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This passes then from redemption out of the really apostate earth, when redemption from amid profession was necessary, to the dealing of God, first in testimony, and then in judgment, with evil in all its forms as to men, the beast being reserved in judgment for a fuller description. This was rather the judgment of men and their corruption under those circumstances, the Lamb’s open war and victory being another thing. This is God’s judgment of the state of things; not the Lamb’s war with hostile power.

We have here then a general prospective view of God’s dealings with the subject—apostasy; for subject it is to Him: first, saving His saints out of it,