Revelation 14:2-4
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
2 And I heard a voice from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder; the voice I heard was like the sound of harpers playing on their harps, 3 and they sing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the hundred and forty-four thousand who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are chaste;[a][b] it is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes; these have been redeemed from mankind as first fruits for God and the Lamb,
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- Revelation 14:4 Greek virgins
- 14.4 Although tradition tends to take this literally, the context and Old Testament metaphor suggest that it means they have kept free from idolatry.
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