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 {The number of the sealed} (	on arithmon t(936e)
esphragismen(936e)). Accusative case object of (886b)ousa and genitive
of the perfect passive articular participle of sphragiz(935c). He
did not see the sealing or count them himself, but only heard. {A
hundred and forty and four thousand} (hekaton tesserakonta
tessares chiliades). Symbolical, of course, and not meant to be
a complete number of the sealed (or saved) even in that
generation, let alone for all time. The number connotes
perfection (Alford), 12x12x1000 = a hundred and forty-four
thousands (chiliades,  5:11 ). Nominative absolute, not
agreeing in case either with arithmon (accusative) or
esphragismen(936e) (genitive). So as to the case of
esphragismenoi. {Out of every tribe of the children of Israel}
(ek p(8373)(8873) phul(8873) hui(936e) Isra(886c)). There are two opposite views
here, one taking the sealed as referring only to Jews (either
actual Jews as a remnant or just Jewish Christians), the other
including Gentiles as well as Jewish Christians, that is the true
Israel as in  2:9  3:9ff.  and like Paul in Galatians and Romans.
This is the more probable view and it takes the twelve tribes in
a spiritual sense. But in either view there remains the
difficulty about names of the tribes. The list is not
geographical, since Levi is included, but Dan is omitted and
Manasseh put in his place, though he as the son of Joseph is
included in Joseph. Irenaeus suggested that Antichrist was
expected to come from the tribe of Dan and hence the omission
here. There are various lists of the tribes in the O.T. ( Ge
35:22f.  46:8ff.,49  Ex 1:1ff.  Nu 1:2  13:4ff  26:34  De
27:11f.  33:6ff.  Jos 13-22  Jud 5  1Ch 2-8  12:24ff.  27:16ff.  Eze 48 ) and given in various orders. In  1Ch 7:12  both Dan and
Zebulon are omitted. Joseph is given here in place of Ephraim.
The distribution is equal (12,000) to each tribe.

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