I have given them your word; and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
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Bede
AD 735
As if to say, The time is now at hand, when I shall be taken out of the world; and therefore it is necessary that they should be still left in the world, in order to preach Meand You to the world. But that you should keep them from the evil; every evil, but especially the evil of schism.
