Brief Exposition (Stanley) n. 90

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90. In order that I might also be assured and convinced that those who have confirmed themselves in the present-day belief in justification by faith alone are also meant by the dragon, I was allowed to see many thousands of them assembled together, and then they appeared at a distance like a dragon with a long tail, seemingly full of spikes like thorns, signifying falsities. Once also there appeared a still greater dragon which, with raised back, lifted his tail even towards heaven, in the effort to draw down the stars from thence. The stars there signify truths.


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