Gary Hampton Commentaries
Revelation 22:21
How appropriate to end a book addressed to those facing severe persecution with a prayer for God's favor and good will in their behalf.
How appropriate to end a book addressed to those facing severe persecution with a prayer for God's favor and good will in their behalf.
REVELATION 22:21 kuri,ou VIhsou/ {A} The reading kuri,ou VIhsou/, which is well supported by a A and about 15 minuscules (including 1611 2053), was expanded by pious scribes by adding Cristou/ after...
Verse Revelation 22:21. _THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST_] May the favour and powerful influence of Jesus Christ _be with you all_; you of the seven Churches, and the whole Church of Christ in ever...
THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN - The usual benediction of the sacred writers. See the notes on Romans 16:20....
CHAPTER 22:6-21 The Final Messages __ 1. The angel's message (Revelation 22:6) 2. The message of the Lord (Revelation 22:12) 3. The two classes (Revelation 22:14)...
THE EPILOGUE. The Epilogue consists of the last words, warnings, and exhortations of the angel and the seer. Revelation 22:6. these words: the contents of the book. SHORTLY COME TO PASS: the author t...
SURELY. COME QUICKLY. These are the words of the Lord, and mean that the chain of future events revealed shall begin its fulfillment in. short time. John adds the prayer, "Even so, come, Lord Jesus....
THE RIVER OF LIFE (Revelation 22:1-2)...
GRACE, &C. See Revelation 1:4. OUR. The texts read "the". CHRIST. Most texts omit. YOU ALL. Many texts read "all the saints"....
_our Lord Jesus Christ_ Read only, THE LORD JESUS. _with you all_ We should read either only WITH ALL, or more probably WITH THE SAINTS. Many authorities omit "Amen" here, as after the benedictions e...
THE FINAL TESTIMONY OF THE SEER AND HIS BENEDICTION...
21. Primas[892] omits. For ΠΆΝΤΩΝ א substitutes, B2 adds, τῶν ἁγίων. [892] Primasius, edited by Haussleiter. 21. ΜΕΤᾺ ΠΆΝΤΩΝ. See crit. note. This does not seem so much in the spirit of the Book as...
__ The invitation of the Spirit and the bride Revelation 22:17-21: The invitation was, "And the Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come. And let him that is athirst come. An...
ΧΆΡΙΣ (G5485) благодать. Благословение на всех, кто слушал эту книгу, которая зачитывалась в церквях Асии (Mounce). Благодать — единственное основание, на котором можно устоять вечность (Govett). ΠΆ...
JOHN SAW THESE THINGS, AND HEARD, &C.— St. John testifies himself to have been the person who _saw and heard these things;_ and in his extasy falling into the same mistake which he had committed, ch....
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XXII THE NEW JERUSALEM AND ITS LIFE _Text (Revelation 22:1-21)_ 1 And he showed me a river of water of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 76 Text Revelation 22:20-21 20 He who testifieth these things saith, Yea: I come quickly. Amen: Come, Lord Jesus. 21 The grace of the Lord Jesus be with the saints. Amen....
OUR. So Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic; but A B 'Aleph (') omit. CHRIST. So B, Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, Andreas; but A 'Aleph (') omit. WITH YOU ALL. B has 'with all the saints.' A, Vulgate, has 'with al...
_CONCLUSION-WARNING-HIS COMING_ 18 It is one of the saddest commentaries on the frailty of mankind to find that this warning has about seven variant readings in the three manuscripts we consult. Who...
THE VISION ENDED. THE LORD IS AT HAND The inner life of the heavenly Jerusalem is described. Then the 'Revelation' closes with the repeated assurance that Christ is at hand, and with the yearnings of...
THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST... — There is some variety of reading among the MSS. We ought probably to read, _The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with all_ (or else, following the Sinaitic MS....
(6-21) These verses contain the concluding words. It is the Epilogue of the Book; it deals with practical exhortations, warnings, and blessings....
CHAPTER XVIII. THE EPILOGUE. Revelation 22:6. THE visions of the Seer have closed, and closed with a picture of the final and complete triumph of the Church over all her enemies. No more glorious re...
A benediction at the close of the reading (Revelation 1:3; Revelation 22:7) before the congregation, rather than an epistolary epilogue to the Apocalypse. The epistolary form in which apocalypses, lik...
“COME, LORD JESUS” Revelation 22:10 _ Still_, four times repeated, implies the crystallization and permanence of character. The rewards mentioned here are for the faithful service of Christ's steward...
Still gazing at the city, the seer beheld the great river of water of life. On its banks is the tree of life, yielding fruit, and leaves for the healing of nations. And once more the apostle declares...
(11) The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [be] with you all. Amen. (11) The apostolic salutation, which is the other part of the conclusion, as I said See Revelation 22:6 and is the end of almost every...
He that giveth testimony of these things, i.e. God, and Jesus Christ by an Angel, saith, surely, (or even so, or truly, these are certain truths) I come quickly, to reward the good and punish the evil...
