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GATH ERING TO THE LORD.

"10, E Row, London. "DEAR BROTHER, Perhaps it will be cheering to my brethren who meet in the name of the Lord to know that a few

Christians have lately come out from the systems of the present day, and meet in a brother's house. We are about eight in number. We believe we are led of the Holy Spirit, and if we are to meet elsewhere, the Lord will open a door.

We meet on Lord's Day morning for reading the Scriptures, and in the evening for Worship and Breaking of Bread; and on Tuesday evenings for reading the Scriptures. We can, indeed, say the Lord has greatly blessed us. If it was ever needful that Christians should come out from the apostate systems, it is now. God bless all who are honouring Him, and who are jealous for His Word and Truth. May we be firm, is the prayer of yours truly in the Blessed Lord, G. C. G." [Conductors' Note.-It is very natural, Dear Brother, to desire a larger place to meet in. Our views have been fully expressed recently on that point. We indeed regard the following things as desirable

1st. That the room should be easily accessible from the

street.

2nd. That the outer door should remain open during the meeting.

3rd. That a simple bill or tablet should announce to passersby the times of meeting.

4th. That the brethren would do well to seek to be led to a

spot near at hand, at which to preach the Gospel and invite Christians to the Scripture meetings.

Desiring simply the glory of the Lord, we may well desire, earnestly and confidently, a room sufficiently suitable. Two parlours with folding doors, in a brother's house, is what most naturally directly suggests itself to the mind.

We do well, indeed, to desire not TO SHUT ourselves up to ourselves. At the same time, we can do nothing of ourselves; but must WAIT upon the Lord, to be GUIDED and helped of Him. Until He gives us what we think to be better, we must " be content with such things as we have." And thankful, too. During the winter season, more especially, it would be a most suitable arrangement, if you, and other small Christian fellowships, meeting like yourselves in your neighbourhood, were to hire a schoolroom or hall, say, for one preaching meeting a week. Then, if souls are converted, receiving them into fellowship in your own houses. Hired halls and large places, we remain convinced, are not the safest and best for fellowship of saints, however useful they may be for occasional UNITED TESTIMONY to the world in PREACHING the Gospel with the power of the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven.

The dear Lord glorify Himself in you, in us, in all. Amen]

OUR CORRESPONDENTS AND OURSELVES. Address Letters for the Conductors to 335a, Strand, London, W.C

J. B.-Dear brother, If we WILL refer our difficulties to our brethren, instead of taking them to the Lord aud searching the Word for ourselves, do we not deserve to remain in doubt and darkness? How often, when we have been consulting our brethren, has the Lord allowed us to come away, with our difficulties quite unsettled! We have been thus obliged to take them to HIM, and have found, to our sweet experience, where our strength lieth-even in the HEAD, kept unshorn of of the glory due to Him. He, "of God, is made unto us WISDOM," &C. (1 Cor. i.) Do let us hold this Practically. We know a man in Christ who had a difficulty of a social nature like your own-only last week. Remembering the precious assurance of the Lord, "If two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven," this brother went to another dear brother in fellowship, and interested him in his case. The two knelt down and asked the Lord to graciously give light from His Word. They arose, and after a little patient waiting the perplexed one was led to a passage. This was read, and, during its reading, light was poured upon the perplexed one's mind like a flood, that met his case in all its bearings. Oh, the blessedness of walking according to the Word! The Lord bless you. "Ye have no need that any MAN teach you.”

H. L. R.-We thank you, dear brother, but cannot use your kind communication. We are refreshed at the evident joyfulness with which you contemplate the Coming of the Lord.

J. S.-The days are indeed, as you say, "dark, pitchy dark," with regard to the World and the Professing Woman. But for this we are prepared by that word which tells us things will wax worse and worse, 66 deceiving and being deceived." W long, more and more, to see the dear Lord, face to face. And we feel a confidence that it is so with dear ones generally. But what we do also long for is-that the Real Church, the True Woman, may be found blameless at His Coming, ceasing to be wilful, to prefer Her own will to the Lord's. Wildness in turning away from the Word, when ministered, is very painful; if so to us, how much more to the Lord! Yet H love changes not! let not ours, towards those that are His, We are called to fellowship with Him "in enduring all things." He never ceases, either, in washing the Church with the water of the Word; in this respect, also, may we have fellowship with Him, with all patience and longsuffering. But it is H work, not ours. If He uses you or us, in any measure, to the blessing of saints, to Him be all the glory. If our efforts at any time fail, or rather seem to fail-nevertheless, He is glorified in us. Amen. To Him be all glory for ever and ever. T. C.--Very dear brother, the Lord is pleased and is glorified when dear ones hold fast grace under affliction. Many arc the troubles of the righteous, but the Lord delivereth him out of them all." "No chastening for the present seemeth joyous, but grievous, nevertheless afterward it worketh the peaceal! fruits of righteousness to them who are exercised thereby." Our afflictions are often blessed to others also. We join in your prayers that blessing may abound towards the dear children of God, and that all may be brought into a patient waiting for the Morning Star. Amen to that prayer, doubtless says every reader.

