Even more significantly, the stringed musicians were accompanying the ultimate choir, the martyrs, now pictured as heavenly singers on whose foreheads were written the names of both the Father and the Lamb. Appropriate to their role and setting, John says they sang a new song in the presence of the entire primary heavenly personages, thus before the throne [in this case of both Father and Son, chs. 4–5] and before the four living creatures and the elders (also chs. 4–5). At this point the modern