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REVELATION 1:6 eivj tou.j aivw/naj @tw/n aivw,nwn# {C}
The words tw/n aivw,nwn are absent from î18 A P about thirty
minuscules copbo Andrewa, but are present in a C 046 1 1006 1611 1854
2053 itgig, h...
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Verse Revelation 1:6. _KINGS AND PRIESTS_] See on 1 Peter 2:5; 1
Peter 2:9. But instead of βασιλεις και ιερεις, _kings
and priests_ the most reputable MSS., versions, and fathers have
βασιλειαν ιερει...
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AND HATH MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS UNTO GOD - In 1 Peter 2:9 the same
idea is expressed by saying of Christians that they are “a royal
priesthood.” See the notes on that verse. The quotation in both
p...
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ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS
I. THE PATMOS VISION OF THE GLORIFIED SON OF MAN
CHAPTER 1
_ 1. The introduction (Revelation 1:1)_
2. Greeting and benediction (Revelation 1:4)
3. The praise (Revel
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THE GREETING is addressed to the seven churches of Asia for whom the
book was written.
REVELATION 1:4. SEVEN CHURCHES, _ i.e._ Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamum,
Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, Laodicea. ASI...
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AND MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS UNTO GOD.
The Revision translates, "Made us. kingdom, priests unto his God and
Father;" made us. kingdom of priests, which is probably the true idea.
In this kingdom of C...
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The opening scenes of Revelation are of the most striking character.
Though the apostle is confined upon. lonely rock of the sea and is far
away from the saints assembled in the name of Christ, yet be...
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This is John writing to the seven Churches which are in Asia. Grace be
to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and
from the seven spirits which are before his throne, and from...
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GOD'S REVELATION TO MEN (Revelation 1:1-3)...
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HATH. Omit.
KINGS AND PRIESTS. (to be). kingdom (so all texts) and (to be)
priests. See Revelation 5:10; Revelation 20:6; Exodus 19:6 (Septuagint
"a royal priesthood")
FATHER. See App-98.
glo
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_and hath made_ Lit., AND HE MADE; the construction "that loveth …
and that freed …" is broken off, to be resumed by "to Him" in the
next clause.
_kings and priests_ Read, A KINGDOM, PRIESTS: a phrase...
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ΚΑῚ ἘΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ. Lit., “And He made”; the construction
τῷ� … καὶ λύσαντι is broken off rather strangely, as
it is resumed by αὐτῷ; otherwise a finite verb after participles
is not strange in Hebrew or He...
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_A REVELATION OF LOVE AND BLOOD -- REVELATION 1:4-8:_ The book of
Revelation was written to the seven churches of Asia. There were other
churches in that general area including Troas, Colosse and Hier...
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ΈΠΟΊΗΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160)
делать, устанавливать. _Aor._
рассматривает завершенное действие
Христа и подводит его итоги,
применительно к каждому верующему.
ΒΑΣΙΛΕΊΑ (G932) царство. Эт...
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DISCOURSE: 2476
THE GROUNDS OF PRAISE TO CHRIST
Revelation 1:5. _Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins
in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his
Father; to h...
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Tomlinson's Comments
PROLOGUE 1:18
1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his
servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent
and signified it by his...
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Strauss-' Comments
SECTION 2
Text Revelation 1:4-8
4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace,
from him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven
Spirits th...
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And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be
glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
AND HATH MADE, [B, poieesanti (G4160); A C 'Aleph ('), Kai (G2532)
epoieesen (G4160...
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1 This is the unveiling of a Person Jesus Christ-not merely a
prediction revealed through Him. God gives it to Him as a reward for
His sufferings.
1 Swiftly-not _ soon_, but with speed. On the morning...
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1:6 made (g-2) Lit. 'he has made.' 'Loves' and 'has washed' are
participles....
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KINGS] RV 'to be a kingdom,' i.e. a society under His kingship: cp.
Exodus 19:6; 1 Peter 2:9. PRIESTS] to offer spiritual sacrifices: cp.
Hebrews 13:15;...
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THE VISION OF THE SON OF MAN
St. John addresses 'the seven churches which are in Asia,' telling
them of a vision of Christ, who bade him, write in a book what he saw
and send it to them.
1-3. Introdu...
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FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME
REVELATION
_IAN MACKERVOY_
ABOUT THE BOOK OF REVELATION
1 THE WRITER
The writer of this book simply calls himself John. He wrote to the
*churches in Asia. He describe...
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AND HATH MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS UNTO GOD AND HIS FATHER; TO HIM BE
GLORY AND DOMINION FOR EVER (or, _unto the ages_). — The symbol of
washing in the last verse naturally leads on to the thought of...
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CHAPTER I.
THE PROLOGUE.
Revelation 1:1
The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show unto His
servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and He sent
and signified it th...
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The prologue....
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THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST
Revelation 1:1
In His capacity as mediator, our Lord receives from the Father and
transmits to His servants, that they may in turn transmit to the world
of men, the gre...
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The theme of this Book is found in its opening sentence, "The
Revelation of Jesus Christ." This should be borne in mind from first
to last, and our object should be to see Him as He is here revealed....
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IDENTIFYING JESUS
This letter is also from Jesus, who is the "faithful witness" of God's
will (Revelation 1:5; John 3:31-32; John 8:14; John 1
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John to the seven churches, [1] afterwards named; and by them, to be
understood of all churches, bishops, and people in the like
dispositions. --- From him, who is, who was, and who is to come. As
the...
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(4) John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you,
and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and
from the seven Spirits which are before his throne; (5) And...
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That God should have chosen John to be the instrument of communicating
the closing volume of the New Testament is worthy of our
consideration. It is not a new thing for God thus to set out the
stronge...
