Revelation 7:5

• §1138Article 1 · Celebrating the Church's LiturgyRead at vatican.va

  “…(the four living beings), the servants of the Old and New Covenants (the twenty-four elders), the new People of God (the one hundred and forty-four thousand),” — Catechism footnote: Cf. Rev 4- 5; 7:1-8; 14:1; Isa 6:2-3.

Irenaeus of Lyons

• Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies V.30Book V

  “This, too, is the reason that this tribe is not reckoned in the Apocalypse along with those which are saved.” — editor's note: Rev. vii. 5–7. [The Danites (though not all) corrupted the Hebrew church and the Levitical priesthood, by image-worship, (Judg. xviii.), and forfeited the…

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Jerome

• Jerome, Against Jovinianus Book 1

  “…He goeth: for they were redeemed from among men, first-fruits to God and to the Lamb, and in their mouth was found no guile, and they are without spot.”Out of each tribe, the tribe of Dan excepted, the place of which is taken by the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand virgins who have been sealed are spoken of as…” — editor's note: Rev. vii. 5 sq.

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Cited together with

• Revelation 17:8

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.30.

• Revelation 22:19

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.30.

• Jeremiah 8:16

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.30.

• Matthew 8:11

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.30.

• 1 Thessalonians 5:3

  Cited together in Against Heresies V.30.

Quotes

• Joshua 20:8

  Revelation 7:5 takes up the words of Joshua 20:8 (8 words in common).

• Joshua 21:7

  Revelation 7:5 takes up the words of Joshua 21:7 (8 words in common).

• 1 Chronicles 6:63

  Revelation 7:5 takes up the words of 1 Chronicles 6:63 (8 words in common).