p. 188 | THE HYPOCRITE

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 29, 1868

THE HYPOCRITE.

A better illustration of the final exposure of the hypocrite, we think we have never seen than in the following anecdote:

“The hypocrite by long acting the part of piety, may at last believe himself such a one whom at first he did but counterfeit; deceiving even himself, he may be so infatuated as to conceive himself no dissembler, but a sincere saint. But he cannot escape exposure. God here knows, and hereafter will make hypocrites known to the whole world. Ottocar, king of Bohemia, refused to do homage to Rodolphus the First, emperor, till at last, chastised by war, he was content to do him homage privately in a tent; which tent was so contrived by the emperor’s servants that, by drawing one cord, it was all taken away, and so Ottocar presented on his knees doing his homage to the view of three armies in presence. Thus God at last shall uncase the closest dissembler to the sight of men, angels, and devils, having removed all veils and pretenses of piety; no goat in a sheepskin shall steal on his right hand at the last day of Judgment.”