For the mystery of iniquity does already work: only he who now restrains will do so, until he be taken out of the way.
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Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius
AD 320
And-my mind dreads to relate it, but I will relate it, because it is about to happen-the cause of this desolation and confusion will be this; because the Roman name, by which the world is now ruled, will be taken away from the earth, and the government return to Asia; and the East will again bear rule, and the West he reduced to servitude.
