{The Lamb} (	o arnion). See  5:6  7:17  12:11  13:8  and
is in contrast with the anarthrous arnion in  13:11 . This
proleptic vision of the Lamb "standing on the mount Zion"
(hestos epi to oros Si(936e), second perfect active participle
neuter of hist(886d)i with epi and accusative) is reasoning after
the visions of the two beasts. Mount Zion is the site of the new
city of God ( Heb 12:22 ), the Jerusalem above ( Ga 4:26 ), the
seat of the Messianic Kingdom whether heaven or the new earth
( Re 21  22 ). These victors have the name of the Lamb and God
upon their foreheads as in  3:12  22:4 , in place of the mark of
the beast above ( 13:16  14:11 ). This seal protects them
( 9:4 ). {A hundred and forty and four thousand} (hekaton
tesserakonta tessares chiliades). "Thousands" literally
(chilias feminine word for a thousand and so echousai
feminine plural). For the 144,000 see  7:5,8 , though some
scholars seek a distinction somehow.