“These are they who had not been contaminated with women; for they are virgins. These are the attendants upon the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These had been redeemed from among men, an offering of firstfruits for the Deity and for the Lamb. And in their mouth had been found no guile; for they are faultless in the presence of the throne of the Deity”.
“No one was able to learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth”.
“And I heard a voice of harpers harping with their harps; and they sing as it were a New Song in the presence of the throne, and in the presence of the four living ones, and of the elders; and no one was able to leant the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth” — Ver. 2,3.
“And I heard a sound from the heaven as a sound of many waters, and as a sound of loud thunder. ”
“And I looked, and behold, a Lamb stood upon the Mount Zion, and with him 144,000, having the Name of his Father, which had been written upon their foreheads” — Verse 1.
By comparing the above with the Common Version the reader will see the difference for himself. I have found no benefit in the labors of the “recent editors” who have undertaken to mend the Greek text. They seem to think nothing of “taking away from the words of the book of this prophecy;” and of “adding” thereto — Ch. 22:18,19. We have examples of this editorial recklessness in the chapter before us. The first occurs in a note upon to onoma, “the name” in verse 1.
TRANSLATION
“The Time of the End,” (Dan. 8:17; 11:40; 12:1-4) which commences from the Quadrennial Epoch, A.D. 1860-’4, and terminates A.D. 1904-’8\
* See note Vol. 2, pp. 10-11.
THE SIXTH SPECIAL DIVISION OF THE
SEVENTH TRUMPET
ACT VI — SIXTH VIAL
PART 3
EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
THIRD GENERAL DIVISION
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The Little Open Scroll