False messiah refers to anyone who has falsely claimed to be the messiah.
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Famous quotes containing the words false and/or messiah:
“But you must pay for conformity. All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are honest men in other particulars, know, that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)