ACC ~ Revelation 7 v16

THE SACRAMENTS PRESERVE THE SAINTS. TYCONIUS: They will not hunger because they are fed by the living Bread. He said, “I am the living Bread who comes came down from heaven.”Nor will they thirst, for they will drink from a cup so excellent that it will be for them what the Truth said, “Whoever believes in me shall never thirst,” and again, “Whoever drinks from the water that I shall give him, it will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” Nor will the sun strike them, nor will they be burned by the deadly heat of its fire. God promised something similar to his church through Isaiah, “A shelter from the storm, shade from the heat.” He proclaims that the strength of his sacraments will be strong in those who belong to him and that they will not be vexed by the heat of temptation. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 7.16.

THE SAINTS WILL NO LONGER BE TEMPTED. OECUMENIUS: “They shall hunger no more, nor shall they thirst any more.” For, while formerly those from the Gentiles came through every trial, now they will be satisfied with countless blessings. “Nor,” it says, “will the sun strike them.” The sun is used figuratively by some writers of holy Scripture to refer to temptations. For example, the prophet said, “The sun will not strike you by day, nor the moon by night,” or the Evangelist, who wrote that the shining sun scorched that seed which sprouted on the stony soil, interpreting the sun to be temptations. And so also in this present passage, it says that temptation would no longer harm them. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 7.9-17.

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