PITHY QUOTES FROM PAST MASTERS
The greatest and main abuse of Scripture, and to which almost all the rest are either consequent or subservient, is the wresting of it, to prove that the kingdom of God, mentioned so often in the Scripture, is the present Church. . . .
The English Works of Thomas Hobbes. Leviathan, Chapter 44, "Of Spiritual Darkness, from Misinterpretation of Scripture"