Notes on The Apocalypse of St. John the Apostle (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
13:8 Slain from the beginning, etc: In the foreknowledge of God; and inasmuch as all mercy and grace, from the beginning, was given in view of his death and passion.
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