He that leads into captivity shall go into captivity: he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.
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Bede
AD 735
patience: He had promised that the slayer of men should be killed. But because "no one is crowned but he who has striven lawfully," he says now that there is need of courage, now of a firm breast. After the beast has been described generally, first in hypocrisy, then in the open mouth of blasphemies, he describes it also in the persons of the leaders alone, in like manner in hypocrisy, then as revealed. THE SECOND BEAST <a
