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101* face and death to his pride and luxury. Desiring to continue in his exalted rule and to be given dominions and honors greater then the Emperor, he is bound to make room for himself and to destroy the net; he can endure only its tatters. Where its gaps would reveal his shameful nakedness he mends them with patches

So, wherever he can fish out some material gain with the net of faith, he uses some rags and tatters, turning masses and other sacraments into money, using the power of the Keys at the highest market price, excommunicating the innocent and exercising through them his revenge against those who would dare to 'fish' with the whole net.

See Chapter XXII,

Rev. 17:1–2.

2-Thes. 2:3.