The lamb opened the first four of the seven seals one by one, each time resulting in a rider appearing in the row. The four riders each had a different weapon, which they used to kill a quarter of the people in total. In the lower portion of the frame, the inscription reads:
I looked, and there before me was a white horse! Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he rode out as a conqueror bent on conquest.
In the upper portion of the frame appears, rather mistakenly, the text corresponding to the next scene:
I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained about the lamb.
