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Cassiodorus — on Rev 1:4

Patristic A.D. 583

Cassiodorus · c. A.D. 487–583

“him that is. He wanted His eternity to be denoted by the present tense. This use of present time "today" is acknowledged to be peculiar to the divine Scriptures in this sense of perpetuity.”

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