shall fall] Many of them shall suffer martyrdome that the triall of their faith, and the purification of their hearts, and works, may be made in this world, by the fire of afflictions, to their everlasting salvation, Daniel 12:10.
them] Or, by them.
even to the time] Determined by the counsell of God to put an end to these persecutions, Matthew 24:6. is a most oratorious exposition of this phrase.