Revealed. The curtain of both the present and the future is lifted (Revelation 1:19). Jesus Christ. It is his message (see chapter 5). Which God gave him. God's Plan is behind it all. By sending his angel. Throughout this book, angels are given the messages to reveal. [See Hebrews 1:14; Revelation 4:1; Revelation 21:9; Revelation 22:1; Revelation 22:8; etc.] John, as a prophet, is to record all this and pass it on to all mankind.
THE REVELATION OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE Chronological Notes relative to this Book. -Year of the Constantinopolitan era of the world, or that used by the Byzantine historians, and other eastern writers...
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST - This is evidently a title or caption of the whole book, and is designed to comprise the substance of the whole; for all that the book contains would be embraced in the...
ANALYSIS AND ANNOTATIONS I. THE PATMOS VISION OF THE GLORIFIED SON OF MAN CHAPTER 1 _ 1. The introduction (Revelation 1:1)_ 2. Greeting and benediction (Revelation 1:4) 3. The praise (Revel
I. THE SUPERSCRIPTION. Revelation 1:1. An introductory paragraph describing the purpose and contents of the book. REVELATION 1:1. REVELATION, _ i.e._ unveiling of the future. GOD GAVE HIM: the Son r...
The opening scenes of Revelation are of the most striking character. Though the apostle is confined upon. lonely rock of the sea and is far away from the saints assembled in the name of Christ, yet be...
GOD'S REVELATION TO MEN (Revelation 1:1-3)...
This is the revelation revealed by Jesus Christ, the revelation which God gave to him to show to his servants, the revelation which tells of the things which must soon happen. This revelation Jesus Ch...
THE... CHRIST. The Divine title of the Book. THE REVELATION. Revelation. Greek. _apokalupsis,_ whence our "Apocalypse". App-106 and App-197. JESUS CHRIST. App-98. UNTO. to. SHEW. point out. First o...
Title and description of the Revelation. Chap. Revelation 1:1-3 1. _The Revelation_ Rightly so rendered in English idiom, though the definite article is not expressed in the Greek. The word, according...
ἈΠΟΚΆΛΥΨΙΣ. English idiom requires the definite article here (as with ἀπόδεξις in Hdt. I. 1). St Jerome (_ad_ Galatians 1:11-12) overstates a little when he calls the word ἀποκάλυψις distinctly script...
Revelation 1:1-3. TITLE AND DESCRIPTION OF THE REVELATION...
_A REVELATION FROM GOD REVELATION 1:1-3:_ The word translated "Revelation" is similar to our word "apocalypse." The word means "a revealing," or "an unveiling." It is the Revelation of Jesus Christ. I...
ROBERT _L._ Muse, The Book of Revelation: An Annotated Bibliography (Books of the Bible, vol. 2), 1996; ABD, 5:694-708; DLNT, 1025-38; Stanley J.Grenz, The Millenial Maze (Downers Grove, 111.: Inter V...
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST,— The book opens with the title, or inscription, the scope and design of it; to foretel things, which should shortly begin to be fulfilled, andsucceed in their due seaso...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 1 Text Revelation 1:1-3 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and sig...
Tomlinson's Comments PROLOGUE 1:18 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his...
The Revelation of 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: REVELATIO...
1 This is the unveiling of a Person Jesus Christ-not merely a prediction revealed through Him. God gives it to Him as a reward for His sufferings. 1 Swiftly-not _ soon_, but with speed. On the morning...
1:1 place; (b-19) Aorist, lit. 'have taken place,' perhaps 'be accomplished.' signified (c-22) * Lit. 'made known by signs.'...
OF] i.e. Christ is the real author. SHORTLY] the events were in the near future....
THE VISION OF THE SON OF MAN St. John addresses 'the seven churches which are in Asia,' telling them of a vision of Christ, who bade him, write in a book what he saw and send it to them. 1-3. Introdu...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ ABOUT THE BOOK OF REVELATION 1 THE WRITER The writer of this book simply calls himself John. He wrote to the *churches in Asia. He describe...
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. — The book is a revelation of the things which are and the things which shall be. “John is the writer, but Jesus Christ is the author,” says Grotius; and consistently w...
CHAPTER I. THE PROLOGUE. Revelation 1:1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show unto His servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and He sent and signified it th...
δούλοις, in specific sense of Revelation 10:7; Revelation 11:18, after Daniel 9:6; Daniel 9:10;...
The superscription. Ἀπ. Ἰωάννου is the ecclesiastical title (distinguishing it from the apocalypse of Peter, or of Paul, etc.) of what professes in reality to be an ἀπ. Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ (subjective genit...
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST Revelation 1:1 In His capacity as mediator, our Lord receives from the Father and transmits to His servants, that they may in turn transmit to the world of men, the gre...
The theme of this Book is found in its opening sentence, "The Revelation of Jesus Christ." This should be borne in mind from first to last, and our object should be to see Him as He is here revealed....
JESUS, THE AUTHOR We have already observed that Revelation means an uncovering or a laying bare. Particularly, this is Jesus' Revelation, but as John has done so often before (John 4:34; John 6:38; Jo...
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...
The Apocalypse, or Revelation. I rather prefer the word Apocalypse, which the Latin interpreter did not think fit to change. --- Of Jesus Christ....by his Angel, sent to his servant, John. So that the...
(1) The Revelation of 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: (2) Who...
CONTENTS After a short Preface of what the Apostle is called to, in the Ministry of this Book of Revelation, he addresseth the Seven Churches of Asia, with the Salutation of Grace and Peace. He speak...
