470 ARervetation of Apocalypfe. C A P.14. the falvation ofhis fervants, butrands, as it were, in battell aray ready to defend them : covering the woman and her fcattercd feed under his wings, left they fhould take any harm from their enemies. .Mount Sion upon which the Lamb (lands, as it were, onhis watch- tower, is the Church it felf, which ftandeth firmly like Mount Sion, againft all the force of Adverfaries. Before it was theTemple, and the Holy Altar, but yet a fmall hidingplace, Chap. i t.t. After that it was a Solitarydefart, becaufe it carried no Tightly thew upon earth, Chap. 12. 6, 14. Now it is called the Hill of Sion, becaufe it con- tinueth invincible in the midft of thefe waves, which is a no- table comfort againft either the fmalneffe or deformitie of the Church. e4nd With him an hundredforty four thoufand. This is the fame troope, which was before of thofe who were fcaled, Chap. 7. 4, Aretas thinks it to be a diverfe one, becaufe the Relative Article is wanting ; but that is wont to be omitted in matters that are fuf- ficiently known, as thewoman fpeaks, Iohn 4. 25. I know that Me": fias cometh, who is called Chrift; not Omeofiar,but McJas; and many filch fpeeches are there. Surely thefemen, betides that they agree in the number,have a name allo Written in theirforeheads ; now what is this elfe, but to befealed ? betides, theyfing a fang allo, which no max could learn betides them,verf.3. They are therefore chofen out of the whole company ofthofe that {hall perifh, to whom alone Chrift im- parteth the favingknowledge ofhimfelf, during the time of thofe af- flic`tions of the Church. Wherefore they are the fame in all things with thofe fealedones,as alto with the Temple that was meafured,and thewoman that fled into the Wilderneffe,and they are to be referred to that time ofthe feventh Chapter.Hence therfore we may perceive what a goodly train the woman had in the Wilderneffe,in howgreat number alfo theSaints were flocking together in the Templewith the two Prophets, Chap.11.t,2. Though then the Saints be exceeding few, if they be compared with that huge company that poffeffeth the Holy City and the Court, yet as there were ofold [even thoufandmen that the Worldknew not of, who didnever bow their kneeto 73aa1; So were there longago in Meurt Sian,a hundredforty andfour thoufandin the midft ofthole Taft ruines of the Church, who when all the reft of the world ran after the Dragon, and the Beat, did converfe alwayes to- gether with the Larnb,never departing from his fide. Having the name of his Father. Aretas Complutenf. and another Copy read', Having his name, and the name of his Father ; So depth alfo
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