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establish powerful and rich missions, and lordly mansions;
but at heart those missionaries are political agents of their
respective Governments. The real cause of the calamities
which have befallen the Armenians, the Greeks, and the
Chaldeo-Assyrians in Turkey and Persia ought to be sought
in the treacherous and revolutionary instruction given by
all the foreign missions in the East. Indeed, the belief in
the intercessors has always been a source of abuse, fanaticism,
persecution, ignorance, and of many other evils.
Having proved that the "Paraclete" of St. John's Gospel
does not and cannot mean either "consoler" or "advocate,"
nor any other thing at all, and that it is a corrupted form of
Periqlytos, we shall now proceed to discuss the real significa-
tion of it.
but at heart those missionaries are political agents of their
respective Governments. The real cause of the calamities
which have befallen the Armenians, the Greeks, and the
Chaldeo-Assyrians in Turkey and Persia ought to be sought
in the treacherous and revolutionary instruction given by
all the foreign missions in the East. Indeed, the belief in
the intercessors has always been a source of abuse, fanaticism,
persecution, ignorance, and of many other evils.
Having proved that the "Paraclete" of St. John's Gospel
does not and cannot mean either "consoler" or "advocate,"
nor any other thing at all, and that it is a corrupted form of
Periqlytos, we shall now proceed to discuss the real significa-
tion of it.