world: ‘Behold, the Lamb upon the throne. Crown him with many crowns! To him be the glory for ever and ever!’ The phrase ‘all things together under’ translates a single Greek word with a vivid usage in Greek mathematics. When the Greeks wished to add a series of numbers together, they habitually listed these, rather as we still do (assuming no calculator is to hand), by writing them one under the other in a column. However, whereas we today tend to draw a line at the foot of the list, and write the