Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary

Revelation 4:9

δώσουσιν. Primas[170] reads dederant (=? ἔδωκαν); Vg[171] darent (=? δώσωσιν אB2 δωσιν Areth[172]). In Revelation 4:10 Haussleiter edits cadebunt adorabunt.

[170] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter.
[171] Vulgate.
[172] Arethas, Archbishop of Caesarea.

9. καὶ ὅταν δώσουσιν τὰ ζῷα.… The meaning of the futures is doubtful: some take them as “implying eternal repetition of the act.” Or the meaning may be (if one may say so reverently) a sort of stage direction: “during the future course of the vision, these (who never leave the scene) are to be understood to be thus employed.” But it is always a question in this book whether the use of tenses be not accommodated to the rules of Hebrew rather than Greek grammar: the sense may after all be merely frequentative.

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