Their victory was due to the Blood of the Lamb, and to the Message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.

Yes, and I say to you, Your name is 'Peter--a Rock, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the Powers of the Place of Death shall not prevail over it.

What are we to say, then, in the light of all this? If God is on our side, who can there be against us?

Their

To take the place in this apostolic work, which Judas has abandoned, to go to his proper place."

and that even those angels, who did not keep to their appointed spheres, but left their proper homes, have been kept by him for the judgment of the Great Day in everlasting chains and black darkness.

General references

How, again, can any one get into a strong man's house and carry off his goods, without first securing him? And not till then will he plunder his house.

No man who has got into a strong man's house can carry off his goods, without first securing him; and not till then will he plunder his house.