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John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 5:10

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.And hast made them — The redeemed. So they speak of themselves also in the third person, out of deep self-abasement.They shall reign over the earth — The new earth: herewith agree the golden crowns of the elders. The reign of the saints in general follows, under the trumpet of the seventh angel; particularly after the first resurrection, as also in eternity, Revelation 11:18; 15:7; 20:4; 22:5; Daniel 7:27; Psalm... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 5:11

And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands;And I saw — The many angels.And heard — The voice and the number of them.Round about the elders — So forming the third circle. It is remarkable, that men are represented through this whole vision as nearer to God than any of the angels.And the number of them was — At least two hundred millions, and two... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:1

II. PRELUDE TO OPENING THE SEVEN SEALS, Revelation 5:1-14. The Book and unaccepted challenge, Revelation 5:1-4. 1. And In the fourth chapter we had St. John’s gorgeous description of the royal-divine Court, convened to unfold the future of the Church and world. We are now to have the production of the document under whose seals the future is closed. The right hand Made visible, though the divine Person is curtained in glory. A book Let not the English reader fashion in his mind a... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:2

2. Strong angel Personal physical vigour is implied in the word strong, as in Revelation 10:1; Revelation 18:21. The present angel is strong, as being herald and challenger for God. Who is competent to break the seals that Jehovah has stamped? Who may reveal the secrets of the future, “which the Father has reserved in his own power?” Acts 1:7. Dusterdieck’s statement, that as the seven trumpets spring from the seventh seal, and the seven vials from the seventh trumpet, so the Apocalyptic... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:3

3. No man The word man is not in the Greek, and is a most unauthorized limitation. No one, whether man, spirit, demon, angel, or archangel, in heaven, earth, or under the earth, dared answer the all-pervading voice. Neither to look thereon That is, to inspect its rolled-up pages. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:4

4. I Emphatic. My response was weeping; the sole echo in the universal silence the silence of despair to the Church, for the revelation of her future, which was to have been her guiding star, is now forever shut up for want of a solver of the seals. Challenge accepted and the Book taken by the Lamb, 5-7. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:5

5. One of the elders The Lamb, as the next verse shows, had not yet been made visible to the seer; but one of the elders exalted representative of the Church within the circle of the sacred twenty-four is in the divine secret. The elder in his throned and crowned state is more knowing than the apostle still in the flesh. There is one, he declares, who in spite of all this silence, not only will prevail, but hath prevailed to open and loose book and seals. Lion… Judah Judah, that... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:6

6. Beheld, and lo For the first time the Lamb dawns on the seer’s sight in the midst of the celestial group. He is at once Lion and Lamb. The repetition of the phrase in the midst, is a Hebraism, which obscures the sense of the English, in which it should be used but once. The Lamb stood centrally in the group of cherubim and elders, either between the sea and the lamps or outside the lamps. Hengstenberg emphasizes too strongly the fact that the Greek word for lamb is ‘ αρνιον ,... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:7

7. Took the book Stuart, after Vitringa, and more persistently, raises the question, How could the Lamb take the roll without hands? And this question, Dusterdieck rejects as “unnothig und geschmacklos,” needless and tasteless. But Ezekiel did not think it geschmacklos to tell us that his cherubim “had the hands of a man,” Ezekiel 1:8. And the query of Stuart raises the question, What was the real form of the Lamb? and that is quite as legitimate as the question, What were the forms... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:8

Successive songs of praise to the Lamb, Revelation 5:8-14. 8. When he had taken Greek aorist, when he took, making the triumphal chant of the cherubic beasts and the elders in instantaneous consequence. The four, as nearer the throne, and as creation is antecedent to the Church, precede in the act of grateful adoration. This remarkable prostration is before the Lamb an unquestionable divine honour. Having Probably referring to the elders alone; for, 1. The word would not well,... read more

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