Revelation 13:8

whose names Read, whose name, the pronoun as well as the noun being singular.

the book of life of the Lamb Revelation 21:27: see note on Revelation 5:1.

from the foundation of the world Perhaps in Greek, as in English, it is most natural to connect these words with "slain:" and 1 Peter 1:19-20 works out what, on this view, would be the sense. But the similar clause Revelation 17:8 seems to prove that the words are to be taken with "written:" it is God's purpose of individual election, not of universal redemption, that is here dated "from the foundation of the world."