The Mark of the Beast Quotes

To the succession of the Caesars came the succession of the Pontiffs in Rome. When Constantine
left Rome he gave his seat to the Pontiff. - Labianca, Professor of History: University of Rome
The popes filled the place of the vacant emperors of Rome, inheriting their power, prestige, and
titles from paganismThe papacy is but the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting
crowned upon its grave. -Stanleys History p.40
Under him, was very nearly made good the papal claim that all earthly sovereigns were merely
vassals of the Roman pontiffAlmost all the kings & princes of Europe swore fealty to him as
their overlord. Rome was once more the mistress of the world.Myers General History p. 455
We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty. Pope Leo XIII

The pope is not only the representative of Jesus Christ, but he is Jesus Christ, Himself, hidden
under the veil of flesh. - Catholic National, July 1895
There is a man on earth who can forgive sins, and that man is the Catholic priest. Yes, beloved
brethren, the priest not only declares that the sinner is forgiven, but he really forgives him. -
Baltimore: Kreuzer Brothers, 1876
God Himself is obliged to abide by the judgment of His priest, and either not to pardon or to
pardon according as they refuse or give absolution. The sentence of the priest precedes, and
God subscribes to it.-Dignity & Duties of the Priest Vol.12, p.2

Vigiluis (the Pope in 538 AD) ascended the papal chair under the military protection of
Belisarius (A general of Justinian).-History of the Christian Church vol.3 p.327
The church may be divine right confiscate the property of heretics, imprison their persons and
condemn them to the flames.-Public Ecclesiastical Law Vol.2 p.142

In 1798 he (Berthier)made his entrance into Rome, abolished the papal government and
established a secular one. -Encyclopedia Americana
The official title of the papacy is Vicarius Filii Dei or Vicar of the Son of God. -Our Sunday
Visitor: (April 18, 1915)

After identifying the beast, we ask the question: What is your mark? Their answer

The church is above the Bible. And this transference of the Sabbath observance is proof of that
fact!-Catholic Record, Sep.1, 1923

"Of course the Catholic Church claims that the change [Sabbath to Sunday] was her act. And the
act is a mark of her ecclesiastical power and authority in religious matters." - C.F. Thomas,
Chancellor of Cardinal Gibbons
"I have repeatedly offered $1,000 to anyone who can prove to me from the Bible alone that I am
bound to keep Sunday holy. There is no such law in the Bible. It is a law of the holy Catholic
Church alone. The Bible says, remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day. The Catholic
Church says, No! By my divine power I abolish the Sabbath day, and command you to keep holy

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the first day of the week. And, Lo! The entire civilized world bows down in reverent obedience
to the command of the holy Catholic Church. - Father Enright, President of Redemptorist College

Q: "Have you any other way of proving that the church has power to institute festivals of precept?
A: "Had she not such power, she could not have done that in which all modern religionists agree
with her; she could not have substituted the observance of Sunday the first day of the week, for
the observance of Saturday the seventh day, a change for which there is no Scriptural authority." -
A Doctrinal Catechism, p. 174.

"Sunday is a Catholic institution, and its claims to observance can be defended only on Catholic
principles... From beginning to end of scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the
transfer of weekly public worship from the last day of the week to the first." - Catholic Press
(Sydney, Australia, Aug. 1900)

If the Bible is the only guide for the Christian, then the Seventh-Day Adventist is right in
observing the Saturday with the Jew. But Catholics learn what to believe and do from the divine,
infallible authority established by Jesus Christ, [in] the Catholic Church, which in Apostolic times
made Sunday the day of rest to honor our Lord's resurrection on that day, and to mark off clearly
the Jew from the Christian. - The Question-box Answers, pp. 254,255

The Church has always had a strong sense of its own authority Perhaps the boldest thing, the
most revolutionary change the Church ever did, happened in the first century. The holy day, the
Sabbath, was changed from Saturday to Sunday. The Day of the Lord (dies Dominica) was
chosen, not from any directions noted in the Scriptures, but from the Churchs sense of its own
power. People who think that the Scriptures should be the sole authority, should logically
become 7th Day Adventists, and keep Saturday holy.- SENTINEL, St. Catherine Catholic Church,
Algonac, MI (May 21, 1995)

"Reason and common sense demand the acceptance of one or the other of these alternatives: either
Protestantism and the keeping holy of Saturday, or Catholicity and the keeping holy of Sunday.
Compromise is impossible." - The Catholic Mirror' (Dec. 23, 1893)

Where Did Sunday Observance Come From?

Paganism must still have been an operative belief with the man He was at best only half
heathen, half Christian. Who could seek to combine the worship of Christ with the worship of
Apollo (child of the sun-god), having the name of the one and figure of the other impressed upon
his coins.- Encyclopedia Britannica: Article Constantine
The sun was a foremost god with heathendom Hence the church [Catholic Church] would
seem to have said, Keep that old pagan name. It shall remain consecrated, sanctified, and thus
the pagan Sunday, dedicated to Balder [sun-god], became the Christian Sunday, sacred to Jesus. -
The Catholic World, (March, 1894), 809

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The church took the pagan philosophy and made it the buckler of faith against the heathen. She
took the pagan Roman Pantheon, temple of all the gods, and made it sacred to all the martyrs: so
it stands to this day. She took the pagan Sunday and made it the Christian Sunday. She took the
pagan Easter and made it the feast we celebrate during the year. - The Catholic World, p. 809.

What Do Protestants Say About Sunday?

Baptist:
"There was and is a commandment to keep holy the Sabbath day, but that Sabbath day was not
Sunday. It will be said, however, and with some show of triumph, that the Sabbath was
transferred from the seventh to the first day of the week....Where can the record of such a
transaction be found? Not in the New Testamentabsolutely not.... Of course, I quite well know
that Sunday did come into use in early Christian history as a religious day, as we learn from the
Christian Fathers, and other sources. But what a pity that it comes branded with the mark of
paganism, and christened with the name of the sun-god, when adopted and sanctioned by the
papal apostasy, and bequeathed as a sacred legacy to Protestantism!"- Dr. Edward T. Hiscox (author
of the Baptist Manual )

Lutheran:
They [the Catholics] allege the Sabbath changed into Sunday, the Lords Day, contrary to the
decalogue, as it appears, neither is there any example more boasted of than the changing of the
Sabbath day. Great, say they, is the power and authority of the church [church of Rome], since it
dispensed with one of the Ten Commandments.- Martin Luther, Augsburg Confession of Faith, Art.
28, Par. 9

Dwight L. Moody:
The Sabbath was binding in Eden, and it has been in force ever since. This fourth commandment
begins with the word remember, showing that the Sabbath already existed when God wrote the
law on the tables of stone at Sinai. How can men claim that this one commandment has been
done away with when they will admit that the other nine are still binding? -D. L. Moody,
Weighted and Wanting, p. 47.

Presbyterian:
The Sabbath is a part of the decaloguethe Ten Commandments. This alone forever settles the
question as to the perpetuity of the institution. Until, therefore, it can be shown that the whole
moral law has been repealed, the Sabbath will stand. The teaching of Christ confirms the
perpetuity of the Sabbath.- T. C Blake, D.D., Theology Condensed, pp. 474, 475

Methodist:
It is true that there is no positive command for infant baptism. Nor is there any for keeping holy
the first day of the week. Many believe that Christ changed the Sabbath. But, from His own
words, we see that He came for no such purpose. Those who believe that Jesus changed the
Sabbath base it only on a supposition. - Amos Binney, Theological Compendium, pp. 180, 181 [He
authored a Methodist New Testament Commentary, and his Methodist Compendium was published for
forty years.]
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