Verse 21
D. The final benediction 22:21
This benediction wishes God’s enabling grace on all who read the book.
"As in revelation, so in history: grace shall have the last word!" [Note: Beasley-Murray, p. 350.]
God’s grace makes faith, for the unbelieving reader, and faithfulness, for the believing reader, possible (cf. Revelation 1:4). This benediction is a prayer that all its hearers and readers may respond to the revelation of this book appropriately. It is an unusual way to end an apocalypse, but it was a common way to close a first-century Christian letter (cf. Revelation 1:1).
"We are reminded here again, as in Revelation 1:1-4, that the Apocalypse is broadly conceived of as an epistle, the contents of which are apocalyptic and prophetic in genre (see on Revelation 1:1-3)." [Note: Beale, p. 1156.]
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