Chapter XIV

The Lamb has one hundred and forty thousand brides. St. John saw them on the hill of Sion in a dream, in the new city of Jerusalem. Isaiah speaks of Christ or the Lamb. He says that He was led as a lamb to the slaughter. In Jerusalem was Christ slain. With buffets was His face flayed. He endured all patiently as a lamb. For us He died in Jerusalem. The declaration of St. John, “Behold the Lamb of God,” etc. Who can reckon His generation, that died in Jerusalem? In the New Jerusalem St. John saw the Lamb sitting upon the throne.