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21.-The First and Second Loves 22.-The Vine and Branches 23.-The Church which was at Jerusalem 24.- Kept by the Power of God BATEMAN, PATERNOSTER ROW. HEYWOOD, STRAND Published for the Proprietor, by

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PRECIOUS TRUTH.

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"Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath the Lord helped us." (1 Sam. vii.)

With this number is finished a volume of this Journal, consisting of 33 numbers.

It was with no desire of ours that the conducting

of PRECIOUS TRUTH came into our hands.

But as

that has occurred, we hope to continually look to the Lord to help us, as He has hitherto.

"For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places." (Eph. vi. 12.)

We are not teachers. We should be sorry any more to speak of the need of teachers, as though the Holy Ghost needed the helping out of man!

We are only responsible to speak our simple convictions before the Lord, and pray you to read our pages simply as the testimony as a brother. Recently the dear Lord has given us much manleveling truth. Unto the dust must man be brought

before God can be exalted.

"Hitherto hath the Lord helped us."

N.B.-Copies of the Title Page and Contents of Vol. I. can shortly be had for binding up, gratuitously, by Subscribers, on application to Brother Bateman or Messrs Heywood & Co.

"WAITING."

The Church is waiting for the Lord from heaven (1 Thess. i.) Saints departed are sleeping, resting in Jesus, waiting for us. (1 Thess. iv.) Saints of old, sleeping with their fathers (1 Kings ii. 10), are waiting for a "better country, that is, a heavenly," (Heb. xi. 16.) After the withdrawal of the Church, a contrite remnant of Israel, believing that Jesus was and is the King of the Jews, will wait His return (Zech. xii.) Yea, even now the whole earth is waiting and groaning to be delivered from the evils resulting from Satan's sway (Rom.viii.22,23) In a very different sense, lost souls, "spirits in prison," are awaiting the judgment of the "great white throne" (1 Pet. iii. 19; Rev. xx. 12). Lost angels, having sinned, and being "cast down to hell, and delivered into chains of darkness," are waiting, "being reserved unto judgment" (2 Pet. ii. 4). This place seems to be the "deep," into which the "Legion" craved not to be sent.

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"THE SEVEN STARS ARE THE ANGELS."

"The Seven Stars are the Angels of the Seven Churches : and the Seven Candlesticks which thou sawest are the Seven Churches." (Rev. i.)

hitherto held as to what is the meant by the Stars or DEAR Christian Reader,-What thought have you doctrines? Angels? Have you received any one of the current They are, all of them, unsatisfactory. Let us look at each of them, before we present that which, we are confident, is the true interpretation.

1. First, then, the most common doctrine is, that the "angels" of the churches are "the ministers of the churches." This is the meaning which the translators have themselves supplied, and inserted in the italic chapter-head or contents of Rev. ii. But while thankful to them, (but chiefly to the Lord the Head of the Church,) for their labours in rendering the Scriptures into the common tongue, it becomes us to remember that there are things "hidden from the wise and prudent, but revealed unto babes." And this-may be one of them.

"Let no man deceive himself. seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that If any man among you he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in men.” (1. Cor. iii.)

Now this first interpretation-that the "angels are "ministers"-necessarily leads to glorying in men. It is impossible to have the idea that we have an "angel" among us without glorying in him.

But, again, this custom of having one man as a "minister" in each church, is nowhere to be recognised in the Acts of the Apostles or the Epistles to the various churches. This practice may have— nay, must have arisen very early after the apostles' time; but the fact is denied by none, that no such practice as a one-man ministry was set up, and recognised, and its perpetuation provided for, by the Apostles.

On the contrary, what is seen is plurality of elders and liberty of ministry. Saints should, therefore (being desirous of acting according to the blessed Word of God) gather to the Lord-gather together in His name-and depend upon Him to minister to them by the Holy Ghost through whomsoever He will. This is "walking by faith, not by sight."

