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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 4 - Introduction

THE SECOND VISION.

Chapter 4-5 The Vision of Heaven - the Book with Seven Seals - and the Lamb.

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See also Revelation 4 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Analysis Of The Chapter This chapter Revelation 4:1 properly commences the series of visions respecting future events, and introduces those remarkable symbolical descriptions which were designed to ch...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    JESUS IS WORTHY OF PRAISE REVELATION FOUR John had observed the vision of Christ in the midst of the golden candlesticks. God had told him, "What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the sev...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _JOHN SEETH THE THRONE OF GOD IN HEAVEN. THE FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS. THE FOUR BEASTS FULL OF EYES BEFORE AND BEHIND. THE ELDERS LAY DOWN THEIR CROWNS, AND WORSHIP HIM THAT SAT ON THE THRONE._ _Anno...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 place; (b-19) Aorist, lit. 'have taken place,' perhaps 'be accomplished.' signified (c-22) * Lit. 'made known by signs.'...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    IV. In this chapter we pass from the sufferings and temptations of the churches below to the unsullied glory above. The vision of the Almighty here described is thought to be interposed here to remind...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO REVELATION 4 This chapter contains an account of the second vision John saw, as preparatory to the sealed book, and the opening of it, as the first vision was to the epistles to the s...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    * A vision of God, as on his glorious throne, around which were twenty-four elders and four living creatures. (1-8) Whose songs, and those of the holy angels, the apostle heard. (9-11)...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    TRIAL AND PERSECUTION. CHAPTER S 4-7. (JOHN 16:33) BACK TO FIRST COMING OF CHRIST Chapter s 4 - 7 begin with the First Coming and deal with the church being persecuted and tested in the world. Jesus...

  • The Message from Patmos by David Scott Clark

    CHAPTER IV. Chapter four begins a new section of Revelation. This section terminates with chapter eleven which reaches the climax at that point with the sounding of the seventh trumpet and the judgmen...

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