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 of heaven: still it is a modification of what was before seen. It is not the Lord returned in judgment—then he is the Son of Man; and here we have, subsequent to this, the patience of the saints under the prevailing power of the beast and his image, and afterwards “blessed are the dead,” and the Son of Man reaping the harvest of the earth. Moreover, we have a new song sung before the throne, and before the elders, which song none but the “hundred and forty and four thousand” could learn; so that we are not dissociated from heavenly places, for this throne was set in heaven. Yet Zion was not the place of the temple, but the place of royalty: but first of grace,—the place of