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   Speaking of Christ; the founder of what was to become the jw vatican   
   pointed in part to the "3 wise men" as illustration of the worship of   
   Christ:   
      
   "It seems clear that His Divinity was retained in humanity because He   
   repeatedly spoke of Himself as having come down from heaven, and because   
   He, though passing through trial and sorrow as a man, was yet possessed of   
   the authority and exercised the prerogatives of a God.   
      
   He was the object of   
        unreproved worship even when a babe, by the wise men who came to see   
   the new-born King. Matt. 2:2-11. Even the angels delighted to do Him honor.   
        "When He bringeth the first-begotten into the world, He saith, "And   
   let all the angels of God worship Him." Heb. 1:6.   
      
   He never reproved any one for acts of worship offered to Himself, but when   
   Cornelius offered such service to Peter--the leading apostle-- "he took him   
   up, saying, stand up; I myself also am a man." .... Had Christ not been   
   more than a man the same reason would have prevented from receiving   
   worship...."   
      
   Zion's Watch Tower   
        1880 Oct pp.2-3   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)