...one, and to be able to distinguish and separate the servants of God from those who are not. 346. " And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels,...Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees," signifies, the preventing and withholding by the Lord of a nearer and stronger influx into inferior...

...signifies, who alone knows all and every one, and can distinguish aud separate them one from another: "And he cried with a loud voice to the four angels,...sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, uor the trees," signifies, the preventing mid withholding by the Lord of a nearer and sironger influx...

...saw God's merciful restraint, for the time, of any damage- that might come to his Church. VII. 2, 3. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having...sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I saw another Angel, even the great Angel of the Covenant, Christ Jesus, ascending up from the eastern...

...the earth ; and another angel ascends from the east, having the seal of the living God; and he cries with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was...sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." The mark or the seal, mentioned in either place, questionless denotes the divine image, impressed on...

...(John vi. 27.) To this use of the seal there is a more remarkable allusion in the Book of Revelations: "And I saw another angel ascending from the east,...sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." (Rev vii. 2, 3.) Amulets, fetiches, and other instruments of idolatry, were frequently made of glass...

...(John vi. 27.) To this use of the seal there is a more remarkable allusion in the Book of Revelations: "And I saw another angel ascending from the east,...sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." (Rev vii. 2, 3.) Amulets, fetiches, and other instruments of idolatry, were frequently made of glass...

...carried forward by the power of love to the | sion of everlasting joy. For the Epistle. Rev. vii. 2. ND I saw another angel ascending from the east, having...sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed ; and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four...

...that is, the four cardinal points, "holding the four winds of the earth." And the seal bearing angel, "cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom...sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." ver. 2. 3. The persons to be sealed are one hundred and forty four thousand, of all the tribes of the...

...be its apparent cause; but, perhaps, a holier purpose on the part of God may be its true solution. (Rev. vii. 2.) "And I saw another angel ascending...Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads." Men may despise the servants of Christ,...

...living God : and he cried with a loc 1 voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to tart tb« 524 earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither...sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. And I heard the number of them which were sealed : and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four...