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::Jesus didn't decline worldly power; he declined sin in the Last Temptation.  Also, you're patently wrong bout the "only similar example" being history.  Let's start in Rome.  Diocletian abdicated from his post as senior Augustus to allow his junior Caesar to take his place.  He did this for no other reason than the good of Rome; to secure the balance in the tetrarchy.  Also, famously, the Roman dictator Cincinattus served as unquestioned ruler for under a year before surrendering his position and returning to his farm, earning him a place in Roman legend.  Washington actually followed Cincinattus' example, as all the founders sought to emulate the Roman Republic, and British poet Lord Byron caught on.  In his poem, "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte," the poet scourges Bonaparte before hailing Washington as "the first, the last, the best, the Cincinnatus of the West."  http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/2001/byron0101.html.--[[User:AmesG|AmesG]] 10:32, 8 March 2007 (EST)

::Jesus didn't decline worldly power; he declined sin in the Last Temptation.  Also, you're patently wrong bout the "only similar example" being history.  Let's start in Rome.  Diocletian abdicated from his post as senior Augustus to allow his junior Caesar to take his place.  He did this for no other reason than the good of Rome; to secure the balance in the tetrarchy.  Also, famously, the Roman dictator Cincinattus served as unquestioned ruler for under a year before surrendering his position and returning to his farm, earning him a place in Roman legend.  Washington actually followed Cincinattus' example, as all the founders sought to emulate the Roman Republic, and British poet Lord Byron caught on.  In his poem, "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte," the poet scourges Bonaparte before hailing Washington as "the first, the last, the best, the Cincinnatus of the West."  http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/2001/byron0101.html.--[[User:AmesG|AmesG]] 10:32, 8 March 2007 (EST)

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