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
sword: He who now persecutes the Church with carnal or even spiritual death, him the Lord Jesus "will slay with the breath of His mouth, and will destroy with the brightness of His coming."
Here is the patience Here is the motive of the patience and the faith of the saints, or the servants of God in this world. By faith they rely on the promises of God for the reward of their patience, and leave him to vindicate as he may judge fit their cause with respect to their persecutors. (Pastorini)
