Paul III Quotes
There is no redemption from hell.
Rolland, Romain. Michelangelo. Translated by Frederick Street, Duffield & Company, 1915, p. 119.
On the subject of international law in the pre-World War II period, one of the Senate's most outspoken isolationists said:. Tophet is a valley near Jerusalem, associated with death. See II Kings 23:10; Isaiah 30:33; Jeremiah 7:31-33. Tophet was also known as Valley of Hinnom (Gehinnom in Hebrew, eventually becoming English Gehenna, "Hell." For a contrasting view of international law, see below, Johnson.
Action he advocated to his followers who attacked and killed pro-slavery advocates in Kansas. The civil war of Kansas was over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave state of a free state. If a free state, the free states would be able to block further slavery. If Kansas were to become a slave state, the slave states would have a sufficient majority to make all future expansion hospitable to slavery. The slavery forces started sending man and families into Kansas so that they could vote; the abolitionists did the same. Both sides armed and a war began with each faction trying to kill or drive the other faction out of Kansas before the vote. See {617388} and {612516}.
Pope Paul III, born Alessandro Farnese, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 October 1534 to his death in 1549.