Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
Ioannes Paulus PP. II
Nationalism, capitalism, and hoarding. The idea of every nation
should be forgot, price should be struck from the commons, and
princes should be seen for the devils they are. The sins include
our church, secret societies, and other religions which make of
the spirit of God a divide."
Last rites declaration of Ioannes Paulus PP. II (Karol Wojtyla)
2nd April 2005
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Hosea 3:4.
720. Non habemus regem nisi Caesarem.[140] Therefore Jesus Christ was the
Messiah, since they had no longer any king but a stranger, and would have no
other.
721. We have no king but Caesar.
722. Daniel 2: "All thy soothsayers and wise men cannot shew unto thee the
secret which thou hast demanded. But there is a God in heaven who can do so,
and that hath revealed to thee in thy dream what shall be in the latter
days." (This dream must have caused him much misgiving.)
"And it is not by my own wisdom that I have knowledge of this secret, but by
the revelation of this same God, that hath revealed it to me, to make it
manifest in thy presence.
"Thy dream was then of this kind. Thou sawest a great image, high and
terrible, which stood before thee. His head was of gold, his breast and arms
of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay. Thus thou sawest till that a stone was cut
out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that were of iron
and of clay, and brake them to pieces.
"Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold broken to
pieces together, and the wind carried them away; but this stone that smote
the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. This is the
dream, and now I will give thee the interpretation thereof.
"Thou who art the greatest of kings, and to whom God hath given a power so
vast that thou art renowned among all peoples, art the head of gold which
thou hast seen. But after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee,
and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the
earth.
"But the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, and even as iron breaketh
in pieces and subdueth all things, so shall this empire break in pieces and
bruise all.
"And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of clay and part of iron,
the kingdom shall be divided; but there