Pope Benedict XVI, His Companions
and Their Deceptions
by Khalid Jan
Humanity is currently passing through an extremely turbulent
time. Fear and artificial circumstances are created by people in power to
plunge humanity into chaos and suffering. On the global stage, Muhammad (saw),
the Qur’an and Islam are presented as the root cause of every perceivable
conflict humans suffer from.
From commoner on the street, to the Pope on pulpit, both are
eager to become popular overnight by evilizing Islam in any manner possible.
Journalists and writers, totally unfamiliar with the Qur’an and Islam, are
routinely writing articles and editorials on a subject of which they know
nothing about.
This paper examines the Pope’s September 12, 2006 lecture in
The Roman Catholics in general, are a kind, loving, humble
and generous people. Contents of this paper are in no way intended to hurt the
religious feelings or convictions of any one of them.
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“The current Pope has personally endorsed a document called
"Dominus Iesus", published in August 2000, by Cardinal Ratzinger,
Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It has been ratified
and confirmed by Pope John Paul II "with sure knowledge and by his
apostolic authority." This document states that people outside of
Christianity are "gravely deficient" in their relationship to God,
and that non-Catholic Christian communities had ‘defects’.” (http://www.important.ca/christian_relations.html)
“We do indeed know how thy heart is
distressed at what they say.” [Qur’an 15:97]
“A lie gets halfway around the world
before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
- Sir Winston Churchill
Khalid Jan
“In the Islamic tradition, God has given His word to
Mohammed, but it's an eternal word. It's not Mohammed's word. It's there for
eternity the way it is. There's no possibility of adapting it or interpreting
it."
The above statement is attributed to the current Pope. It
was made by the Pope’s former student and friend Father Joseph Fessio, a Jesuit
and professor of theology at Ave Maria University, on the ‘Hugh Hewitt Show’[1]
which aired on January 5, 2006. In September of 2005, a secret seminar at
Castelgandolfo in
In 1996, Father Fessio published a book titled ‘Salt of
the Earth’ by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. The ABC Radio National’s
presenter Stephen Crittenden, while interviewing Father Fessio on the 20th of
September 2006, quoted a short passage from ‘Salt of the Earth:’ “The
Qur'an is a total religious law, which regulates the whole of political and
social life and insists that the whole order of life be Islamic. Sharia shapes society
from beginning to end…Islam has a total organization of life that is completely
different from ours; it embraces simply everything…There is a very marked
subordination of woman to man; there is a very tightly knit criminal law,
indeed a law regulating all areas of life, that is opposed to our modern ideas
about society. One has to have a clear understanding that it is not simply a
denomination that can be included in the free realm of a pluralistic
society.”[6] This passage is one of the missing links which connects to his
September 12, 2006
Let’s go over a segment of the transcript of that radio
interview between Father Fessio and Hugh Hewitt:
“HH: Father Fessio, before the break, you were telling us
that after the presentation at
“JF: Well, the thesis that was proposed by this scholar was
that Islam can enter into the modern world if the Koran is reinterpreted by
taking the specific legislation, and going back to the principles, and then
adapting it to our times, especially with the dignity that we ascribe to women,
which has come through Christianity, of course. And immediately, the Holy
Father, in his beautiful calm but clear way, said well, there's a fundamental
problem with that, because he said in the Islamic tradition, God has given His
word to Mohammed, but it's an eternal word. It's not Mohammed's word. It's
there for eternity the way it is. There's no possibility of adapting it or
interpreting it, whereas in Christianity, and Judaism, the dynamism's
completely different, that God has worked through His creatures. And so, it is
not just the word of God, it's the word of Isaiah, not just the word of God,
but the word of Mark. He's used His human creatures, and inspired them to speak
His word to the world, and therefore by establishing a Church in which he gives
authority to His followers to carry on the tradition and interpret it, there's
