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Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, Diego Velázquez

Revelation 19:20

Diego Velázquez, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1618 · National Gallery, London · Public domainDiego Velázquez, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1618, National Gallery, London

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Revelation 19:20 (WEB)

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

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Irenaeus of Lyons

  • “…choice, sitting also in the temple of God, so that his dupes may adore him as the Christ; wherefore also shall he deservedly “be cast into the lake of fire:” [this will happen according to divine appointment], God by His prescience foreseeing all this, and at the proper time sending such a man, “that they may…” — editor's note: Rev. xix. 20.

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Leo the Great

  • “As, therefore, the Old Testament was the witness to the new, and “the law was given by Moses: but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ;” as the divers sacrifices prefigured the one Victim, and the slaughter of many lambs was ended by the offering up of Him, of whom it is said, “Behold the Lamb…” — editor's note: S. John i. 17. Cf. Rev. xix. 20, “for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophesy.”

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