“In their enmity to the truth, they set up another religion, an idol-worship, wherein the creature, with its works and its fleshly righteousness, has something to boast of. This they do in order to render vain the work of Christ, and to destroy the work of the Spirit. They do it also that they may have a wide mantle under which to cloak their crimes.”

— Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge

Source: Sermons on the First Epistle of Peter (1855), p. 9

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Dutch minister 1803–1874

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