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Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, Diego Velázquez

Revelation 14:2

Diego Velázquez, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1618 · National Gallery, London · Public domainDiego Velázquez, Saint John the Evangelist on Patmos, c. 1618, National Gallery, London

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Revelation 14:2 (WEB)

I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.

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Ambrose of Milan

  • “…companies, though it is for the saints alone, to attain to them, and to sing praise to God (as in the prophet’s words we hear of those who are harping and saying: “For great are Thy marvellous works, O Lord God Almighty, just and true are Thy ways, Thou King of the nations; who shall not fear and magnify Thy…” — editor's note: Rev. xiv. 2.

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Cited together with

  • Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 27.

  • Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 27.

  • Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 27.

  • Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 27.

  • Cited together in Of Holy Virginity Chapter 27.

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  • Revelation 14:2 takes up the words of Ezekiel 43:2 (11 words in common).

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