He [a]that overcometh, shall be clothed in white array, and I will not put out his Name out of the (A)book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his Angels.

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  1. Revelation 3:5 The conclusion standing upon a promise and a commandment as before.

The one who is victorious(A) will, like them, be dressed in white.(B) I will never blot out the name of that person from the book of life,(C) but will acknowledge that name before my Father(D) and his angels.

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[a]And the voice which I heard from heaven, spake unto me again, and said, Go, and take the little book which is open in the hand of the Angel, which standeth upon the sea, and upon the earth.

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  1. Revelation 10:8 The other part of this Chapter, concerning the particular calling of Saint John to the receiving of the prophecy following which is enjoined him, first by sign in three verses, then in plain words in the last verse. Unto the setting forth of the sign belong these things: That Saint John is taught from heaven to demand the book of the Prophecy in this verse: for these motions and desires God doth inspire: that demanding the book, he is charged to take it in a figurative manner, the use whereof also is expounded, the ninth verse, (as in the second Chapter of Ezekiel and the ninth verse) whence this similitude is borrowed: lastly, for that Saint John at the commandment of Christ took the book, and found by experience that the same as proceeding from Christ was most sweet, but in that it foretelleth the afflictions of the Church it was most bitter unto his spirit.

Then the voice that I had heard from heaven(A) spoke to me once more: “Go, take the scroll(B) that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”

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27 And there shall enter into it none unclean thing, neither whatsoever worketh abomination or lies: but they which are written in the Lamb’s (A)book of life.

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27 Nothing impure will ever enter it, nor will anyone who does what is shameful or deceitful,(A) but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s book of life.(B)

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