And thou wast burdened, and hast patience, and for my Name’s sake hast labored, and hast not fainted.

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12 And I saw the dead, both great and small stand before [a]God: and the [b]books were opened, and (A)another book was opened, which is the book [c]of life, and the dead were judged of those things, which were written in the books, according to their works.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 20:12 That is, Christ the judge, 2 Cor. 5:10.
  2. Revelation 20:12 As it were, our books of reckoning or accompts: that is, the testimony of our conscience, and of our works, which by no means can be avoided. This is spoken after the manner of men.
  3. Revelation 20:12 The book of the eternal decree of God, in which God the Father hath elected in Christ according to the good pleasure of his will, those that shall be heirs of life. This also is spoken according to the manner of men.

Yea, and I beseech thee, faithful yokefellow, help those women, which labored with me in the Gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellow laborers, whose names are in the (A)[a]book of life.

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 4:3 God is said after the manner of men, to have a book, wherein the names of his elect are written, to whom he will give everlasting life. Ezekiel calleth it the writing of the house of Israel, and the secret of the Lord, Ezek. 13:9.

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