Note 429 — III. INDICATIONS OF THE RITE IN THE BIBLE.
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“For it must be observed, that by the outpouring of the blood, the life which was in it was not destroyed, though it was separated from the organism which before it had quickened: Gen. 4 : 10; comp. Heb. 12 : 24 (παρὰ τὸν Ἅβελ); Apoc. 6 : 10” (Westcott’s Epistles of St. John, p. 34).