an inner logic to the Christian Bible, which permits it and requires it to be
adapted and applied to new situations. I was...I mean, Hugh, I wish I could say
it as clearly and as beautifully as he did, but that's why he's Pope and I'm
not, okay? That's one of the reasons. One of others, but his seeing that
distinction when the Koran, which is seen as something dropped out of Heaven,
which cannot be adapted or applied, even, and the Bible, which is a word of God
that comes through a human community, it was stunning.”[8]
The interview clearly reveals Father Fessio’s anti-Qur’an,
anti-Islam and anti-Muslim sentiments. He says, “…there were more Muslims born
in
Before embarking on his mission to ‘Biblicize’ the Qur’an,
and ‘Catholicize’ Islam, it would be of benefit to Father Fessio to go over the
very basics of his own religion, as it stands today. In the summer of 2005,
Pope Benedict XVI wrote an encyclical[11] ‘Deus Caritas Est’ which means ‘God
is Love.’ This encyclical is derived from various Latin words, including the
word ‘Eros.’[12] This word in Greek has romantic and sexual connotation. The
term erotic is also derived from ‘Eros:’[13] “The nation's largest Catholic
archdiocese, run by Roger Cardinal Mahoney, has covered current hymnals with an
adhesive sticker, hiding the sexual and demonic artwork recently exposed in the
feature film documentary ‘Rape of the Soul’.”[14]
A functional society cannot exist in a harmonious way unless
a level of fear is introduced by the authorities. For example, taxes are paid
within due date for fear of getting penalized; a vehicle is not driven without
a valid license, insurance and registration for fear of getting caught by the
police; laws of the land are obeyed for fear of
being pursued by various government agencies. At certain times, authorities
even create artificial fear to psychologically control the masses.
If, as the Pope is suggesting, ‘God is Love,’ then the door
becomes wide open for self-gratification, immorality and sin. When a thief
steals, a killers kills, a robber robs, a rapist rapes, and if they happen to
be believers in ‘God is Love’ doctrine, they have then no fear of God. This
fear, in actuality, reminds the person that acts of brutality and violence
ignites God’s anger, and that Hell fire can be his or her abode after death.
This flawed doctrine of ‘God is Love’ infected the Roman Catholic Church’s
hierarchy which then channeled down to the masses through the clergy. Because
of this very doctrine, little children were sexually molested, robbed of their
innocence by priests in the dark dungeons of Churches around the world. Nuns
made pregnant by Godless priests were forced to have abortions.[15] The “ROMAN
CATHOLIC priests in the United States are dying from Aids at least four times
as fast as the general population, largely as a result of homosexual contact
that the church hierarchy has anxiously sought to hush up, according to an
extensive study published in the Kansas City Star.”[16] Sexual abuse within the
Roman Catholic Church was so rampant that in a 1962 document, Vatican told
bishops ‘to cover up sex abuse’ scandals.[17] Spiritual, mental and physical
corruption is the end result when ‘Fear of God’ gets replaced by ‘God is Love.’
How beautifully the Bible describes this Fear of God: “The fear of the Lord
is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.”[18]
Is Father Fessio aware that children, young girls and
disadvantaged women are being smuggled from eastern European and third world
countries for sexual exploitation into the Western European nations, such as
Italy and Spain?[19] In the land of John Paul II, Poland, an annual
‘Eroticon’[20] festival takes place. One of the main attractions of this
festival is when women break ‘sexual record’ by having intimate relationship
with men one after the other in front of a live audience.
The Pope and Father Fessio are worried about the
depopulation of Christians in the West.[22] To resolve the problem of
depopulation in the West, they should go after the greedy corporations, immoral
politicians, and the mass media outlets that are pushing their agenda for an
‘alternative life style’, ‘Pet Parenting,’ ‘non-religious sub-culture’, and so
forth. Christian babies are not going to grow on trees unless these immoral
ideologies are trampled by the Pope in Saint Peter’s Square. Hence, neither the
Pope nor Father Fessio has any good reason to blame Islam or its teachings for
the depopulation of ‘traditional’ people in the West.