This way of meeting simply in the name of Jesus, in full confidence in His assured presence, had been utterly lost to the Church many centuries before the

translators' time, and though the last half century has seen its revival, to the blessing of myriads, (praise the Lord!), yet vast numbers of Christians are still in ignorance of its preciousness.

Such dear Christians, therefore, like the translators, are obliged to accommodate these words-" angels of the churches"-to suit their notions of ministry! and say that "the angels of the churches" are "the

ministers of the churches."

In another section of this article we show that such a gracious servant of God as Paul himself cannot be regarded as "an angel."

2. While, therefore, we cannot receive the teaching on this passage of those who hold wrong (that is, unscriptural) thoughts on the subject of "ministry," difficulty is also felt in receiving the interpretations of some who hold right ideas about "ministry." These latter interpretations, to which we refer, are(A) That "the angel" is the Spirituality of each is the Spirituality of each church;

[To this exception is taken, because it is a non-personal term, whereas the term angel is mostly personal, and personality is again and again attributed in this case. "Spirituality" is an abstract quality or thing, not a person. Now you cannot write to a thing. But the word is-"Unto the Angel of the Church of Ephesus write-"

(B) By some, the Spiritual members of each church, (viewed as united in one) are regarded as the angel;

[To this we object, because the oneness of believers is the oneness of the body, not of the spiritually-minded only; we are one, whatever the condition of heart and life. No other Scripture justifies the thought of one part of the Church being the "angel" to the other part. The "spiritual" part of each church cannot be the "angel," but are rather those who are individually addressed, at the end of each of the Seven Epistles in the words "He that hath an ear to hear." These are the Spiritual members of each Church. If they be a part of the Church, they cannot be the angels of the Church, because

the "stars" must be regarded as distinct from the " candlesticks," but this hypothesis confuses the two.]

(c) Guardian angels from heaven, deputed to take

care of each church.

[This view is founded upon such texts and facts as these"Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister unto them who shall be heirs of salvation ?" "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear Him." "Their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven." And in the book of Daniel, the Angel Michael is seen as the great guardian of the Jewish nation. Now, in all these and other cases, the angels, because they "excel in might," are seen to be used in a physical, soldierly, or servitor sense-never are they brought before us in the Scriptures as those who possess truth from God for us. They were, indeed, used to convey messages from God to individuals, but man was never encouraged to regard them as standing depositories of truth. Indeed, this interpretation-that the Seven Epistles were addressed to the Seven Churches through a Guardian Angelic Spirit, if practically taken up, would go far to override that Scripture which declares there is but one mediator between God and man, and might very naturally lead to that reverential regard for the angels of God which was foreseen and forbidden.]

PAUL HIMSELF NOT A "STAR."

Before we enter into the consideration of the right interpretation, let us altogether dismiss the claims of man to be identified with the "angels of the churches" by the following section.

The control exercised over the Stars or Angels is complete-they are in the Lord's Right Hand.

Can it be said of any one, or more, members of any church, that he, or they, have been thus completely, and at all times, voluntarily under the control of the Lord Jesus Christ, Head of the Church?

Of course, it cannot. This consideration should have great weight with us, in leading us to look away from ourselves for the Angels of the Churches. If any brother in the Lord could be regarded as a Star-Paul is that man. Yet who would claim for Paul such a complete and continual subjection to the Lord as is implied in the emblem of a star in the Lord's right hand? Take, for instance, his final journey up to Jerusalem.

It becomes us, indeed, to speak very carefully when weighing the conduct of an Apostle of the Lord, and we desire so to do. With respect to Paul, the Apostle to us Gentiles, we hope we reverence him as much as any, for all that the Lord did by him and in him, but with the Acts of the Apostles in our hands, we may well doubt whether that journey was directed by the Lord Jesus Christ, and we perceive that the truth we are here considering, concerning man not being the Stars or Angels of the Churches, demands a passing attention to this passage in Paul's

course.

Doubtless, "our beloved brother Paul" thought and felt that he had good motives for going up to Jerusalem--such as: a love for the poor saints, zeal for the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ, and a readiness to die for Israel's sake. But the best motives do not justify any course for which we have no distinct permission. (Oh, that we may all learn that lesson!) For aught that appears in the Word, Paul's project of going up to Jerusalem arose, (almost unwittingly, perhaps,) in his own heart and mind, and was pursued by his own will and wish. naturally had desires towards Jerusalem, and fosIn the beginning of his Christian course, Paul

tered thoughts within himself that he was just the servant for the special work of preaching Christ to the Jews. He even presses upon the Lord Jesus Himself these views of his personal fitness! The Lord having appeared to him, said-

"Make haste, and get thee out of Jerusalem; for they will not receive thy testimony concerning me."

