Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Revelation 21:6

“Tis done, all is over” (sc. οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι or πάντα). The perfecting of God's work is followed, as in Isaiah 54-56, by a liberal promise of satisfaction to all spiritual desire, and the three ideas of consolation, eternal refreshment, and Divine fellowship are thus conjoined as in Revelation 7:14-17. Compare the fontal passage in Philo, de migrat Abr. § 6 πηγὴ δὲ, ἀφʼ ἧς ὀμβρεῖ τὸ ἀγαθά, ἡ τοῦ φιλοδώρου Θεοῦ σύνοδός ἐστιν. οὗ χάριν ἐπισφραγιζόμενος τὰ τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν φησιν, Εσομαι μετὰ σοῦ. The promise implies (like Isaiah 44:3, not Isaiah 55:1) that thirst is accompanied by readiness and eagerness to accept the boon, which is free (6) and full (πάντα) and filial (Revelation 21:7). The thirst fox God is opposed to the unbelief and vice which quench it, just as the victorious life is contrasted with the craven spirit which shrinks from the hardships and demands of faith. Similarly the life of strenuous obedience now enters on its majority; it comes into an estate of filial confidence to the great God, bestowed on all who acquit themselves nobly in their probation. By a rare touch (since Revelation 3:22) in the Apocalypse, the individual Christian is singled out. Usually the writer is interested in the general body of Christians. Here, however, as in 2 3, religious individualism aptly follows the idea of personal promise and encouragement (cf. Revelation 22:17), as afterwards of judgment (Revelation 22:11-12).

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Revelation 21:6

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