Revelation 1:6

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 synonymous with the "royal priesthood" of 1 Peter 2:9. That is an exact quotation from the LXX. version of Exodus 19:6 and a correct rendering of the Hebrew; this is not.

God and his Father A more natural translation is that of the R. V. His God and Father as in Rom 15:6; 2 Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 11:31; Ephesians 1:3; Colossians 1:3 (perhaps); 1 Peter 1:3. Certainly there is nothing in this version unworthy of our Lord's relation to His Father; cf. John 20:17. But some, while admitting the above to be the natural sense in the passages quoted from SS. Peter and Paul, argue that here the A. V. is right; because St John, especially in this book, usually repeats a possessive pronoun with each of the substantives it belongs to, e.g. Revelation 6:11, "theirfellow servants and theirbrethren;" so that he would have written "HisGod and His Father," if that had been the sense intended. Perhaps "My God" in Revelation 3:12 may serve to decide which is the likelier meaning in this Book.