One heart and one soul

With reference to Acts 4:32—Now, although, according to the pattern in the Mosaic Tabernacle, this living altar of gold has four horns, answering to the four living ones, and four corners of the square, but one spirit pervades the whole. The multitude of the true believers which compose the altar "are of one heart and of one soul" (Acts iv. 32). In singleness of heart -- "with one mind and one mouth they glorified the Deity, even the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ" (Acts ii. 46; Rom. xv. 6). With this spirit of unanimity, resulting from their being sealed in their foreheads with the seal of the living God, they cause their prayers to ascend as burning odors -- as one voice out of the four horns -- and not a distinct and discordant voice from each horn. In "the vision" there was only "one voice." It was the voice of the altar of gold, for it proceeded from the four horns thereof. This voice of prayer said, "Loose the four angels;" and, in the answer to the prayer addressed "to the sixth angel, that had the trumpet," "the four angels were loosed."