Author: Teresa Pelka

The French declaration of human and citizen rights

Ignorance, neglect, and disregard of human rights are in themselves able to wrong peoples and discompose governments …
The Fatima Sun and word

No phenomena having been observed from locations other than Fatima or Vatican, the “miracles” must have been local and atmospheric actions by man from Earth.
Paine & Wycliffe, 2 Kings 15.16

He smote the city of Tiphsah, because they opened not, and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.
Paine & Wycliffe, 2 Kings 10.7

They were the children of Ahab, and were murdered by the orders of Jehu, whom Elisha had anointed to be king.
Paine & Wycliffe, 1 Samuel 25 & 28

Samuel died before Saul, yet the history in those books is extended through Saul’s life, and the life of David.
Paine & Wycliffe, 1 Samuel 9.11, 18, 9

It is only necessary to read the account that the writer gives of Saul going to seek his father’s asses.
Paine & Wycliffe, 1 Chronicles 14.3-4

The evidence is abundant that every book in the Bible from Genesis to Judges is without authenticity.
Paine & Wycliffe, 2 Samuel 5.4

The account that “the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah” corresponds to no other time than after Jerusalem was taken by David.
Paine & Wycliffe, Judges 1.7-8

“Now the children of Judah had fought against Jerusalem” — the book could not have been written before Jerusalem had been taken.
Paine & 3 Bibles, the synagogue

Both early and later versions of Wycliffe refer the word kingdom to the word realm. Wycliffe knew Greek and Latin.
Paine & 3 Bibles, the nativity

The four books do not give a history of the life of Jesus Christ, but only detached anecdotes of him.
Paine & 3 Bibles, the arrest of Christ

His arrest shows that he did not intend to be apprehended, and consequently that he did not intend to be crucified.
Paine & Wycliffe, the 4 Apostles, crucifixion

We may infer from these circumstances, trivial as they are, that those writers were not present at the scene.
Paine & 3 Bibles, Christ genealogy

Matthew genealogy of Christ makes there to be twenty-eight generations. Luke makes there to be forty-three generations.
Paine & Wycliffe, Judges 1

Who he was, is altogether unknown; the only point that the book proves is that the author lived long after the time of Joshua.
Paine & Wycliffe, Joshua 15.63

The question upon this passage is, at what time did the Jebusites and the children of Judah dwell together at Jerusalem?
Paine & Wycliffe, Joshua 10.26-27

Interpretation to Modern English © Teresa Pelka, M.A. Quoted in Thomas Paine’s Age of Reason, Conway vol. 4, page 108. And again, in chapter 10, where, after speaking of the five kings whom Joshua had hanged on five trees, and then thrown in a cave, it is said, “And he laid great stones on the…
Paine & Wycliffe, Joshua 8.28-29

“And he raised thereon a great heap of stones, which remaineth unto this day”, that is, unto the day or time of the writer.
Paine & Wycliffe, Joshua 10.14

Such is the passage 10.14, giving an account that the sun stood still upon Gibeon, and the moon in the valley of Ajalon.
Paine & Wycliffe, Joshua 24.31

An account written by some historian that lived after Joshua and also after the elders that outlived Joshua.
Paine & Wycliffe, Joshua 6.27

It would have been absurd and vainglorious that Joshua should say that his “fame was noised throughout all the country”.
Paine & Wycliffe, Joshua 1

The book is a military history of rapine and murder; the blasphemy consists in ascribing those deeds to the orders of the Almighty.
Paine & Wycliffe, 2 Samuel 12.26

For the historical part, Joab (David’s general) fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
Paine & Wycliffe, Deuteronomy 3.11

The knowledge of the bed and its particulars must be referred to the time when Rabbah was taken, 400 years after Moses.
Paine & Wycliffe, Joshua 5.12

As appears in the book of Joshua, the account of eating manna, which they tell us was written by Moses, extends itself to the time of Joshua.
Paine & Wycliffe, Exodus 16.35

It could not be Moses who said what the children of Israel did or ate there; he died in the wilderness, before the land of Canaan.
Paine & Wycliffe, Numbers 31.37 & 35

The matters contained in this chapter, as well as in many other parts of the Bible, are too horrid for humanity to read.
Paine & Wycliffe, Numbers 31.13-18

Here is  an order to butcher the boys, to massacre the mothers, and debauch the daughters.
Paine and Wycliffe, 1 Chronicles 1.43

It is as certain as anything can be proved from historical language, that this part of Genesis is taken from Chronicles, and that Genesis is not so old as Chronicles.
Paine & Wycliffe, Genesis 36.31

The book of Genesis, so far from having been written by Moses, could not have been written till the time of Saul at least..
Paine & Wycliffe, Judges 18.27-29

According to the historical arrangement, the place was not called Dan till 331 years after the death of Moses. 
Paine & Wycliffe, Genesis 14.14

There was no such place as Dan till many years after the death of Moses. The place was originally a town of the Gentiles, called Laish.
Paine & Wycliffe, Deuteronomy 25.4

Deuteronomy preaches up tithes. O priests! Priests! Ye are willing to be compared to an ox, for the sake of tithes.
Paine & Wycliffe, Deuteronomy 21.18-21

That law authorized parents to to have their children stoned to death for what it pleased them to call stubbornness.
Paine & Wycliffe, Deuteronomy 5.15

Deuteronomy reason for the sabbath is that it was the day on which God led and the children of Israel were out of Egypt..
Paine & Wycliffe, Exodus 20.10-11

In Exodus, the reason given for keeping the seventh day is God having made the heavens and the earth in six days.
Paine & Wycliffe, Deuteronomy 1

In Deuteronomy, the style and manner of writing marks more evidently than in the former books that Moses is not the writer.
Paine & Wycliffe, Numbers 12.3

If Moses said this of himself, instead of being the meekest of men, he was one of the most vain and arrogant coxcombs.
Paine & Wycliffe, 1 Samuel 18.10

But it appears that Saul prophesied badly; for it is said that an “evil spirit from God came upon Saul, and he  prophesied”.
Knossos Garuda

Why would ancient Greeks have buried the twinkle, the color, and the letter?
Constitutional parity for cash

The economy could be turning until Andromeda at least, if those predictions about the collision with the Milky are true. If not, then longer.
Confucius for T. Horne

Quite possibly, the USA avoided a major turn in the War of Independence, owing to their front men, Thomas Paine and Alexander Hamilton..
To constitute a man

Asked Rev. Wakefield, wiill it not be impossible for posterity, if literature is wrecked, to identify the real circumstances of the man?
Union of the Pacific

Simple as a barrel for water, the resolve depends on people; if people would talk and act in consensus.
The monitor hypothesis

Mother Nature has that trick for intrinsic feedback to return to part own input.
Constructive criticism

No supreme law of the land, no bill of rights, no republican form of government.
Carpe linguam

The dot is mostly rounded or square, but were it triangular or hexagonal, the sense for it always would be to give some frame to what there is written or spoken. It is never there to divide or terminate written or spoken thought. ■More
Paine & Wycliffe, 1 Chronicles 25.1

We read of prophesying with pipes, tabrets, and horns — of prophesying with harps, with psalteries, with cymbals …
Paine & Wycliffe: 1 John 5.7-8

Reason alone can determine how many texts are as spurious as the three heavenly witnessess, says Conway.
Paine & Wycliffe: Matthew 28.2

Behold, a huge earthquake was made; truly the Lord’s angel came down from Heaven, and he came near, to turn away the stone, and sat on it. ■More