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85* God to choose only one perfection, sufficient to all people, and He has not established nor chosen any other laws under which the many hordes could justify their divisions and customs and interpretations and deeds.

We have spoken about the many hordes existing under the disguise of faith, which have strayed from the law of God and torn the net of faith, only by lip-service professing their belief, hiding behind sacred symbols of the glory of faith and so completely covered up by them that they appear like Christians when, in fact, they are the domestic enemies of faith and of the chosen ones of God.

Matt. 13: 25–26,

In the Czech original an anacoluthon; here adjusted.

A reference to the first horse or the Apocalypse (war), Rev. 6:2 ("And I saw, and behold, a white horse, and its rider had a bow; and a crown was given to him, and he went out conquering and to conquer."). –

Reference to Sylvester I, (Saint), Pope ( 314–335). He was made Pope after the death of Melchiades ("Miltiades"). At an early date legend brings him into close relationship with Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, but in a way that is probably contrary to historical fact. These legends were introduced especially into the (Duchesne,, Introd. cixff), which appeared in the East and has been preserved in Greek, Syriac, and Latin in the "Constitutum Sylvestri," an apocryphal account of an alleged Roman council which belongs to the Symmachian forgeries and appeared between 501–508, and also the  (Funk, , vol.I, pp.501ff). The legend of the Donation of Constantine was exploded by the humanist Lorenzo Valla. Concerning the story of Emperor Constantine holding the bridle of Pope Sylvester's horse, there is an interesting twelfth century mosaic depicting the theme in the Chapel of St.Sylvester, of the church of the Santi Quattro Coronati, in Rome.

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This is one of Chelc̄icky̍'s technical terms. In the original the word is "rota" which has always a derogatory connotation. Literally meaning "horde," this expression sometimes connotes a profession, a caste, privileged class, an exclusive group, a faction.

Numbers 18:20.

An anacoluthon.

Chap.XXX, p.140*.

1-Cor. 12: 26.

John 17:20–23,.

Luke 6:31.

Matt.13:25–26.

Psalm 19:8.

Isa. 1:18.

I-Cor. 13:3.