That God should have chosen John to be the instrument of communicating the closing volume of the New Testament is worthy of our consideration. It is not a new thing for God thus to set out the stronge...
I Am I. INTRODUCTION A. Isaiah 11:1-2 There shall come forth a Rod from the stem of Jesse, And a Branch shall grow out of his roots. 2 The Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon Him, The Spirit of wisd...
The revelation is one belonging to Jesus Christ, which God gave Him, and He signifies it to John. Though God over all blessed for ever, He is here seen as Son of man, the rejected Messiah or Lamb, and...
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST,.... Either of which he is the author: for it was he that sent and showed it by his angel to John; it was he, the lion of the tribe of Judah, that took the book, and ope...
The Revelation of 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: Ver. 1. _...
The book opens with the title or inscription of the book itself, and an account of the scope and design of it, namely, to foretel things which should shortly begin to be fulfilled, and should succeed...
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST; that made by Jesus Christ. WHICH GOD GAVE UNTO HIM; here, as uniformly in the New Testament, Christ is represented as acting according to the commission which he has re...
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS AND THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS. The superscription:...
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST WHICH GOD GAVE UNTO HIM TO SHOW UNTO HIS SERVANTS THINGS WHICH MUST SHORTLY COME TO PASS; AND HE SENT AND SIGNIFIED IT BY HIS ANGEL UNTO HIS SERVANT JOHN;...
God gave this Revelation to Jesus Christ so that He might, as the Son of Man, communicate this to His servants. It is He who has been entrusted with the restitution of all things, and is therefore giv...
_ 1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave Him to show His servants-things which must shortly take place. And He sent and signified it by His angel to His servant John,_ A. This is a single “...
1-3 This book is the Revelation of Jesus Christ; the whole Bible is so; for all revelation comes through Christ, and all relates to him. Its principal subject is to discover the purposes of God conce...
OLBGrk; REVELATION CHAPTER 1 REVELATION 1:1 The preface. REVELATION 1:4 John's salutation to the seven churches of Asia. REVELATION 1:7 The coming of Christ,...
Dionysius Extant Fragments Part I But the writer of the Revelation puts himself forward at once in the very beginning, for he says: "The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which He gave to him to show to Hi...
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CHAPTER S 1-3. THE SON OF MAN AND THE SEVEN CHURCHES. Opening Words (Revelation 1:1). ‘The Revelation of Jesus Christ which God gave him to show to his servants, even the things which must shortly h...
In the first paragraph of the chapter we have the Preface and the Salutation of the book, the one extending from Revelation 1:1 to Revelation 1:3, the other from Revelation 1:4 to...
Revelation 1:1. The book is A REVELATION, a drawing back of the veil which, to the merely human eye, hangs over the purposes of God; and it is a revelation OF JESUS CHRIST, that is, not a revelation o...
THE REVELATION (αποκαλυψις). Late and rare word outside of N.T. (once in Plutarch and so in the vernacular _Koine_), only once in the Gospels (Luke 2:32), but in LXX and common in the Epistles (2 Th...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
Revelation 1:1. _The Revelation of 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 J...
Revelation 1:1. _The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to show unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant J...
CONTENTS: The Patmos vision of John and the command to write. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, Holy Spirit, John. CONCLUSION: Jesus Christ, the Alpha and the Omega, speaks to believers through the Apostle J...
Revelation 1:1. _The Revelation of Jesus Christ,_ which reaches to the end of time, and is a continuation of the Hebrew, and the christian prophets of the new testament. This revelation properly begin...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 1:1 Prologue. The terms “revelation,” “show,” “made it known,” and “he saw” prepare readers for symbolic visions. ⇐
In the opening clause we are told what the book is, A Revelation. It is not derived from natural sources, from history, from nature, from intuition, from the ratiocination of man, from any human or na...
THE REVELATION OF THE LIVING CHRIST _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 1:1. THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST.—This may mean, “belonging to, or proceeding from, Jesus Christ,” or it may be the r...
EXPOSITION THE TITLE. The simplest form of this, as of other books of the New Testament, is the oldest: 'The Revelation of John' (Αποκάλυψις Ιωάννου). Other forms worth noting are: 'The Revelation o...
CHAPTER 1 - JOHN RECEIVES THE VISION The first Chapter of Revelation is so profound it supports many of the foundational truths of Christian theology in just the first ten verses. _ 1 THE REVELATION...
Shall we turn in our Bibles now to the book of Revelation, chapter one? The Revelation of Jesus Christ (Revelation 1:1), The Greek word "apokalupsis" is literally the unveiling. So in the very first...
2 Peter 3:8; Amos 3:7; Daniel 2:28; Daniel 2:29; Daniel 8:16;...
The Revelation [α π ο κ α λ υ ψ ι ς]. The Greek word is transcribed in Apocalypse. The word occurs only once in the Gospels, Luke 2:32, where to lighten should be rendered for revelation. It is used t...
THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST Revelation 1:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The word "Revelation." The word "revelation" means an unveiling or uncovering, thus we approach the last Book of the Bible with a...
The Revelation — Properly so called; for things covered before are here revealed, or unveiled. No prophecy in the Old Testament has this title; it was reserved for this alone in the New. It is, as it...
That is, "This revelation God the Father gave to Christ his Son, as Mediator, and therewith. commission to impart it to his faithful servants, especially the ministers of his church, and particularly...