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Rev 7:5-6. Δώδεκα χιλιάδες, twelve thousand) We ought to take the twelve thousand twelve times with such exactness, that they may amount altogether not to 143 or 145, but to 144 thousands. Round numbers often have an exact value: see Jer 52:30, where a total of 4600 souls is made up of numbers by no means round, preceding in the same place. Perhaps there are so many heads or fathers (just as in Rom 11:4, men, not souls, are enumerated), together with their posterity. [The twelve tribes [die zwölf Stämme] are mentioned by six pairs.-Not. Crit.]