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```164_naman xr.state; forJohn,inthenext verses, carries us mto theeternal state of the righteous."12th verse, Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is theLamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, andwisdom, and strength, and honor, and glory, and blessing.And every creature which is in heaven, and on theearth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea,and all that are in them, heard Lsayinghgllessing, andhonor, and glory, and power, be unto that sittethupon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever.And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four andtwenty elders fell down and worshipped him 'that livethforever and ever." Nothingcan be more evident thanthat John here saw the whole family of the redeemed,as they will be after the first resurrection; for he givesthe several situations of every partof the whole familyasthey actually were, that is, in body,or the situationof their bodies at that very time when he waswriting,"every creature," that is, in person, in their bodies, asthey will be after the resurrection; not all mankind, assome vainly suppose, but those who are redeemed, orwho may hereafter be redeemed, " out of every kindred,and tongue, and and nation." See our text. Ifpeople,it had been " all nations," dw., he would not have said,"out of," &.c. Therefore we must take the whole inconnection. But John saw every creatine whose bodiesthen were some of them inheaven, as Enoch and Elijah;every creature who was then alive on the earth, like himselfand brethren; every body of the saints that hadslept and been buried under ground, or in the sea, andall the saints who wereyet in the loins of their fathers.Inoue word, he saw the whole general assembly, andchurch of the first bom, whose name were written inthe Lamb's book of life. These four beasts are the sameliving creatures which Isaiah saw when he had a viewof the of God.glozy lsa. vi. 1-3, "In the year thatking Uzzi died, I saw also the Lord sitting' upon athrone, high and lilted up, and his train lilled the temple.*uve it stood the scrap ims; each one had six wings:twain he covere his face, and with twain he