The Spiritual death to Catholicism and countless of its
followers did not occur suddenly, but through centuries of evils taking root
within the Roman Catholic Church, and its extensions throughout the world. The
dark cloud that hangs over the Roman Catholic Church is not going to disappear
overnight. It will continue to thicken accumulating more electrostatic charge
which may, one day, release its anger by pulling the plug on the ‘Throne of St.
Peter.’ The cries and wailing of those little children who were raped, abused
and sexually molested by the Roman Catholic priests are capable of tearing the
seven firmaments of the heavens above. If the sin of Adam is a hereditary stain
which is passed onto every child who comes into this world,[23] then, most
definitely, sins of the disgraced priests must also pass onto to the Roman
Catholic Church and its extensions: where are the Roman soldiers who are
needed once again to nail another innocent man onto the ‘Cross’ for the sins of
the rotten lot of the ‘Holy Roman Catholic Church?’
In Father Fessio’s interview, he refers to two so called
‘scholars,’ one ‘Pakistani Muslim Scholar Rashan’[24] who thinks that ‘Islam
can enter into dialogue with modernity, but only if it radically reinterprets
the Koran…’ and the other ‘Egyptian born Coptic Catholic’ – a Jesuit named Father
Samir Khalil Samir who had a book with him containing ‘100 Questions on Islam’
by ‘key Islamic leaders’ who aim to conquer Europe. Any Muslim, who has the
correct Islamic belief and sound understanding of its teachings, would never
think in such an irrational manner of ‘conquering
The Pope and his companions are using the cold war doctrine
of “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.” The secularist and the hardcore
reformists some with PhD titles glued to their names calling themselves
‘scholars of Islam,’ are frequent guests at Castlegandolfo, such as Father
Christian Troll, a Jesuit, who is heavily influenced by late Professor Fazlur
Rahman.[26] The Pope, Father Fessio, Father Troll, Father Samir, and Cardinal
Pell are working tirelessly to completely reshape the teachings and
understanding of the Qur’an, and subsequently Islam – but on whose behalf?
Stephen Crittenden, during his interview, asked Father
Fessio if “the Christian Church regard Muhammad of Mecca as a Prophet of God?”
To this, Father Fessio responds “We must believe, as Christians, that Muhammad
is not a prophet, and that therefore whatever comes from Muhammad is either
coming from his own imagination or his own reflection, or from borrowings.”
Stephan Crittenden then asks Father Fessio “It’s not a true revelation?” Father
Fessio responds “No. It’s coming from the evil one I mean those are the only
sources there can be from the Christian of view.”[27] According to Young
People's Bible Dictionary “Other names or expressions for Satan are devil, John
8:44; the evil one, Matt. 13:19”[28] So, in Father Fessio’s view, ‘whatever
comes from Muhammad’ is from Satan. Little does he know that in two short
verses, the Qur’an refutes him: “No evil ones have brought down this (Revelation)”[29]
and “Nor is it the word of an evil spirit accursed?”[30] Due to his
misperceived assertions, Father Fessio unfolded one of many miraculous features
of the Qur’an. One such is ‘coherent and argumentative precision in refuting
its critics.’
Further, in his interview with Hugh Hewitt, Father Fessio
says “…Islam is stuck. It’s stuck with a text that cannot be adapted, or even
be interpreted properly.” This statement directly contradicts what he said in
his January 21, 2006 clarification letter to the Washington Times. Moreover,
Father Fessio in support of secularism says “I mean Jesus is the one who says
'Render unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God'.
