VERSE 1. And I saw, and, lo, the Lamb standing on mount Zion, and with him a hundred forty and four thousand, having his Father's name written on their foreheads.

"And I saw," signifies a manifestation concerning the future separation of the good from the evil before the Last Judgment: "and, lo, the Lamb standing on mount Zion," signifies the presence of the Lord in heaven and in the church in order to separate the good from the evil and accomplish the judgment: "and with him a hundred forty and four thousand," signifies according to truths in their whole extent: "having his Father's name written on their foreheads," signifies those truths according to the acknowledgment of His Divine from love.