And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
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Christ, the Lamb, opens the first seal: observe what appeared. A rider on a white horse.
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This thought runs through Revelation 6:6-10.
Revelation 6:8 quoted in popular culture
- Agatha Christie
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- Agent X
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- James Gillray
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- John Hay
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- Katherine Anne Porter
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- Ma Zhongying
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- Paradise Lost
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- Sakutarō Hagiwara
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- Stingers (TV series)
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- Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
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- The Borgias (2011 TV series)
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- The Stand (miniseries)
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- Twin Peaks
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Wikiquote match for "pale horse" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "pale horse". Snippet: circle of pain, a circle of suffering. Woe to the ones who behold the pale horse . Dale Cooper: [reading Harold Smith's suicide note.] "J'ai une âme solitaire