And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascends out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them, and shall overcome them, and kill them.
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Bede
AD 735
kill: He will overcome in those who shall succumb, he will kill in those who, with laudable patience, shall be slain. Or: if he shall overcome and kill spiritually, we may take it of a part of the witnesses, as the Lord says in the Gospel, "They will deliver you up to affliction, and kill you;" which Luke the Evangelist intimates to have been spoken of a part, saying, "Some of you they will kill." <a