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Author: langosh5
Ignatius to the Ephesians
Now the virginity of Mary was hidden from the prince of this world, as was also her offspring, and the death of the Lord; three mysteries of renown,(5) which were wrought in silence by(6) God. How, then, was He manifested to the world?(7) A star shone forth in heaven above all the other stars, the light of Which was inexpressible, while its novelty struck men with astonishment. And all the rest of the stars, with the sun and moon, formed a chorus to this star, and its light was exceedingly great above them all. And there was agitation felt as to whence this new spectacle came, so unlike to everything else [in the heavens]. Hence every kind of magic was destroyed, and every bond of wickedness disappeared; ignorance was removed, and the old kingdom abolished, God Himself being manifested in human form for the renewal of eternal life. And now that took a beginning which had been prepared by God. Henceforth all things were in a state of tumult, because He mediated the abolition of death.
But do Thou O Lord have mercy upon us,
Thanks be to God.
Our Help is in the Name of the Lord,
Who made the heavens and the earth.
BOOK I CHAP. X. - UNITY OF THE FAITH OF THE CHURCH
THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD. { note that St. Irenaeus is the first to record the creed later called the apostles creed – with a lot more than we usually see }
I. The Church[: all true Loving Catholic Apostolic Orthodox true Christian brethren and benefactors each of us holding You Christ Jesus Our Only Lord and Saviour the Head directly,] though dispersed throughout the whole world, even to the ends of the earth, has received from the apostles and their disciples this faith; in one God, the Father Almighty, Creator, Framer, Maker of heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are in them; and in one Christ Jesus, the Son of God, who became incarnate for our salvation; and in the Holy Spirit, who proclaimed through the prophets the dispensations of God, and the advents and the birth from a virgin, and the passion and the resurrection from the dead, and the ascension into heaven in the flesh of the beloved Christ Jesus, our Lord, and His [future] parousia from heaven in the same flesh in which he suffered, in the glory of the Father, “to gather all things in one,” and to raise up anew all flesh of the whole human race, in order that to Christ Jesus, our Lord, and God, and Saviour, and King, according to the will of the invisible Father, “every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth, and that every tongue should confess” to Him, and that He should execute just judgment towards all; that He may send spiritual wickednesses,” and the angels who transgressed and became apostates, together with the ungodly, and unrighteous, and wicked, and profane among men, into everlasting fire but may, in the exercise of His grace, confer immortality on the righteous, and holy, and those who have kept His commandments, and have persevered in His love, some from the beginning of their Christian course and others from their repentance, and may surround them with everlasting glory.
2. As I have already observed, the Church,
having received this preaching and this faith, although scattered throughout the whole world, yet, as if occupying but one house, carefully, preserves it. She also believes these points of doctrine just as if she had but one soul, and one and the same heart, and she proclaims them, and teaches them, and hands them down, with perfect harmony, as if she possessed only one mouth. For, although the languages of the world are dissimilar, yet the import of the tradition is one and the same. For the Churches which have been planted in Germany do not believe or hand down anything different, nor do those in Spain, nor those in Gaul, nor those in the East, nor those in Egypt, nor those in Libya, nor those which have been established in the central regions of the world { Jerusalem, the mother of all the Churches is here referred to }. But as the sun, that creature of God, is one and the same throughout the whole world, so also the preaching of the truth shineth everywhere, and enlightens all men that are willing to come to a knowledge of the truth. Nor will anyone of, the rulers in the Churches, however highly gifted he may be in point of eloquence, teach doctrines different from these (for no one is greater than the Master); nor, on the other hand, will he who is deficient in power of expression inflict injury on the tradition. For the faith being ever one and the same, neither does one who is able at great length to discourse regarding it, make any addition to it, nor does one, who can say but little, diminish it.
3. It does not follow because men are endowed
with greater and less degrees of intelligence, that they should therefore change the subject-matter of the faith itself, and should conceive of some other God, besides Him who is the Creator, Framer, Maker, and Preserver of this universe ( as if He were not sufficient for them ), or of another Christ, or another Only-begotten.
…while the Catholic Church possesses one and the same faith throughout the whole world, as we have already said.
(Pg.) 332
(Pg.) 497
Book 4 Chapter XXVI Section 4.
