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But before this he had already devoted to the Revelation another treatment, a rather arbitrary recasting of the commentary of Saint Victorinus, with whose chiliastic views he was not in accord, substituting for the chiliastic conclusion a spiritualizing exposition of his own, supplying an introduction, and making certain changes in the text.
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The moon had sunk below the black crest of the mountains and the land, seen through eyes that had grown accustomed to the absence of light, looked primeval, as if no man had ever trespassed before.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.
And he had a feeling -- thanks to the girl -- that things would get worse before they got better.
Twenty years before a group of Easterners had bought out the Haskell claims in the rocky hills south of Grass Valley.
Facing the forest now, she who had not dared to enter it before, walked between two trees at random and headed in what she believed was the direction of the pool.
Where before had she felt or dreamt or imagined such a scene??
She had to get away from here before this demoniac possession swallowed up the liquid of her eyes and sank into the fibers of her brain, depriving her of reason and sight.
Joyce had seen him like this once before -- more than once, actually, but on one particularly memorable occasion.
The cook, Mateo Garcia, had arrived there long before the herd.
They trailed him across the wide hallway to the parlor, four roughly garbed and tough-looking men who probably had never before ventured into such a house.
He had to make Jess talk, and he had to do it before Stacey Black got curious and came to investigate.
As luck had it, he had not gone twenty feet in the street before Pat appeared.
While five minutes ago the place had presented a scene of easy revelry, with Gyp Carmer a prominent figure, it was now as somnolent and dull as the day before payday.
He had not covered a hundred yards before a gun crashed from somewhere behind.
Greg climbed into the cockpit feeling as if he had never been in one before.
Greg had the stick forward and the throttle up before he heard the two `` Rogers ''.
There had been a good second or two during which my muffler had been blowing out, and now I was certain I'd seen her somewhere before.
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and Robinson Roy, who had gone down this line ten minutes before to set a new depth record for the free dive, was already back on the surface.
It is already difficult to recall how little we knew before the Trial of what had been done to the Jews of Europe.
Finally, just as no different issues are posed for thoughtful analysis by the foreshortening of time that may yet pass before the end of human life on this earth, but only stimulation and alarm to the imagination, the same thing must be said in connection with the question of what we may perhaps already be doing, by human action, to accelerate this end.
The Ainus were a primitive people, already living on the island before the principal ancestors of the Japanese came from Southern Asia.
She had changed into a cocktail dress, and the whole evening should have been before her, but already she was beginning to get a tight feeling at the back of her neck.
I felt myself tremble, thinking of the diamond light of that beauty I had held a few moments before, and I wanted to run down there and halt, if I could, that frenetic pirouette, catch the boy in the moment of his savagery, and save a glimmer, a remnant, of that which I remembered, but I knew it was already too late.
He had already become used to Hesperus' snapping back answers to questions almost before Jack could get them asked.
However, the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire interprets events and sources differently, believing that Alboin married Chlothsind when already a king in or shortly before 561, the year of Chlothar's death.
al-Bakri, writing in 1068, before their apogee, already calls them the al-Murabitun, but does not clarify the reasons for it.
While the older men have already had a life of professional and personal experience before the war, Bäumer and the men of his age have had little life experience or time for personal growth.
He had been well educated, and was versed in grammar and rhetoric, and had already, while still a young man, and before reaching the episcopate, given proof to those who dwelt with him of his wisdom and acumen " ( Soz., II, xvii ).
However, the most important influence on Bauhaus was modernism, a cultural movement whose origins lay as far back as the 1880s, and which had already made its presence felt in Germany before the World War, despite the prevailing conservatism.
The design innovations commonly associated with Gropius and the Bauhaus — the radically simplified forms, the rationality and functionality, and the idea that mass-production was reconcilable with the individual artistic spirit — were already partly developed in Germany before the Bauhaus was founded.
Although neither the Nazi Party nor Hitler himself had a cohesive architectural policy before they came to power in 1933, Nazi writers like Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg had already labeled the Bauhaus " un-German " and criticized its modernist styles, deliberately generating public controversy over issues like flat roofs.
According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, " a comparison of the Masoretic text with the Septuagint throws some light on the last phase in the history of the origin of the Book of Jeremiah, inasmuch as the translation into Greek was already under way before the work on the Hebrew book had come to an end ...
This original " book of saviours ," made up of the stories of Ehud, Jael and parts of Gideon, had already been enlarged and transformed into " wars of Yahweh " before being given the final Deuteronomistic revision.
Although Holly had already begun to become disillusioned with Norman Petty before meeting Maria Elena, it was through her and her aunt Provi, the head of Latin American music at Peer-Southern, that he began to fully realize what was going on with his manager, who was paying the band's royalties into his own company's account.
As Adalvard was back in Bremen already by 1069 and is mentioned as one of Adam's sources of information, it would have been expected that word about Birka's destruction had reached also Adam before he published his work half a decade later.
Through constant motion, the blitzkrieg attempts to keep its enemy off-balance, making it difficult to respond effectively at any given point before the front has already moved on.
The notation was introduced by Andreas von Ettingshausen in 1826, although the numbers were already known centuries before that ( see Pascal's triangle ).
Macbeth had already seen a hallucination before killing Duncan: a knife hovering in the air.
With the battle already turning badly, the Tatar forces panicked, the Khan fled the field and the Tatars retreated, but not before taking Khmelnytsky hostage.
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were the Henry Ford and Louis Chevrolet of their times, who capitalized on ideas already commonly known before they started in the business.
The territory was created in 1969 by the Coral Sea Islands Act ( before, the area was considered part of Queensland ) and extended in 1997 to include Elizabeth and Middleton Reefs nearly 800 km further South, already in the Tasman Sea.
In the body, chromium ( VI ) is reduced by several mechanisms to chromium ( III ) already in the blood before it enters the cells.
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