Footnote

a Many years earlier, the book entitled “The Battle of Armageddon,” published in the year 1897, said, on page 592, paragraph 1: “A psalm describing this period declares:​—‘A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee [the faithful saints, members of the body of Christ, whose elect members will now shortly be completed.]’​—Psalm 91:7.”