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D&C 77:2 · Revelation 4:6

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 77:2
"Q. What are we to understand by the four beasts, spoken of in the same verse? A. They are figurative expressions, used by the Revelator, John, in describing heaven, the paradise of God, the happiness of man"
New Testament Revelation 4:6
"and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind."

'four beasts' stands at thirteen distinct frozen verses in the corpus, eleven in the Revelation and two in this section, D&C 77:2 and 77:3. The section's answer contains a claim the vision does not make and then withdraws part of it in the next verse: the beasts are called figurative expressions at 77:2 and are then said to be limited to four individual beasts at 77:3. Both statements stand in the section's own text and the page reports both without harmonising them. Registered at the 2026-08-11 editorial review. Minted asserted_by: source at the 2026-08-10 editorial review.