There’s much speculation in our modern day church about the mark of the beast and not being able to buy or sell, but we don’t hear anything about Rome’s history of prohibiting true Christians from buying and selling. The reason for Rome’s actions? Because the true Christians rejected Rome’s perverted gospel. If we born again Christians had lived in times past, we too would have been restricted from buying and selling. Many in days gone by stood firm in their faith and suffered the dire consequences, … persecution and martyrdom. Will history repeat itself?
Some interesting history …
Revelation 13:17 And that no man might buy or sell, except he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Gill:
In a civil sense, as to trade, and exercise merchandise, and this was forbidden by several Popish councils and synods; the Lateran council, under Pope Alexander, decreed against the Waldenses and Albigenses, that no one should presume to retain or encourage them in their houses or countries, or “trade” with them; and the synod of Tours in France forbid any reception of heretics, or protection, and that any communion should be had with them “in buying and selling”, as Mr. Mede has observed; and it was ordered by a bull of Pope Martin the Fifth, that no contract should be made with such, and that they should not follow any business and merchandise:
Barnes:
The manifest aim of the papacy, in all its history, has been to control the world, and to get dominion over its wealth, in order that it might accomplish its own purposes. But, besides this, there have been numerous specified acts more particularly designed to control the business of “buying and selling.” It has been common in Rome to prohibit, by express law, all traffic with heretics.
Thus a canon of the Lateran council, under Pope Alexander III., commanded that no man should entertain or cherish them in his house or land, or traffic with them (Hard. vi., 2:1684).
The synod of Tours, under the same Pope Alexander, passed the law that no man should presume to receive or assist the heretics, no, not so much as to exercise commerce with them in selling or buying. And so, too, the Constance council as expressed in Pope Martin’s bull (Elliott, vol. 3, pp. 220, 221).
Matthew Poole:
And that no man might buy or sell: this the popish church effects by its excommunications; it was begun in the council of Lateran, anathematizing all who entertained any of the Waldenses, or traded with them; and the late learned bishop of Armagh, in his book Deu Successione Ecclesiae, hath given us an account of such a canon of a synod in France, which in express terms forbade any commerce with heretics in buying or selling. Paraeus tells us Pope Martin the Fifth hath best interpreted this prophecy, in his bull added to the council of Constance, where he prohibits Roman Catholics to suffer (allow) any heretics to have any dwellings in their countries, or to make any bargains, or use any trades, or to perform to them any civil offices.
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