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Originally Posted by aron
It started with Nee plagiarizing Penn-Lewis for Spiritual Man.
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Others such as Otto Stockmayer, Jessie Penn-Lewis, Evan Roberts, and Madame Guyon have given similar testimonies. Because we have received the same commission as they, I have freely quoted their writings. Because there are so many places where I have referenced them, I have not made specific reference to the sources.
-Nee
It seems that Nee felt that having the same 'commission' as other people made plagiarism okay, or that if it was too troublesome to cite sources, then it wasn't required.
Although Nee did admit that he heavily 'borrowed' from others, I think that he also should have also felt ethically obligated to take measures to stop anyone from getting the idea that his publications represented anything 'unique'. He didn't do that and consequently, his ministry was been portrayed as unique, as something that came directly from the
seer of the divine revelation in the present age.