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen. John closeth all with the sweet apostolical benediction. The grace Of OUT Lord Jesus Christ be with you all Amen. Reader! this is among the gr...
It is necessary that we should all bear in mind, if we have not observed it before, that Revelation 17:1-18 does not pursue the chronological course of the prophecy. It is a description, and not one o...
The End and Beginning? I. INTRODUCTION A. In our last study we saw a "new heaven" and a "new earth" created by the Lord as He wiped away the curse of sin and started over. 1. We also saw a new city...
The connection of the holy city with the earth, though not on it, is everywhere seen. The river of God refreshed the city, and the tree of life, whose fruits ever ripe were food for the celestial inha...
THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN. That is, let a sense of the love of Christ, shown in all his regards to his church and people, which is always the same in itself, though the...
The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ _be_ with you all. Amen. Ver. 21. _The grace of our Lord_] An epistolary conclusion. The Revelation is rather to be counted an epistle than a book. Read it as sent...
_The grace_ The free love; _of our Lord Jesus Christ_ And all its fruits; _be with you all_ Who thus long for his appearing, and with all true Christians. The conclusion, as Bishop Newton says, is tru...
THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST; a desire and prayer that Christ's divine favor might be bestowed upon those for whom the apostle wrote, according to all their wants for time and eternity. However...
THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN. The Lord Himself signs the Book of Revelation with His name: I, Jesus, sent My angel to testify to you these things concerning the churches; I...
A final call to come:...
THE RIVER OF WATER OF LIFE AND THE TREE OF LIFE The description of the city continues to the end of verse 5 of this chapter. The city is blessed with a river of the water of life proceeding from the t...
_ 21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen._ A. God will bless us as we read publicly this book. B. God’s grace will shine on us as we listen, study and understand this book. C....
20,21 After discovering these things to his people on earth, Christ seems to take leave of them, and return to heaven; but he assures them it shall not be long before he comes again. And while we are...
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The Apocalypse began with a Prologue. As in the case of the Fourth Gospel, it now ends with a corresponding Epilogue, in which the great importance of all the revelations it had contained is again set...
THE GRACE OF THE LORD JESUS BE WITH THE SAINTS (η χαρις του Κυριου Ιησου μετα των αγιων). John's own benediction, an unusual ending for an apocalypse, but suitable for one meant to be read in the ch...
Revelation 22:1. _And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb._ Rivers partake of the character of the source from which they...
CONTENTS: The New Paradise and its river of the water of life. The last exhortation of Christ to be ready for His second coming. CONCLUSION: The Paradise lost by the first Adam shall be restored by th...
Revelation 22:1. _He shewed me a pure river of water of life._ From the city we go to the palace, where the vision opens on the rock of ages, the Elohim, seated on his throne. Thence flows the crystal...
I AM COMING SOON! Jesus answers the eager prayer of his church [the messianic community]. The church of the first century ended each prayer with the words: _"Come, Lord Jesus!"_ MAY THE GRACE OF THE L...
AMEN Amen. Revelation 22:21. This is one of the words you hear most frequently in church. It comes at the end of the hymns and prayers and sometimes the minister says it at the end of his sermon. Di...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 22:6 Epilogue. John reaffirms the truthfulness of the revelation he received. He pronounces blessing on those who keep its words, and promises that Jesus will soon return...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 22:18 I WARN is the same verb as TESTIFIES in v. Revelation 22:20. No human may...
THE RESTORED PARADISE, AND THE EPILOGUE _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE first five verses complete the description of the new heavens and new earth. There is evident reference in the figures of t...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 22:1 AND HE SHOWED ME A PURE RIVER. Omit "pure." "And" connects this part of the vision with what precedes (Revelation 21:9). It would have been better, perhaps, if the twenty-...
_20 HE WHICH TESTIFIETH THESE THINGS SAITH, SURELY I COME QUICKLY. AMEN. EVEN SO, COME, LORD JESUS._ _ 21 THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST BE WITH YOU ALL. AMEN._ The final words of the book tell...
And he shewed me a pure river (Revelation 22:1) You know it is going to be new, because these don't exist anymore here. of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of...
2 Corinthians 13:14; 2 Peter 3:12; 2 Thessalonians 3:18; 2 Timothy 4:8;...
Our Lord [η μ ω ν]. Omit. With you all [μ ε τ α π α ν τ ω ν υ μ ω ν]. The readings differ. Some read meta pantwn with all, omitting you. Others, meta twn aJgiwn with the saints....
THE MARRIAGE OF THE LAMB Revelation 19:1; _Revelation 21:1 and Revelation 22:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. Old Testament analogies of the coming Marriage in the skies. It is not diffi
The grace — The free love. Of the Lord Jesus — And all its fruits. Be with all — Who thus long for his appearing! It may be proper to subjoin here a short view of the whole contents of this book. In t...
"This is an epistolary conclusion, used almost in all the epistles of the New Testament, and so here, because this prophecy was in the manner of an epistle directed to the churches. St. John began thi...