( Concerning how we act towards heretics – the evolutionary Gnostics )
From all such persons, therefore, it behoves us to keep aloof,…but to adhere to…the doctrine of the Apostles.
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Time: 4:25:36 PM EDT
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Jesus Christ Our Only Lord and Saviour in Your true Gospel alone Holy God, the Only Author of Covenant of Salvation, of:
ADAM’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY THE FACE SEEN BY EZECHIEL OF A LION PREFIGURING THE GOSPEL OF JOHN SHOWING FORTH THE ROYAL POWER AND AUTHORITY OF CHRIST THE IMMORTAL SON WORD WISDOM AND POWER OF GOD THROUGH WHOM GOD THE FATHER BY THE HOLY SPIRIT CREATED ALL OF CREATION WHO BECAME INCARNATE FOR OUR REDEMPTION IN THE FLESH AS ADAM HAD SINNED IN THE FLESH
NOAH’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY THE FACE SEEN BY EZECHIEL OF A CALF
PREFIGURING THE GOSPEL OF LUKE SHOWING FORTH THE SACRIFICE
OF CHRIST WHO IS OUR HOLY ONLY PRIEST VICTIM SACRIFICE ALTAR TEMPLE TABERNACLE REDEEMER SALVATION IMMORTAL IMMACULATE GOLDEN ARK OF THE COVENANT SHOWING HIMSELF FORTH AS THE ONLY BEGOTTEN REDEEMER IN HIS EPIPHANY OF FIREY GLORY AT HIS BAPTISM IN THE JORDAN
ABRAHAM’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY AN EPIPHANY OF THE LORD AND TWO ANGELS PREFIGURING THE TRANSFIGURATION OF CHRIST WITH: MOSES, A TYPE OF THE FAITHFUL DEPARTED AT THE FUTURE RESURRECTION, AND ELIJAH, A TYPE OF THE FAITHFUL LIVING AT THE FUTURE RESURRECTION, CHRIST CONDEMNING FOR ALL TIME THE DARKNESS OF IDOLATRY WHICH HAS NO COMMUNION WITH LIGHT - THE GRACE OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST
MOSES’ COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY THE FACE SEEN BY EZECHIEL OF A MAN
PREFIGURING THE GOSPEL OF MATTHEW SHOWING FORTH THE GOD - MAN PROPHET, THE CHRIST, WHO MOSES AND DAVID AND ISAIAH AND HABBAKUK AND EZRA FORETOLD ISRAEL WOULD EITHER HEED OR BE DESTROYED BY REJECTING, HE WHO IS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR BY HIS MOST HOLY CROSS BY WHICH HE TREAD DOWN SATAN AND CAST HIM OUT OF CREATION
DAVID’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY THE GIFT OF PROPHECY, ESPECIALLY OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST
DANIEL’S COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY HIS VISION OF THE ANCIENT OF DAYS PREFIGURING THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST ESPECIALLY HIS ASCENSION
CHRIST JESUS IMMORTAL SON MOST HOLY ANGEL OF ALMIGHTY COUNSEL CAPTAIN OF THE HOSTS OF THE LORD THE GIVER OF ALL COVENANTS WITH GOD SHOWN FORTH BY HIS PROMISE OF THE KEYS OF HIMSELF THE MESSIAH TO PETER AND TO ALL WHO BELIEVE IN HIM - CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR THE FINAL COVENANT SHOWN FORTH BY THE FACE SEEN BY EZECHIEL OF AN EAGLE AND THROUGH HIM TO THE FATHER DOES ALL GLORY REDOUND IN THE UNITY AND POWER and bond of love OF THE HOLY SPIRIT HE GIVEN AT PENTECOST ESPECIALLY PROCLAIMED BY THE GOSPEL OF MARK OF THE PREACHING OF THE SALVATION OF CHRIST JESUS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR WHO DESCENDED FROM THE THIRD HEAVEN FROM THE FATHER'S RIGHT HAND AND BECAME FLESH BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION AND WAS TRULY BORN OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY ON EARTH 70 GENERATIONS FROM ADAM AND YOUR CREATION OF ALL OF CREATION THUS SUBSUMING FLESH OF ADAM AND OF ALL MEN TO YOURSELF TO RESTORE YOUR IMAGE AND LIKENESS TO ALL THE SAINTS FROM THE FIRST ADAM TO THE LAST SAINT BY YOU CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR THE ONLY iMMACULATE LAMB OF GOD WHO ALONE TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WHOLE WORLD OF THOSE WHO ARE SAVED BY YOUR MOST HOLY CROSS AND HOLY BLOOD AND THE HOLY SPIRIT OF THE FATHER AND YOU THE SON JESUS CHRIST OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUr COVERING THE WHOLE EARTH AND CLEANSING THE WHOLE UNIVERSE THE ONLY FIRST BORN FROM THE DEAD IN THE FLESH THE ONLY ONE RESURRECTED ASCENDED ASSUMED BODILY IN THE FLESH SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD Baruch Adonai Yahweh El Olam Eth ABBA OUR FATHER IN THE THIRD HEAVEN IN THE UNITY AND POWER and bond of love OF THE HOLY SPIRIT OUR PARACLETE HOLY HOLY HOLY LORD GOD PANTOCRATOR AND WHO CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR SHALL RETURN FROM THE FATHER'S RIGHT HAND IN ThE SAME FLESH WITH ALL THE ELECT ANGELS AND RAISE FIRST THE SAINTS IN THE FLESH OUR SAME SPIRITS SOULS AND BODIES REUNITED AND THEN ALL OTHER MEN IN THE FLESH THEIR SAME SOULS AND BODIES REUNITED FROM THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE WORLD AND ALL OF TIME FROM THE BEGINNING OF YOUR CREATION UNTIL THAT TIME KNOWN TO YOU ALONE HOLY IMMORTAL UNDIVIDED TRINITY IN THE FUTURE AT YOUR PAROUSIA CHRIST JESUS OUR ONLY LORD AND SAVIOUR yOUR SAINTS TO INHERIT PARADISE RECREATED THEN WITH ALL THE ELECT ANGELS WORSHIPPING YOU FACE TO FACE IN THE GLORY OF THE FATHER AND THE UNION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT UNTO THE ENDLESS AGES OF AGES AND THE REST TO BE CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVERMORE UNTO THE SAME ENDLESS AGES OF AGES TO COME
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Subject: St. Irenaeus
Time: 12:55:28 AM EDT
Author: langosh5
As St. Irenaeus said:
IRENAEUS AGAINST HERESIES -- BOOK V
CHAP. XXVIII.--THE DISTINCTION TO BE MADE BETWEEN THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WICKED. THE FUTURE APOSTASY IN THE TIME OF ANTI-CHRIST, AND THE END OF THE WORLD.
2. And for this reason the apostle says: "Because they received not the love of God, that they might be saved, therefore God shall also send them the operation of error, that they may believe a lie, that they all may be judged who have not believed the truth, but consented to unrighteousness."(1) For when he (Antichrist) is come, and of his own accord concentrates in his own person the apostasy, and accomplishes whatever he shall do according to his own will and choice, sitting also in the temple of God, so that his dupes may adore him as the Christ; wherefore also shall he deservedly "be cast into the lake of fire:"(2) [this will happen according to divine appointment], God by His prescience foreseeing all this, and at the proper time sending such a man, "that they may believe a lie, that they all may be judged who did not believe the truth, but consented to unrighteousness;" whose coming John has thus described in the Apocalypse: "And the beast which I had seen was like unto a leopard, and his feet as of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion; and the dragon conferred his own power upon him, and his throne, and great might. And one of his heads was as it were slain unto death; and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast. And they worshipped the dragon because he gave power to the beast; and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto this beast, and who is able to make war with him? And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things, and blasphemy and power was given to him during forty and two months. And he opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme His name and His tabernacle, and those who dwellin heaven. And power was given him over every tribe, and people, and tongue, and nation. And all who dwell upon the earth worshipped him, [every one] whose name was not written in the book of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. If any one have ears, let him hear. If any one shall lead into captivity, he shall go into captivity. If any shall slay with the sword, he must be slain with the sword. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints."(3) After this he likewise describes his armour-bearer, whom he also terms a false prophet: "He spake as a dragon, and exercised all the power of the first beast in his sight, and caused the earth, and those that dwell therein, to adore the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he shall perform great wonders, so that he can even cause fire to descend from heaven upon the earth in the sight of men, and he shall lead the inhabitants of the earth astray."