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I Am
I. INTRODUCTION
A. Isaiah 11:1-2 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse,
And a Branch shall grow out of his roots.
2 The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisd...
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The revelation is one belonging to Jesus Christ, which God gave Him,
and He signifies it to John. Though God over all blessed for ever, He
is here seen as Son of man, the rejected Messiah or Lamb, and...
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AND HATH MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS,.... The Alexandrian copy, and
Complutensian edition, read, "a kingdom, priests"; and the Vulgate
Latin version, "a kingdom and priests"; and the Arabic version, "a...
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And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him
_be_ glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.
Ver. 6. _And hath made us kings_] To rule in righteousness, to lord
it over our lus...
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_John_ The dedication of this book is contained in the 4th, 5th, and
6th verses; but the whole Revelation is a kind of letter. _To the
seven churches which are in Asia_ That part of the Lesser Asia, w...
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KINGS AND PRIESTS; to reign with him in glory, chap Revelation 22:5,
and to offer to God through him spiritual sacrifices, 1 Peter 2:5. The
source of grace, mercy, and peace, is the self-existent, ete...
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God gave this Revelation to Jesus Christ so that He might, as the Son
of Man, communicate this to His servants. It is He who has been
entrusted with the restitution of all things, and is therefore giv...
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_ 6 and has made us kings and priests to His God and Father, to Him be
glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen._
A. MADE US KINGS - Christians, as fellow citizens in the Kingdom of
Christ, are also...
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4-8 There can be no true peace, where there is not true grace; and
where grace goeth before, peace will follow. This blessing is in the
name of God, of the Holy Trinity, it is an act of adoration. Th...
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AND HATH MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS UNTO GOD AND HIS FATHER: _kings, _
to rule over our own appetite, and govern ourselves by the law of his
word, to fight and conquer the world, the flesh, and the dev...
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Tertullian On Exhortation to Chastity
Are not even we laics priests? It is written: "A kingdom also, and
priests to His God and Father, hath He made us."[37]
Tertullian On Monogamy
have put on Chri...
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Revelation 1:6 and G2532 made G4160 (G5656) us G2248 kings G935 and
G2532 priests G2409 His G846 God...
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‘To Him who loves us (present tense), and freed us from our sins by
(en) His blood (aorist tense), and made us to be a Kingdom, even
priests to His God and Father, to Him be the glory and dominion for...
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Revelation 1:4-6. After the manner of the prophets of the O. T., the
writer now brings himself forward by name, and directly addresses the
Church. In the consciousness of his Divine commission, and of...
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The Preface of the book is over, and the Salutation follows....
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In the first paragraph of the chapter we have the Preface and the
Salutation of the book, the one extending from Revelation 1:1 to
Revelation 1:3, the other from Revelation 1:4 to...
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AND HE MADE
(κα εποιησεν). Change from the participle construction,
which would be κα ποιησαντ (first aorist active of
ποιεω) like λυσαντ just before, a Hebraism Charles calls
it, but certainly an a...
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Revelation 1:6
I. (1) The substitution in the Revised Version of "a kingdom" for
"kings" places the promises of the new dispensation in direct
connection with the facts of the old. The language of St....
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Revelation 1:5
The Christian Priesthood.
I. It is amongst the most common, and certainly not the least
dangerous of the errors of the day, to identify the Church with the
clergy, as though the laity...
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Revelation 1:1. _The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto
him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass;
and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant J...
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Revelation 1:1. _The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto
him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass;
and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant J...
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CONTENTS: The Patmos vision of John and the command to write.
CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, John.
CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, the Alpha and the Omega, speaks to believers
through the Apostle J...
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Revelation 1:1. _The Revelation of Jesus Christ,_ which reaches to the
end of time, and is a continuation of the Hebrew, and the christian
prophets of the new testament. This revelation properly begin...
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REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 1:4 This greeting identifies the
author and recipients. THE SEVEN CHURCHES THAT ARE IN ASIA. Churches
existed in other cities of Roman Asia (e.g., Colossae, Troas). Thus...
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REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 1:1 Prologue. The terms
“revelation,” “show,” “made it known,” and “he saw”
prepare readers for symbolic visions.
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These verses must be held together, and grasped comprehensively to get
the proper view-point. "John to the seven churches which are in Asia."
What he writes, he writes to those seven churches; and thi...
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_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_
Revelation 1:4. CHURCHES.—Or congregations. ASIA.—The single
province, not the whole Asia Minor. It may have been the province in
which St. John had chiefly laboured. T...
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EXPOSITION
THE TITLE. The simplest form of this, as of other books of the New
Testament, is the oldest: 'The Revelation of John'
(Αποκάλυψις Ιωάννου). Other forms worth noting
are: 'The Revelation o...
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_6 AND HATH MADE US KINGS AND PRIESTS UNTO GOD AND HIS FATHER; TO HIM
BE GLORY AND DOMINION FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN_.
John is talking about himself and all other believers. He says that
Jesus has alre...
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Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the book of Revelation, chapter
one?
The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Revelation 1:1),
The Greek word "apokalupsis" is literally the unveiling. So in the
very first...
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1 Peter 2:5; 1 Peter 4:11; 1 Peter 5:11; 1 Timothy 6:16; 2 Peter 3:18
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Kings [β α σ ι λ ε ι ς]. The correct reading is, basileian a
kingdom. The term King is never applied in the New Testament to
individual Christians. The reigning of the saints is emphasized in
this boo...
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THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST
Revelation 1:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. The word "Revelation." The word "revelation" means an unveiling or
uncovering, thus we approach the last Book of the Bible with a...
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To him that loveth us, and, out of that free, abundant love, hath
washed us from the guilt and power of our sins with his own blood, and
hath made us kings — Partakers of his present, and heirs of his...