THE CHURCH FIRMLY ESTABLISHED
CHAPTER VII
1. After these things, I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth that they should not blow upon the earth, nor upon the sea, nor on any tree.
2. And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun. having the sign of the living God; and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea,
3. Saying: Hurt not the earth, nor the sea, nor the trees, till we sign the servants of our God in their foreheads.
4. And I heard the number of them that were signed, an hundred forty-four thousand were signed, of every tribe of the children of Israel.
5. Of the tribe of Juda we^e twelve thousand signed; of the tribe of Ruben, twelve thousand signed; of the tribe of Gad, twelve thousand signed;
6. Of the tribe of Aser, twelve thousand signed; of the tribe of Nephthali, twelve thousand signed; of the tribe of Manasses, twelve thousand signed.
7. Of the tribe of Simeon, twelve thousand signed; of the tribe of Levi, twelve thousand signed; of the tribe of Isaachar, twelve thousand signed:
8. Of the tribe of Zabulon, twelve thousand signed; of the tribe of Joseph, twelve thousand signed; of the tribe of Benjamin, twelve thousand signed.
