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Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904) · Public Domain

Consumption (Hastings' Dictionary)

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898–1904)· Public Domain

In Lv 26", Dt 28-', ' the ref. is to the disease (see MEDICINE). But in Is 10- (p''':) and 10^ 28^ (n^j, RV ' consummation,' as Dn 9-'' A V) the meaning is ' thorough ending.' So Foxe {Act. and Mon. iii. 56) says, ' Christ shall sit . . . at the ri<'ht hand of God, tUl the consumption of the world.' J.HASTINGS.

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