And swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven, and the things that are therein, and the earth, and the things that are therein, and the sea, and the things which are therein, that there should be time no longer:
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Bede
AD 735
no longer: Assuredly, as the Psalmist says, "The time of the godly will be for ever." But the changeable variety of secular times will cease at the last trumpet, for "the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall arise incorrupt," and "their inheritance shall be for ever." <a
created: He who stands on the sea and on the earth, and stretches forth his hand to heaven, swears fitly by the Creator of the heaven, the earth, and the sea.