Two Babylons... (page 2)

JWoods

Didn't Hislop also originate the "torture stake" idea (instead of conventional T cross) on the basis that the conventional cross was babylonish?

Also, do I recall correctly that he was very much an anti-trinitarian; claiming that the T cross somehow represented the trinity which also came from ancient Babylon?

JWoods

BTW, I remember that some of the circuit overseers and special pioneers used to use this book as late as the late 1960s - has it ever been officially denounced by the WTBTS?

Leolaia

As I recall, Hislop did not originate the "torture stake" idea per se but he did expound on how the cross symbol is pagan.

Those are two separate matters that the Society confuses thoroughly whenever it talks about the cross. The crosscultural use of a very, very basic geometrical shape (two intersecting lines) in art and religion is a very different matter than whether the ancient Romans practiced capital punishment by using an execution apparatus containing a crosspiece (yes, the Romans even had a word for it, patibulum).

Leolaia

I purchased the book from my kingdom hall in the 1980s.

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Marking this thread...

Good stuff...

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http://www.biblebelievers.com/babylon/

Is this it? It's online...

JWoods

I purchased the book from my kingdom hall in the 1980s.

Did the WTBTS actually publish it, like they did the Benjamin Wilson interlinear, or did they just resell it for some other publisher?

I suppose it has been dropped from the list now, from a post above.

Leolaia

Yep, that's the load of nonsense.

JWoods....They just distributed it. It was the same edition pictured at the website undercover cited.

JWoods

I have a funny story about "the two babylons".

The special pioneer in Clinton, Okla. where I went to serve where the need was great had this book. He was a big Hislop fan, and had it out to prove things about trinity to some bible study (who was in fact barely literate and could not understand anything about it).

Her cat jumped up and vomited right into the middle of the open Two Babylons that he had laid on the coffee table during the study.