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America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Modern Version]

America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.

America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.

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Page 65. The Sabbath Among the Waldenses.--There are writers who have ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed<br />

that the Waldenses made a general practice of observ<strong>in</strong>g the seventh-day Sabbath. This<br />

concept arose from sources which <strong>in</strong> the orig<strong>in</strong>al Lat<strong>in</strong> describe the Waldenses as keep<strong>in</strong>g the<br />

Dies Dom<strong>in</strong>icalis, or Lord's day (Sunday), but <strong>in</strong> which through a practice which dates from the<br />

Reformation, the word for "Sunday" has been translated "Sabbath."<br />

But there is historical evidence of some observance of the seventh-day Sabbath among<br />

the Waldenses. A report of an <strong>in</strong>quisition before whom were brought some Waldenses of<br />

Moravia <strong>in</strong> the middle of the fifteenth century declares that among the Waldenses "not a few<br />

<strong>in</strong>deed celebrate the Sabbath with the Jews."--Johann Joseph Ignaz von Doell<strong>in</strong>ger, Beitrage<br />

zur Sektengeschichte des Mittelalters (Reports on the History of the Sects of the Middle Ages),<br />

Munich, 1890, 2d pt., p. 661. There can be no question that this source <strong>in</strong>dicates the<br />

observance of the seventh-day Sabbath.<br />

Page 65. Waldensian <strong>Version</strong>s of the Bible.--On recent discoveries of Waldensian<br />

manuscripts see M. Esposito, "Sur quelques manuscrits de l'ancienne litterature des Vaudois<br />

du Piemont," <strong>in</strong> Revue d'Historique Ecclesiastique (Louva<strong>in</strong>, 1951), p. 130 ff.; F. Jostes, "Die<br />

Waldenserbibeln," <strong>in</strong> Historisches Jahrbuch, 1894; D. Lortsch, Histoire de la Bible en France<br />

(Paris, 1910), ch. 10.<br />

A classic written <strong>by</strong> one of the Waldensian "barbs" is Jean Leger, Histoire Generale des<br />

Eglises Evangeliques des Vallees de Piemont (Leyden, 1669), which was written at the time of<br />

the great persecutions and conta<strong>in</strong>s firsthand <strong>in</strong>formation with draw<strong>in</strong>gs.<br />

For the literature of Waldensian texts see A. Destefano, Civilta Medioevale (1944); and<br />

Riformatori ed eretici nel medioeve (Palermo, 1938); J. D. Bounous, The Waldensian Patois of<br />

Pramol (Nashville, 1936); and A. Donda<strong>in</strong>e, Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum (1946).<br />

For the history of the Waldenses some of the more recent, reliable works are: E. Comba,<br />

History of the Waldenses <strong>in</strong> Italy (see later Italian edition published <strong>in</strong> Torre Pellice, 1934); E.<br />

Gebhart, Mystics and Heretics (Boston, 1927); G. Gonnet, Il Valdismo Medioevale,<br />

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