To this requirement, Paul answers, almost in the language of remonstrance!

"Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee; and when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him!"

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It is almost the only failing recorded of Paul, in | whom the Lord was so greatly glorified-but a failure it clearly was.

For are not the facts these?

The Lord gave a command-"Depart-far hence," and He never revoked it. This, the will of Christ concerning him, was revealed to him through Ananias at his baptism, and confirmed by the Holy Ghost when he was separated to the work with Barnabas. Under such circumstances we should expect that Paul would not leave his work among the Gentiles without express permission. Now this seems to have been the case with regard to his first journey up to Jerusalem after his call to the Apostleship. Referring to that occasion, Paul says,

"I went up by revelation." (Gal. ii.) But with regard to his last journey, he went up against revelation, the Holy Ghost warning him from time to time that it would cause personal hindrance with his apostolic work, and when, at last, he had reached the borders of Palestine, the Holy Spirit gave an emphatic utterance of disapprobation.

"Now when we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand, and sailed into Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unlade her burden. And finding disciples, we tarried there seven days, who said to Paul, through the Spirit, that he should NOT go up to Jerusalem." (Acts xxi.)

As Paul did not bow to this utterance of the Spirit, nothing remained but the pronunciation of judgment through Agabus-indefinite imprisonment, which the disciples (finding they could not turn him from his purpose) are obliged to acquiesce in with a sigh"The will of the Lord be done."

Christ was indeed glorified by Paul's testimony, as He always is, whether it is received or not. But where was the good to souls resulting from it? The Lord knew that they who had rejected Him would reject Paul: and so He said, "They will NOT receive thy testimony concerning me.".

So, all the Holy Ghost has recorded is-an enraged populace, a trembling Felix, an almost-persuaded Agrippa,-but no soul saved. Even the Church, whose poor he went to relieve, only had their burdens increased through additional persecution excited by his presence. (See Hebrews x. 34.)

The Holy Spirit made known the mind of the Lord. Those who think these remarks groundless must shut their eyes to the above simple Scripture-that the Spirit intimated at Troas that Paul should not go up to Jerusalem. Most certainly, as regards conduct, it was possible for Paul to fail as well as Peter, whom he had to reprove to his face.

The Lord had called Paul to the apostleship of the Gentiles. And for what did he leave his Christappointed work? That he "might carry alms to his own nation." (Acts xxiv.) Now, was not this leaving apostle-work for deacon-work-work which any two or three of the good men who were travelling with him might have done-men whose praise was in all the churches? The course taken by the Apostle is altogether very surprising.

And mark the result! As if left to himself, see

him, with shaven head, adopting an unworthy temporising policy, and yielding to Pharisaic pressure!

And when in prison, we hear no midnight hymns as at Philippi. At the latter place, he was in the path of duty. But the castle at Jerusalem was made, on that night, by Paul's reflections, a gloomy prison-house indeed. But the dear Lord met his fears and regrets by a specially gracious word. Jerusalem, so must thou bear witness also at Rome." "Be of good cheer, Paul; for as thou hast testified of me in

bore witness at Rome, and, perhaps, at Rome only. The Yes; but in custody of the Gentile power. He Holy Ghost never presents him again as being at liberty, going about his legitimate work, preaching the Gospel in regions beyond, and confirming the churches.

and wiser than Satan), brought blessing to souls That the Lord (who always shows Himself stronger and glory to Himself out of the failure of His very dear servant, is freely admitted. Our only object here is to show that it was a failure; and thence to prove that no Gentile believer can claim, for himself or others, that which we cannot claim for Paul himself -to be a star in the Lord's right hand, that is to say, a light-giver always consciously under the Lord's control. We must look away from the church for the angel of the church.

As so much difference of view exists on this subject, we may well desire to be led by the Holy Spirit into this part of God's Word for ourselves.

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In the first place angel means "messenger, "revealer," and is generally in the Word a messenger from God.

Who is the messenger from God in the Church of God? who is the Revealer from God in our midst?

"THE COMFORTER, THE HOLY GHOST."

He is the Sent-One or Messenger in this dispensation.

"If I depart, I will send Him unto you." (John xvi.) "Hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches."

Can it be true, therefore, that the

HOLY GHOST IS THE STARS [REVEALER], THE ANGELS
[MESSENGER]?

