Revelation 22:14

οἱ πλύνοντες τὰς στολὰς αὐτῶν. Text. Rec[883] reads οἱ ποιοῦντες τὰς ἐντολὰς αὐτοῦ with B2 Tert[884] Cyp[885] Tyc[886][883] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener.

[884] Tertullian as quoted by Haussleiter.
[885] St Cyprian as quoted by Haussleiter.
[886] Tyconius.

14. οἱ πλύνοντες τὰς στολάς. See crit. note. Closely as the two readings resemble each other it is a question whether that of Text. Rec[898] began as a clerical error or as a gloss; as a gloss it may well be correct, cf. Revelation 19:8, for the tense is different in Revelation 7:14, though the tenses of participles are not always to be pressed in this book (see on ὁ πλανῶν Revelation 20:10). There are plenty of Scriptural parallels for the sentences read either way and for either sense of the true text.

[898] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener.

ἵνα ἔσται ἡ ἐξουσία. This is closely connected with μακάριος: this shall be their blessedness to have such right. The right of approaching the Tree of Life is a definite privilege granted to a certain class, viz., those who “wash their robes.” The reason that ἔσται is in the indicative, εἰσέλθωσιν in the subjunctive, may be that ἔσται depends on μακάριοι, εἰσέλθωσιν on πλύνοντες.