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Subject: The 107 in Esphigmenou Monastery
Time: 11:19:37 AM EDT
Author: langosh5
See:
http://www.esphigmenou.com/
ESPHIGMENOU MONASTERY - MOUNT ATHOS
iera monh esfigmenou - agion oros
Under Persecution!
ALERT!!!! UPDATE: June 2, 2008
POLICE FORCES HAVE SHUT DOWN ALL ROADS LEADING TO ESPHIGMENOU AND ARE PREPARING TO ASSAULT THE MONASTERY!
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Subject: Huchede
Time: 4:57:04 PM EDT
Author: langosh5
Rev. Paschal Huchede's view of the Antichrist
http://journals.aol.com/langosh5/TheAntichrist/
Chapter 1- The Preparation
ARTICLE I-THE REMOTE PREPARATION
1. God's Design
God frequently punishes sinful man by delivering him up to a reprobate sense (Rom. 1 :28) and to the tyranny of the passions of his heart (Rom. 1 :24) as the reward of his contempt of divine love. When the whole world shall renounce Christ and reject the authority of His Church, when men shall say like the Jews of old, we will not have this man to reign over us, (Luke 19:14), We have no king but Caesar, Jn. 19:15), the vengeance of God shall be swift and terrible. His treatment of the world. shall be like to that of individuals. He shall respond to its criminal desires, which stifles the love of those saving truths, by the light of which the ship of state can alone be safely piloted through the siren dangers to which it is constantly exposed. He shall deliver it up to the man of sin who shall consign it to the darkness of vice and error since it rejected the light of truth and virtue. (2 Thes. 2). Satan shall have universal sway for awhile over all nations.
The Holy Catholic Church (the faithful remnant), which has fought the battles of Christ for eighteen hundred years, is therefore destined to pass through a persecution compared to which those that she has suffered up to the present time are insignificant. St. Augustine classifies them under three general headings. The first he calls violent, on account of the cruelty with which the early Christians were treated by the Roman Emperors, while at a later period the Church suffered from the deception of false brethren, a trial much more insidious than the former, as it was more dangerous. But the persecution of Antichrist will combine both forms and will consequently prove more redoubtable than when one form only had to be contended with.
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Subject: The reason for tryanny is the rejection of God. The type of that is Babylon.
Time: 1:39:17 AM EDT
Author: langosh5
Young ones here (137:9 (136-9) Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy young ones against the rock.) are young men who are the warrriors of Babylon.
Ps:137:
1 ¶ (136-1) Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion:
2 (136-2) On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.
3 (136-3) For there they that led us into captivity required of us the words of songs. And they that carried us away, said: Sing ye to us a hymn of the songs of Sion.
4 (136-4) How shall we sing the song of the Lord in a strange land?
5 (136-5) If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand be forgotten.
6 (136-6) Let my tongue cleave to my jaws, if I do not remember thee: If I make not Jerusalem the beginning of my joy.
7 ¶ (136-7) Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.
8 (136-8) O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.
9 (136-9) Blessed be he that shall take and dash thy young ones against the rock.
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Subject: Gulag
Time: 1:38:49 AM EDT
Author: langosh5
From:
http://www.roca.org/OA/21/21h.htm
Review by Hieromonk Seraphim
by Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn; in 3 volumes; Harper & Row, 1974, 1973 and 1978;
[excerpt]
This is the "ideology" of 2Oth-centurv man, the self-made god, and The Gulag Archipelago is the history of this 'triumph of Nihilism' by one who has lived through it. Given the spiritual state of the contemporary world, it is inevitable that a Soviet-type Nihilism sooner or later will swallow up the whole world; where is there a power to oppose it?...
[end of excerpt]
The point is emphatically made here that Apostasy from God equals godless totalitarian tyranny, i.e. the Police State.
Just like what is going on in the United States of America. And the whole world, see:
Apostasy
http://journals.aol.com/langosh5/apostasy/
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