521. Verse 16. And the four-and-twenty elders, who sit before God on their thrones, fell upon their faces and adored God, signifies the acknowledgment by all the angels of heaven, that the Lord is the God of heaven and earth, and the highest adoration. By "the four-and-twenty elders who sit on thrones" are signified all in heaven, specifically in the spiritual heaven (n. 233, 251); and by "falling upon their faces and adoring God" is signified the highest adoration, and acknowledgment that the Lord is the God of heaven and earth.