The (1) (a) Revelation of (b) 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 John: 1 AD The dragon watches the Church of the Jews, which was ready to travail: She brings forth, fle... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace [be] unto you, and peace, (3) from him (c) which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from (4) the (d) seven Spirits which are before his throne; (2) This is the particular or singular inscription, in which salutation is written to cer... [ Continue Reading ]
And from Jesus Christ, (5) [who is] the faithful witness, [and] the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood, (5) A most ample and honourable commendation of Christ, first from his offices of the pries... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every (e) eye shall see him, and they [also] which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen. (e) All men.... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) I am (f) Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. (6) A confirmation of the greeting earlier, taken from the words of God himself: in which he affirms his operation in every single creature, the immutable eternit... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is (g) called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ. (7) The narration, opening the way to the declaring of the authority and calling... [ Continue Reading ]
I was in the (h) Spirit on the (i) Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, (h) This is a holy trance expressed, with which the prophets were entranced, and being carried out of the world, conversed with God: and so Ezekiel says often, that he was carried from place to place... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) And I turned to (k) see the voice that spake with me. (9) And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; (8) The exposition, declaring the third and last point of the proposition (for the other points are evident of themselves) in which is he first speaks of the author of his calling (till... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. (11) And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; (12) I am the first and the last: (10) A religious fear, that goes before the calling of the saints, and their full confirmation to take on them the vocation of God. (11) A divin... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter; (13) The sum of this prophecy, that the apostle must write whatever he sees, adding nothing, nor taking away anything (Revelation 1:2). Here there are two parts: one is a narration of thos... [ Continue Reading ]
(14) The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the (l) angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches. (14) That is, the thing which was mystical signified by the parti... [ Continue Reading ]