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IRENÆUS AGAINST HERESIES.

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which took place under divine guidance,^[1] was a type and image of the exodus of the church which should take place from among the Gentiles; and for this cause He leads it out at last from this world into His own inheritance, which Moses the servant of God did not [bestow], but which Jesus the Son of God shall give for an inheritance. And if any one will devote a close attention to those things which are stated by the prophets with regard to the [time of the] end, and those which John the disciple of the Lord saw in the Apocalypse,^[2] he will find that the nations [are to] receive the same plagues universally, as Egypt then did particularly.

↑ We here follow the punctuation of Massuet in preference to that of Harvey.
↑ See Rev. xv. xvi.

MURRAY AND GIBB, EDINBURGH,
PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE.

[1] We here follow the punctuation of Massuet in preference to that of Harvey.

[2] See Rev. xv. xvi.

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