p. 5 | A PARALLEL IN TRADITION by Ellet Joseph Waggoner

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jun 17, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 24.

A PARALLEL IN TRADITION.

By Ellet Joseph Waggoner

THE old rabbis, the doctors of the Jewish church, had their fable of oral traditions handed down from Moses to the men of the Great Synagogue, who later put them into writing, with interpretations and comments, without which it was thought to be impossible to understand the Scriptures. Just so the Catholic doctrine of tradition substitutes the vagaries of the "fathers" for the pure words of God. And they are said to have received the traditions from the apostle just as the Jewish rabbinical writers received their traditions through Moses, who talked with God. Thus the Jews made void the commandments of God by their traditions, and thus the Catholic Church has made void the Word by tradition. Drink of the Fountainhead.—Waggoner.