Twentieth_Century(i)
13 Then one of the Councillors turned to me and said 'Who are these who are robed in white? and whence did they come?'
14 'My Lord,' I answered, 'it is you who know.' 'These,' he said, 'are they who come through the Great Persecution; they washed their robes white in the blood of the Lamb.
15 And therefore it is that they are before the throne of God, and are serving him day and night in his Temple; and he who is seated on the throne will shelter them.