Muhammad didn't say that.”[31] This saying of Jesus should be in reverse order:
God first and Caesar second. Else the only meaning that can be extracted from
this passage is that the masses should submit to authority first, and then to
God. What if the authority is Godless and prevents people from submitting to
God? A classic example is Stanislaw Wielgus who resigned “minutes before his
inauguration as Archbishop of Warsaw” because of his communist-era
collaboration with the secret police. “Historians estimate that up to 15% of
Polish clergy agreed to inform on their colleagues in the communist era.”[32]
Concerning Muhammad, he appeared with his Prophetic mission in
In fact, at present, it is Christianity and the Western
civilization[34] that is ‘stuck,’ frozen in time, and dying. Christianity
adapted to modernity, and changed the very essence of the teachings of Jesus
Christ. They embraced the corrupt, unethical, and dehumanized code of life put
forward by the Godless politicians, self-centered Darwinist, disoriented
philosophers, and confused atheists in order to put the Church on a
‘politically correct’ secularized path. The materialistic ways of life have
destroyed the lives of a great number of citizens of the Western world.
Compared to the so called ‘developing’ or the ‘Third World’ countries, people
in the West are generally well off and can easily acquire the material goods
they desire, and yet, “stress is epidemic in the western world,”[35] and “During
1990-1994, a total of 154,444 persons committed suicide in the United
States,”[36] and “Europe has the world's highest suicide rate and cases are
rising among young people, according to the World Health Organization
(WHO).”[37] For the past 2,000 years, what has the Roman Catholic Church done
for the dying humanity which Islam couldn’t do in 1,400 years? By secularizing
Islam, will the killings, forced prostitution, abuse of women, drug
trafficking, suicide, and many more social ills in the West disappear?
The Roman Catholic Church, since its inception, deprived
good-hearted Christians of belief in One True God. It wrapped the True
Monotheism taught by Abraham, Moses and Jesus in Greek and Roman
mythologies.[38] The ‘Vicar of Christ’
became one of the richest people on earth.[39] Ordinary working class people
barely making ends meet,[40] on top of paying generous tribute to ‘Caesar,’ had
to channel ‘Peter's Pence’ to the Pope for his expanded luxurious lifestyle.
Moreover, in the bygone era “The cardinals’ wealth was enormous. In addition to
the gifts from European monarchs, the cardinals were directly connected to that
elaborate system which sucked gold from all over
The Jesuit order, founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola, is an
intellectual, missionary and propaganda arm of the Roman Catholic Church.[44]
Through their educational and academic institutions, they penetrate into
diverse social, cultural and religious circles where they intellectually and
psychologically condition people for an alternate subculture based on
directives given by the Church or governments.[45] Jesuits are the ones who
work on top, and then let their social-programming flow down through
‘pre-designated channels’ for implementation. They “were expelled from
According to father Fessio, “…Christians in the
Robert of Geneva was Archbishop of Cambrai in 1368, and
cardinal in 1371. “He was recognized by France (his protector),
In his speech at
His speech is nothing but distractive propaganda. A tool
frequently used to divert the attention of the masses from the real issues. As
of 2006, “The total number of accusations against Catholic clergy in the
On Archdiocese of Sydney’s website, nowhere is it mentioned
that Cardinal Pell has any academic credentials either in the Arabic language
or in the exegesis of the Qur’an from a reputed academic institution.
Therefore, he has no authority to publicly make statements about the Qur’an
based on his reading of ‘50 or 60 or 70 pages’ of an English translation. He
committed a logical fallacy called ‘unsupported claims.’ The Qur’an is
in the Arabic language. No rendering of its meaning is considered the Qur’an.
As a result, he commits another fallacy known as ‘false analogy.’ Many
chapters and verses of the Qur’an have context which is called in Arabic ‘Asbâb
un-Nuzûl’ or ‘Reasons and Occasions of Revelation.’ This contextual information
is found in many books of Traditions of the Prophet.
