violence; 9 and now uniting their forces massacre, banish, and plunder, until they degenerate again into perfect savages and find once more a master and monarch." Polybius: The Histories (composed at Rome around 130 BC)Fragments of Book VI, p289 See also Loeb Classical Library edition, 1922 thru 1927
- ↑ An alternate translation in context, "9. For no sooner had the knowledge of the jealousy and hatred existing in the citizens against them which is replaced by democracy, emboldened some one to oppose the government by word or deed, than he was sure to find the whole people ready and prepared to take his side. Having then got rid of these rulers by assassination or exile, they do not venture to set up a king again, being still in terror of the injustice to which this led before; nor dare they intrust the common interests again to more than one, considering the recent example of their misconduct: and therefore, as the only sound hope left them is that which depends upon themselves, they are driven to take refuge in that; and so changed the constitution from an oligarchy to a democracy, and took upon themselves the superintendence and charge of the state. And as long as any survive who have had experience of oligarchical supremacy and domination, they regard their present constitution as a blessing, and hold equality and freedom as of the utmost value. But as soon as a new generation has arisen, and the democracy has descended to their children’s children, long association weakens their value for equality and freedom, and some seek to become more powerful than the ordinary citizens; and the most liable to this temptation are the rich. (which degenerates into rule of corruption and violence, only to be stopped by a return to despotism.) So when they begin to be fond of office, and find themselves unable to obtain it by their own unassisted efforts and their own merits, they ruin their estates, while enticing and corrupting the common people in every possible way. By which means when, in their senseless mania for reputation, they have made the populace ready and greedy to receive bribes, the virtue of democracy is destroyed, and it is transformed into a government of violence and the strong hand. For the mob, habituated to feed at the expense of others, and to have its hopes of a livelihood in the property of its neighbours, as soon as it has got a leader sufficiently ambitious and daring, being excluded by poverty from the sweets of civil honours, produces a reign of mere violence. Then come tumultuous assemblies, massacres, banishments, redivisions of land; until, after losing all trace of civilisation, it has once more found a master and a despot." Translator: Evelyn Shirley Shuckburgh, Release Date: November 8, 2013 [EBook #44126]
- ↑ thlibo 1) to press (as grapes), press hard upon; a compressed way, i.e. narrow straitened, contracted; metaphorically, to trouble, afflict, distress.
- ↑ anesis 1) a loosening, relaxing; spoken of a more tolerable condition in. captivity, to be held in less vigorous confinement...
- ↑ 1 Samuel 8:8 “... brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, wherewith they have forsaken me, and served other gods....”
- ↑ Qui cum alio contrahit, vel est, vel debet esse non ignarus conditio ejus.Dig. 50, 17, 19; 2 Hagg. Consist. Rep. 61.
- ↑ Sec 10, Art I, The Constitution of the United States.
- ↑ “The Fall of the Athenian Republic,” Alexander Tyler, Edinburgh Scotland.