Assumed Command

Famous quotes containing the words assumed and/or command:

“Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.”
—Pope Gregory VII (c. 1020–1085)

“If you are the Son of God, command these stones to become loaves of bread.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 4:3.

Tempter to Jesus.