Revelation 7:15

before the throne Perhaps in a more favoured position than is given to all, even among Saints: as we have similar language about the most favoured Angels, Matthew 18:10; Luke 1:19.

serve Him Cf. Revelation 22:3. The sense would be clearer if the word were rendered "worship:" it does not mean that they have active work to do for Him, but that they do what is the appropriate service of His Temple.

shall dwell among them Rather, as R. V., shall spread his tabernacle over them: in Revelation 21:3 the verb is the same, but there the preposition "with" is right. The word is used in the N. T., and in Hellenistic writers generally, to express the dwelling of the Divine Presence in any of its manifestations: see esp. St John's Gospel, John 1:14. The Greek word for "tabernacle," scênê, was the more readily used in this sense because of its assonance with the late Hebrew word Shěchînêhfor "the cloud of glory shadowing the Mercy-seat." Here perhaps the thought is rather of that manifestation of God's Presence than of the fuller and later Presence in the Incarnation.