This is the interpretation we are most happy in holding. That there are difficulties in it, we frankly confess. But for ourselves, we may say, in all good conscience, we believe the Lord has graciously shown us through them all. Let us proceed to look at these difficulties in order.

CONCERNING THE TERM "ANGEL."

Now, let it be clearly understood, this word has reference to office, "messenger," without respect to the nature of the one who fulfils that office. So that even God, when He comes down from the Invisible Jehovah, takes this title.

His temple, even the Messenger (Angelos) of the Covenant, "The Lord (Ah-don), whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to whom ye delight in: behold, He shall come, saith the LORD (Jehovah) of Hosts." (Mal. iii.)

"Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared. Beware of Him, and obey His voice, provoke Him not; for He will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in Him. But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries. For mine Angel shall go before thee and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and will cut them off." (Exod xxiii.)

"In all their affliction He was afflicted, and the Angel of his presence saved them." (Isa. lxiii.)

In other places, the Divine One who came down into gracious dealing with man is called "the angel of the Lord" as well as "God," both terms being sometimes used in the same passage indifferently for the same person: thus

"Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire...... And when the Lord saw that He turned aside to see, God called unto him." (Exod. iii.)

So, too, while we read in Exod. xx.

"God spake all these words, saying,—”

person as "the angel of the Lord" in the former, as in the Old Testament Scriptures above quoted? It is not our object to prove that angels were In a multitude of places they always God: no, no. are clearly creature-spirits. Thus, the three that "the angel appeared to Abraham (Gen. xviii.) were of the Lord" (that is, one person of the Godhead) and two angels or creature-spirits.

Our desire is merely to show any who are stumbled at the interpretation that the "Angel" is the Spirit, that the same word is assumed in grace by that Blessed One, who, leaving the Light Inaccessible, appeared, of old, to mortal sight, and even touch. See Gen. xxxii. 24-32, where Jacob wrestled with Him-wrestled with God, "had power with God," not in wrestling-trying that, he came off lamebut he prevailed in obtaining a blessing and a royal name.

There is nothing lowering to the nature of the Spirit to be termed "Angel" by the Son of God, than there is for that Divine One to be termed "Angel" by the Spirit of Prophecy when reference is made in God. In both cases, the word is simply and strictly true and applicable-Messenger or Representative.

In Acts vii. this Divine One is spoken of as the the Old Testament to His coming to do the will of angel-doubtless, the Eternal Word.

"This is he [Moses] that was in the church in the wilderDess with the angel which spake to him in the Mount Sina and our fathers, who received the lively oracles to give unto us."

And so, in other passages.

"And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, and said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord." (Gen. xxii.)

"And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob; And I said, Here am I." "I am the God of Bethel.' (Gen. xxxi.)

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"The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads. " (Gen. xlviii.)

"And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us or for our adversaries ? And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.' (Joshua v.)

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"And the Angel of the Lord appeared unto him [Gideon] and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. And Gideon said unto him, Oh, my Lord, if the Lord be with us, why then has all this befallen us?.... And the Lord looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee?" (Judges vi.)

The following passage in the New Testament is remarkably similar to the above from the Old. In

Acts viii. 26 we read

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"SEVEN " MEANS PERFECTION.

But some may say-The Holy Spirit is one; how then can a plural emblem-stars, angels--be used to show forth the nature of the work or office He has graciously taken?

To this it is replied, For the same reason that the Church, which is one, is represented by sevenseven golden candlesticks. SEVEN, as we were shown at page 169, sets forth, in the Scriptures, perfectness, divine completeness. The Church of God is perfect in His sight.

"By one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified." (Heb. x.)

The Holy Spirit is a perfect enlightener-the Seven Stars; He is the perfect messenger, therefore is He called the Angels of the Seven Churches. And the Seven Candlesticks are the Seven churches, or the One perfect Church.

So far as the saints are concerned, the Holy Spirit is, personally, perfectly present in every church, in a Therefore He has a sevenfold practical sense. personal emblem-angels of the seven churches. I each of the Seven Churches he was regarded as being really as Present as if he were there-in ths: one-only. Thus a seven-fold personal emblem simply sets forth his omni-presence.

But the seven, in emblem-are one, in person. This is rendered very clear by Rev. xxii. 16:

"I, Jesus, have sent mine Angel to testify unto you these things in the Churches."

Who is testifying in the churches? The Spirit "He that hath an ear to hear, let him hear what the Spiri saith unto the Churches.”

"He shall testify of me.".

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