82. 19 The goats mentioned in Daniel and Matthew mean people who are devoted to the modern-day view that faith is what justifies us.
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74. 17 The reference in Matthew 24:21 to “a great affliction such as has never existed since the world began and will never exist again” means an attack by falsities and the resulting end — the devastation — of all truth in the Christian denominations of today.


