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Scripture quotations marked NIV are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version^®. NIV^®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations used in Discussion Guide are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental and beyond the intent of either the author or publisher.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rivers, Francine, date

As sure as the dawn / Francine Rivers.

  p. cm. — (Mark of the lion)

ISBN 1-4143-0463-3

1. Church history—Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600—Fiction.

2. Rome—History—Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D.—Fiction. I. Title. II. Series: Rivers, Francine, date Mark of the lion.
PS3568.I83165A9 1995
813’.54—dc20          95-1034

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