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The Lamb (to arnion). See Rev 5:6; Rev 7:17; Rev 12:11; Rev 13:8 and is in contrast with the anarthrous arnion in Rev 13:11. This proleptic vision of the Lamb “standing on the mount Zion” (hestos epi to oros Siōn, second perfect active participle neuter of histēmi with epi and accusative) is reasoning after the visions of the two beasts. Mount Zion is the site of the new city of God (Heb 12:22), the Jerusalem above (Gal 4:26), the seat of the Messianic Kingdom whether heaven or the new earth (Rev 21; 22). These victors have the name of the Lamb and God upon their foreheads as in Rev 3:12; Rev 22:4, in place of the mark of the beast above (Rev 13:16; Rev 14:11). This seal protects them (Rev 9:4).
A hundred and forty and four thousand (hekaton tesserakonta tessares chiliades). “Thousands” literally (chilias feminine word for a thousand and so echousai feminine plural). For the 144,000 see Rev 7:5, Rev 7:8, though some scholars seek a distinction somehow.