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VII. 1

Papias thus speaks, word for word: To some of them [angels] He gave dominion over the arrangement of the world, and He commissioned them to exercise their dominion well. And he says, immediately after this: but it happened that their arrangement came to nothing. 2

  1. This extract is made from Andreas Caesariensis, [Bishop of Caesarea in Cappodocia, circiter, A.D. 500].  ↩

  2. That is, that government of the world's affairs was a failure. An ancient writer takes taxis to mean the arraying of the evil angels in battle against God.  ↩

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