621. 'These are they who are following the Lamb wherever He goes' signifies that they have been conjoined with the Lord through love and faith directed to Him, because they have lived in accordance with His precepts. That these things are signified is plain from these words of the Lord:- He loves Me who does My precepts, and I will love him, and come to him, and make My abode with him John xiv 20-23.
And elsewhere:- The Shepherd of the sheep, when He leads forth His Own sheep, goes forward with them, and the sheep follow Him, for they know His voice; My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me John x 4, 5, 27. * So also AE 863:2; but AC 3081:4 has 'Judah', as in Hebrew. ** The Original Edition has meis (my), so also has AE 863:11; but AC 5236:5 and 5897:7 have ejus (thereof) as in Hebrew.
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