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  "title": "Armageddon as the measure of an election",
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      "exact": "I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election.",
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  "body_markdown": "Armageddon belongs to the vision of the sixth bowl in Revelation. Evil spirits gather the world’s kings for the great divine battle (16:13–14); verse 16 names their gathering-place Armageddon. In the [King James Version, Revelation 16:12–16](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10), the place-name and the battle occur in separate verses: Chesterton’s phrase condenses them rather than quoting a biblical title. The allusion gives political ideals an ultimate horizon against which a particular parliamentary contest can seem provisional. It does not supply a prediction of the end of the world or identify an election with a specific prophetic event.\n\nThe next sentence’s baby leaping at a mere mention also resembles Luke 1:41–44: the unborn John leaps when Elizabeth hears Mary’s greeting. There is a possible comic transfer of sacred recognition to infant party enthusiasm. But Chesterton places his baby on his mother’s knee, not in her womb; this remains a suggestive echo, not a demonstrable quotation. Both readings use Gutenberg #10’s modern electronic King James text, rather than an inspected 1611 printing; neither establishes which Bible edition Chesterton had in mind.",
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    "Armageddon is an explicit reference; the connection to Luke’s leaping infant is only possible.",
    "No claim is made about a particular school of apocalyptic interpretation or Chesterton’s personal biblical edition."
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        "question": "What does Armageddon contribute to the contrast with a General Election, and is the leaping babe another biblical echo?"
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