25 And he shall speak great words against the Host High.
A canon by Pope GREGORY VII says:
The blasphemous power of the “man of sin” is exhibited in a work on The Priesthood, by M. GAUME. This work was approved by nine bishops and archbishops, and by Pope Gregory XVI;
Revelation 13:5 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies.
2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods.
The conclusion of DR. GIUSTIANNI’S ordination letter runs thus: "Given in Rome from our palace, the 10th of February, 1817, the XIV Jurisdiction of the most holy Pontiff and Father in Christ, and LORD OUR GOD the POPE, LEO XII,...."
POPE MARTIN V wrote in the dispatches with which he furnished
his ambassador to Constantinople:
"The most holy and most happy, who is the arbiter of Heaven and the Lord of the earth, the successor of St. Peter, the anointed of the Lord, the Master of the universe, the Father of kings, the light of the world."
Says DR. GiUSTiANNi:
"Go to Rome, and you will read on the gate of the city—“Paulus III Pontifex Opt. Maxim, in terris Deus.” Paul III, high priest, the best, the greatest, and God on earth."
A canon by Pope GREGORY VII says:
"All princes should kiss the feet of the pope. . . . To him it be longs to dethrone emperors. His sentence none may oppose, but he alone may annul the judgment of all mankind. The pope can not be judged by any man. The Roman church never erred, and never can err."
The blasphemous power of the “man of sin” is exhibited in a work on The Priesthood, by M. GAUME. This work was approved by nine bishops and archbishops, and by Pope Gregory XVI;
"...and, as a token of his appreciation of the said work, the pontiff sent him the cross of the order of St. Sylvester. He says: Suppose that the Redeemer visibly descends in person to His church, and stations himself in the confessional to administer the sacrament of penance, while a priest occupies another. The Son of God says, “I absolve you,” and the priest says also, “I absolve you,” and the penitent finds himself absolved just as much by one as by the other. Thus the priest, mighty like God, can instantly snatch the sinner from hell, render him worthy of paradise, and a slave of the devil make a son of Abraham, and God himself is obliged to submit to the judgment of the priest, to grant or refuse his pardon according as the priest may grant or refuse absolution. The sentence of the priest precedes, God submits to it. Q: Can any one conceive of a greater power?"
M.E. Cornell