Revelation 20:12

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And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.

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Bede

AD 735

written: That is to say, they were judged out of the Testaments, namely, according to that they did from them or did not. The books may also be understood to be the deeds of the righteous. For while the reprobate are condemned by comparison with these, in the spreading out of these they read, as it were, the good which they themselves were unwilling to do <a

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Bede

AD 735

stand: "When the Son of Man shall sit on the throne of His glory, then will be gathered before Him all nations."

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Bede

AD 735

book of life: Another version has, "which is of the life of each one;" So then by "the opened books," he means the Testaments of God, for the world will be judged according to both Testaments. By "the book of the life of each one," he means the memory of our actions, and not that the discerner of hidden things has a memorial book.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

AD 202

Moreover "he says, "the book of life was opened, and the dead were judged out of those things that were written in the books, according to their works; and death and hell were sent into the lake of fire, the second death."

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