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The word "falling away" is a "defection from truth (properly, the state) ("apostasy"):—falling away, forsake. (Strong's Concordance NT#646)  In our English dictionary, "apostasy" is abandonment or renunciation of a religious or political belief. ORIGIN Middle English: from ecclesiastical Latin apostasia, from a late Greek alteration of Greek apostasis ‘defection.’  lucifer (Satan, that old serpent, the Devil)

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