Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished MysteryRussell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
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Studies in the Scriptures, Volume 7: The Finished Mystery
Russell, C. T. (Charles Taze)
Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.; Jehovah's witnesses -- Controversial literature
For her grapes are fully ripe.—All these sects have long ago taken their
stand against the Truth and therefore against the Lord. O Lord, judge them
with Thy Truth! Thou hast called them the “abominations of the earth” and
so they are. Bring their man‐made clergy‐ridden systems to an end and make
their memory to perish from the earth! Amen.—Isa. 65:17; Rev. 17:5; Jer.
6:9‐30.
14:19. And the angel thrust in his sickle [into] UPON the
earth.—Distributed far and wide among order‐loving people the good news
that nominal Zion’s travail is at hand, and the new and better order of
things near.
And gathered the vine of the earth.—Brought together all the sects in
virulent opposition to the Message of the Truth.
And cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.—“The fruitage of
the True Vine is Love, and is precious to the Father; but the fruitage of
the Vine of the Earth is selfishness in various forms, and will be
ultimately gathered into the great winepress of the wrath of God in the
great Time of Trouble with which this Age will close.” (F. 207; Rev.
19:15.) “While the taking of different names was wrong, it was an evidence
of a deeper wrong—of a selfish, party spirit. It was an evidence that
those Corinthians who took the party names had never appreciated the
oneness of the Body of Christ; that they did not really appreciate that
Christ is the only Head, Leader and Standard; and that His is the only
name by which His followers should recognize themselves and each other.”
(Z. ’08‐116.)
Many of the clergy are today followers of Darwin and Socrates instead of
Moses and Christ And both Darwin and Socrates were mentally unsound. The
following is from Dr. Dorland’s _The Age of Mental Virility_: “It is
likewise exceptional to find an unusually short nose, such as that
possessed by Darwin and Socrates, among men of intellect. Nasal
abbreviation is one of the well‐known signs of degeneracy, as is also the
sessile or otherwise misshapen ear, the sugar‐loaf skull, the close‐set
eyes, and other physiognomic irregularities, including the cretinoid face.
The latter, strange to relate, has been noted in certain men of remarkable
genius, including Darwin and Carlyle, Rembrandt, Pope and Socrates. I wish
to emphasize at this point the assertion that not every individual who
chances to possess one of the above mentioned physical peculiarities is to
be immediately stamped as a degenerate. It is only when there is a
combination of two or more of these traits, especially if this combination
has been noted as a family peculiarity, that the suspicion will be
awakened; and this may then be confirmed and the condition established by
close and careful investigation.” “Socrates,” writes Pedigo, “presented
one of the most interesting studies in dual personality and subconscious
conditions in all history in his memorable daemon, which he said guided
him and inspired him with wisdom.” “Herbert Spencer was the victim of a
fixed delusion.”
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