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"ref": "1876, John Ruskin, “Letter LXIV”, in Fors Clavigera. Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain, volume VI, Orpington, Kent: George Allen, →OCLC, page 116:",
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"ref": "1985, Donald A. Hagner, Apocalyptic Motifs in the Gospel of Matthew: Continuity and Discontinuity, page 92:",
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"ref": "2002, Peter W. Smith, In the Day of the Lord: The Exciting and Promised Fulfillment, page 7:",
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"ref": "1919, Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, Gun Fodder: The Diary of Four Years of War, Little, Brown, page 276:",
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"ref": "2001, Richard A. Horsley, Hearing the Whole Story: The Politics of Plot in Mark's Gospel, page 122:",
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"ref": "2010, Philip Leroy Culbertson, Elaine Mary Wainwright, Bible in Popular Culture, page 184:",
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