Of the tribe of Judah were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Reuben were sealed twelve thousand. Of the tribe of Gad were sealed twelve thousand.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
This, too, is the reason that this tribe is not reckoned in the Apocalypse along with those which are saved.
