Revelation 21:6

εἶπεν. א has λέγει, Primas[806] dicit.

[806] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter.

γέγοναν. With אcA, 38 γεγόνασιν. Iren[807]int. facta sunt. Text. Rec[808] has γέγονε with vg[809] factum est; א*B2P 1 Or. γέγονα; אcc cop[810] æth[811] omit.

[807] St Irenaeus in the old Latin Version.
[808] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener.
[809] Vulgate.
[810] Coptic.
[811] Aethiopic Version.

ἐγώ εἰμι. With A vg[812] Primas[813]; אB2P Cyp[814] omit εἰμι, Or. omits ἐγώ εἰμι.

[812] Vulgate.
[813] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter.
[814] St Cyprian as quoted by Haussleiter.

δωρεάν. א* has δωρεάς.

6. γέγοναν. But for the plural an exact repetition of Revelation 16:17. If we ask, what is the subject to this verb, “They have come into being,” perhaps the best answer is “all things.” The new universe of which the creating Word has just gone forth, has now been made, “and God sees that it is good.”

τὸ ἄλφα καὶ τὸ ὦ. As in Revelation 1:8 (not 11s) Revelation 22:13. Here as in the former passage it is God the Father that speaks.

τῆς … ζωῆς. See Revelation 7:17 and note, Revelation 22:1 : also our Lord’s words in St John’s Gospel, John 4:14; John 7:38. The last quoted passage is combined with this in the Epistle describing the Martyrs of Gaul (Eus. H. E. v.i.18). The writer (as pointed out in Camb. Texts and Studies 1, 2, p. 98) followed a punctuation which makes Christ (not the believer) the fount of living waters.

δωρεάν. Cf. Isaiah 55:1, ἄνευ�.