And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

Ver. 3. A new song] See Trapp on " Rev 5:9 "

But the hundred, &c.] To whom alone it was given to understand the mysteries of God's kingdom. Others could not skill of it.

From the earth] i.e. From the Antichristian rout and rabble. These dunghill cocks meddle not with that jewel, the joy of faith, but speak evil of what they know not.

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