“On Feb. 9, 1950, Joseph R. McCarthy, an obscure Republican
senator from
In light of the arguments presented above, it is clear that
Cardinal Pell made his anti-Qur’an, anti-Islam speech firstly to provoke
Muslims, and secondly, to use it as propaganda to divert the attention from the
horrible sexual crimes committed by Roman Catholic priests. Without any
reservations, he can be safely called a deceiver: “These wise teachers will
fall into the trap of their own foolishness.” [60]
If speeches made by the Pope and Cardinal Pell coupled
together with interviews given by Father Fessio are seen from a timeline
perspective, their public addresses connect in perfect harmony. 1.) Secret
meeting at
“In an interview in 2004 for Le Figaro Magazine, Ratzinger
said
On the one hand, the Pope and his companions are making
provocative statements about Qur’an, Muhammad and Islam, whereas on the other
hand, the Pope “worries about clash between religions and cultures.”[65] How is
it possible to engage in a Cross Cultural Dialogue when no ground rules exist?
And if there do exist any, they are repeatedly broken by the Pope and his
companions: “A truthful witness does not deceive, but a false witness pours
out lies.”[66]
“Julius Streicher,
editor of the infamous Nazi broadsheet Der Stürmer in
With regards to the purpose of his speech delivered on
September 12, 2006 at the
Let’s focus on Pope’s brief thoughts over the issue of
‘reason’ and Islam. He says: “In the seventh conversation edited by Professor
Khoury, the emperor touches on the theme of the jihad (holy war). The emperor
must have known that surah 2, 256 reads: There is no compulsion in religion. It
is one of the suras of the early period, when Mohammed was still powerless and
under threat.”[68] The verse 256 of chapter 2 of the Qur’an has nothing to do
with either ‘Jihad’ or Muhammad being ‘powerless and under threat.’ There are
six contextual reports related to this verse. All six of them talk about
individuals at the time of the Prophet Muhammad coercing some people to accept
Islam. In this relation ‘There is no compulsion in religion’ verse was
revealed.[69] In order to attribute reason to Christianity and violence to
Islam, both the Pope and Professor Khoury ignored the context in which the
verse was reveled. Why did the Pope
quote the Byzantine emperor, absolutely no rational explanation?
The Pope quotes the emperor asking the ‘educated Persian’
from the text edited by Professor Khoury as follows: “Show me just what
Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and
inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.”[70]
This is the ‘bolt from the blue’ which provoked Muslims all over the world. It
is indeed difficult to comprehend how the Pope, considered by many as an
‘academic,’ quotes such a statement where the person engaged in dialogue with
the emperor has no name. If a legal public case involving two persons is
presented to a court of law, one having a proper name and the other referred to
as an ‘educated German,’ the judge will simply dismiss the case, throw both
parties in dispute and the lawyers out of the court.
The condition of
When Muslims arrived in
In the interest and well-being of humanity, it is about time
that the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI and his team of Jesuits
examine the condition of their hearts based on the teachings of Jesus Christ
present in numerous New Testament passages. They must also correct their
clouded view of Muhammad, Qur’an and Islam.
To sum up, no words come closer than the words of Jesus:
"Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce
you will be judged, and the measure you give will be the measure you get. Why
do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log
that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the
speck out of your eye,' when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite,
first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take
the speck out of your brother's eye."[76]
The author can be reached at kj@khalidjan.com
Notes
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[1]
http://www.townhall.com/TalkRadio/Show.aspx?ContentGuid=d7cb9962-7ced-4e17-850c-fc09264f4cba&RadioShowId=5
[2] Islam's
Irrationality, By Ilana Mercer, FrontPageMagazine.com | September 28, 2006
[3]
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HA10Ak01.html;.
