Therefore has the curse devoured the earth, and they that dwell in it are desolate: therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
AD 339
After he rebukes those of the circumcision who have trespassed the law of the covenant of God and warns them with what he has written, he prophesies that only a small number of them will be saved. These few are those whom the apostle calls “the remnant according to the election of grace.” - "Proof of the Gospel 2.3"
Sin. Towards the end of the world iniquity will abound, and men shall rage against each other, Matthew xxiv. (Worthington)
They will also feel the effects of sin.
Mad: abandoned to their passions, (Deuteronomy xxviii. 28.) excepting only the elect. (Menochius)
Few. The Chaldeans permitted only a few of the poorest sort to remain, 2 Paralipomenon xxix. 10.
