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 2 Q. What are we to understand by the four beasts, spoken of in the same verse?

A. They are afigurative expressions, used by the Revelator, John, in describing bheaven, the cparadise of God, the dhappiness of man, and of beasts, and of creeping things, and of the fowls of the air; that which is spiritual being in the likeness of that which is temporal; and that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual; the espirit of man in the likeness of his person, as also the spirit of the fbeast, and every other creature which God has created.

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  33  For man is aspirit. The elements are eternal, and spirit and element, inseparably connected, receive a fulness of joy;

  7  And the Gods formed man from the dust of the ground, and took his cspirit (that is, the man's spirit), and put it into him; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

  24  For all old things shall pass away, and all things shall become new, even the heaven and the earth, and all the fulness thereof, both men and beasts, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea;

  19  And out of the ground I, the Lord God, formed every abeast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and commanded that they should come unto Adam, to see what he would call them; and they were also living souls; for I, God, breathed into them the breath of life, and commanded that whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that should be the name thereof.

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  7  And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the dbreath of life; and man became a living soul.

  10  A righteous man regardeth the life of his abeast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

  6  And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four cbeasts full of eyes before and behind.

  26  For the atonement satisfieth the demands of his justice upon all those who have not the law given to them, that they are delivered from that awful monster, death and hell, and the devil, and the lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment; and they are restored to that God who gave them gbreath, which is the Holy One of Israel.

  8  We cannot see it; but when our bodies are purified we shall see that it is all bmatter.

  63  And behold, all things have their alikeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me.

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