As it is written, For your sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
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Irenaeus of Lyons
AD 202
And the time thus referred to is not called "a year "only, but is also named "a day "both by the prophet and by Paul, of whom the apostle, calling to mind the Scripture, says in the Epistle addressed to the Romans, "As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long, we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.".
"For we have been counted "says the Apostle Paul, "all the day long as sheep for the slaughter; "
