Come to Pass (To)

To happen, to befall, to come about.

“What thou hast spoken is come to pass.”—Jer. xxxii. 24.

“It came to pass [εγενετo] in those days that there went out a decree.”—Luke ii. 1.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.