RCE Verse Context

26 Why do ye speak against all the prophecies of the holy prophets?"

27 Now, the high priest's name was Giddonah;

28 And Korihor saith unto him: "Because I do not teach the foolish traditions of your fathers, And because I do not teach this people to bind themselves down under the foolish ordinances and performances which are laid down by ancient priests to usurp power and authority over them, To keep them in ignorance that they may not lift up their heads, but be brought down according to thy words.

29 "Ye say that this people is a free people; Behold, I say they are in bondage.

30 "Ye say that those ancient prophecies are true; Behold, I say that ye do not know that they are true.

31 "Ye say that this people is a guilty and a fallen people because of the transgression of a parent; Behold, I say that a child is not guilty because of its parents.

32 "And ye also say that Christ shall come; But behold, I say that ye do not know that there shall be a Christ;

33 And ye say also that He shall be slain for the sins of the world."And thus ye lead away this people after the foolish traditions of your fathers and according to your own desires.

34 "And ye keep them down, even as it were, in bondage, That ye may glut yourselves with the labors of their hands, That they durst not look up with boldness, And that they durst not enjoy their rights and privileges;

35 Yea, they durst not make use of that which is their own, lest they should offend their priests which do yoke them according to their desires, And hath brought them to believe - by their traditions, and their dreams, and their whims, and their visions, and their pretended mysteries - That they should - if they did not do according to their words - offend some Unknown Being, which they say is God, A Being which never hath been seen nor known, which never was nor never will be."

36 Now when the high priest and the chief judge saw the hardness of his heart, Yea, when they saw that he would revile even against God, they would not make any reply to his words;