[4]
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060120-091649-2218r.htm
[5]
http://www.washtimes.com/op-ed/20060119-085302-6865r.htm
[6]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2006/1744967.htm
[7]
http://www.radioblogger.com/archives/january06.html#010506 – transcript of
interview
[8]
http://www.radioblogger.com/archives/january06.html#010506 – transcript of interview
[9]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1553225/posts
[10]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12517a.htm - Catholic Encyclopedia
[11] A
letter sent to all Churches
[12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_%28love%29
[13]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eros_%28love%29
[14]
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/4/prweb375489.htm - April 20, 2006
[15]
http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=NEWS&id=1128225631
[16] The
Independent, February 1, 2000, reported by Andrew Gumbel in
[17]
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1020400,00.html -
August 17, 2003
[18]
Proverbs 1:7 NIV Bible
[19]
http://www.helpsavekids.org/country2.html
[20]
http://www.eroticon.pl/
[21]
http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1304070,00.html - Deutsche
Welle
[22]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1553225/posts
[23]
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11312a.htm - concept of ‘Original Sin’ in
Christianity.
[24] He’s
most probably referring to late Professor Fazlur Rahman
[25] Qur’an
49:13, Translation by M.A.S. Abdel Haleem,
[26] Pope
Benedict XVI: The Mind of the Man by
[27]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2006/1744967.htm
[28]
http://www.bibletexts.com/glossary/satan.htm
[29] Qur’an
26:210
[30] Qur’an
81:25
[31]
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/religionreport/stories/2006/1744967.htm
[32]
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6238165.stm
[33] Qur’an
4:59, The Qur’an,
[34] Why
[35]
http://www.stressfree.com/stress.html
[36]
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049117.htm
[37]
http://society.guardian.co.uk/mentalhealth/story/0,,1390711,00.html
[38] Pagan
Christianity: The Origins of Our
[39] THE
[40]
Embezzlement high for Catholics - http://www.thenewstribune.com - January 5th,
2007
[41]
The Bad Popes, Russell Chamberlin,
Sutton Publishing 2005 p. 141
[42] ‘
[43] Matthew
8:20
[44] The
Secret History of the Jesuits by
[45]
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9516/9516.prologue.html
[46] Truth
Left Behind and The Left Behind Deception - By Steve Wohlberg
[47]
http://www.socinian.org/polish_socinians.html
[48]
http://www.nwjesuits.org/newsPub/Provincial/09%2008%2006%20Provincial%20Statement.pdf
[49]
http://www.radioblogger.com/archives/january06.html#010506 – transcript of interview
[50] Matthew
6:30 New International Version of the Bible
[51]
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_35_115/ai_53475486
[52] The
[53] Ezekiel
9:5-6 - New Living Translation of the Bible – Old Testament
[54]
http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/Archbishop/Addresses/200627_681.shtml
[55]
http://channels.netscape.ca/news/article.adp?id=20061028145109990008
[56]
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/beliefnet_poll_010718.html
[57]
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/05cius/offenses/violent_crime/murder_homicide.html
[58]
http://www.euro.who.int/mediacentre/PressBackgrounders/2001/20011001_2
[59]
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B07E6DC123EF93AA15751C1A9659C8B63
[60]
Jeremiah 8:9 New Living Translation of the Bible
[61]
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0607173.htm, YEAREND-VOTES
Dec-15-2006
[62]
http://www.buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=8,1089,0,0,1,0
[63]
http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/dominic_lawson/article1619225.ece
[64] Harper
Collins 2006 p. 212
[65]
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=173483 Friday,
December 22, 2006
[66]
Proverbs 14:5 New International Version of the Bible
[67]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextomy
[68]
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=46474 – Catholic World News
[69] Reasons
& Occasions of Revelation of the Holy Quran by Abu Al-Hassan An-Naisaburi
p. 88
[70]
http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=46474 – Catholic World News
[71]
http://www.jewish-history.com/Occident/volume7/jan1850/visigoths.html
[72] http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-70371/Spain
- p. 95
[73]
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=992&letter=S &
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Spain
[74]
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/199301/the.other.1492.htm
[75]
http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/program/neareast/andalusia/pdf/8.pdf
[76] Matthew
7:1-5 Revised Standard Version of the Bible
Posted January 18, 2007 with the kind permission of the
author.