μυστήριον (G3466) тайна (TDNT; EDNT; DLNT, 782-84). Здесь acc. отношения или общей ссылки (GGBB, 204).
είδες aor. ind. act. от όράω (G3708) видеть,
άγγελος (G32) посланник, ангел. Это слово может обозначать небесные создания, которые были хранителями церквей, или же это сами церкви, персонифицированные как посланцы, или люди как посланцы Бога (Thomas; Mounce; Swete; Charles; LSCA, 32-34; Aune; BBC).
Verse Revelation 1:20. _THE MYSTERY_] That is, the _allegorical_ explanation of the _seven stars_ is the _seven angels_ or ministers of the Churches; and the allegorical meaning of the _seven golden l...
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS - On the word “mystery,” see notes on Ephesians 1:9. The word means, properly, “what is hidden, obscure, unknown” - until it is disclosed by one having the ability to do...
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
THE PROLOGUE gives an account of the vision of the Son of Man, and the manner in which the messages to the seven churches came to the seer. Revelation 1:9. John your brother: the term brother in the N...
THE SEVEN ANGELS.--I shall not take up space to discuss the various views as to the nature of the angels of the churches. It has been held that they were heavenly angels, were diocesan bishops of the...
GOD'S REVELATION TO MEN (Revelation 1:1-3)...
MYSTERY. secret symbol. See App-193. STARS. Greek. _aster,_ occurs fourteen times in Rev. (App-10) IN. Greek. _epi._ ARE. represent, or signify. THE. Omit. ANGELS. App-120. Revelation 1:2. WHICH...
_the mystery_ The use of this word in the N. T. is not very far removed from its primary meaning in classical Greek. We may paraphrase it, "the hidden divine truth, now made known, but made known to G...
ΤῸ ΜΥΣΤΉΡΙΟΝ. The only possible construction of these words is as an accusative in loose apposition to ἃ εἶδες κ.τ.λ.; perhaps the writer left them without any construction. If he had attended to deta...
_A REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST REVELATION 1:12-20:_ What a blessing this must have been to John to see Jesus again. Jesus is pictured as standing in His magnificence in the midst of these seven churche...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 3 Text Revelation 1:9-20 9 I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and patience which are in Jesus, was in the isle that is called Patmos,...
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawes...
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...
1:20 angels (i-25) The word has also the sense of 'messengers.' see Note e, ch. 2.20....
13. THE SON] RV 'a son': see on Revelation 14:14; Daniel 7:13. TO THE FOOT] i.e. of kingly or priestly dignity. GIRDLE] cp. Daniel 10:5....
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 MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS WHICH THOU SAWEST IN MY RIGHT HAND. — Having bidden him write the meaning of this mystery, or _secret,_ He gives to St. John an explanatory key: “The seven stars are ang...
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...
μυστ. (as in Daniel 2:27, LXX; see below on Revelation 10:7) = “the secret symbol”. These two symbols, drawn from the lore of contemporary apocalyptic, are chosen for explanation, partly as an obscure...
FROM THE LIVING LORD TO THE CHURCHES Revelation 1:9 The tribulation and patience of Jesus are essential conditions of His Kingdom. We cannot exert the divine energies of the latter, unless we are wil...
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....
JOHN'S RESPONSE TO JESUS' GREATNESS The vision of Jesus was so powerful and awe-inspiring that John fell down as if he were dead (compare Isaiah 6:5; Ezekiel 1:29; Daniel 8:17; Daniel 8:27;...
(14) The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the (l) angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which th...
_Angels. These are the seven bishops of the churches. Christ's having them in his right hand, shews the care he takes of his Church. (Calmet)_...
REFLECTIONS BLESSED! forever blessed, be God the Father, for the gift of his dear Son Jesus Christ. Blessed! forever blessed, be God the Son, for this gracious revelation of himself to his servant Joh...
(9) I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony o...
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 MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS WHICH THOU SAWEST IN MY RIGHT HAND,.... The sense is, that John was to write the mystery of these stars, or the mystical sense of them: AND THE SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICK...
The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest...
THE SEVEN STARS ARE THE ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES; probably their spiritual leaders. ARE THE SEVEN CHURCHES; represent them. The fact that Jesus Christ said, "The seven candlesticks are the seven c...
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS WHICH THOU SAWEST IN MY RIGHT HAND, AND THE SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS. THE SEVEN STARS ARE THE ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES, AND THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS WHICH THOU SAWEST...
Christ commands John to write:...
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...
_ 20 The mystery of the seven stars which you saw in My right hand, and the seven golden lampstands: The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands which you saw are th...
12-20 The churches receive their light from Christ and the gospel, and hold it forth to others. They are golden candlesticks; they should be precious and pure; not only the ministers, but the members...
OLBGrk; THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS, AND THE SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS: see REVELATION 1:12,16. THE SEVEN STARS ARE THE ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES; that is, they signify the angels of the seven c...
Tertullian On Modesty and with "the angel of the Church,"[156]...
Revelation 1:20 mystery G3466 seven G2033 stars G792 which G3739 saw G1492 (G5627) in G1909 My G3450 hand...
‘Write therefore the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will happen hereafter, the mystery of the seven stars which you saw in my right hand, and the seven gold...
Revelation 1:20. THE MYSTERY OF THE STARS WHICH THOU SAWEST UPON MY RIGHT HAND. It is generally agreed that the word ‘mystery' here depends on ‘write,' and that it is in apposition with the ‘things wh...
We are introduced to a vision of the Saviour, in that light in which He is peculiarly presented to us in the Apocalypse the Head of His Church, the great High Priest and King of His people. From Him t...
THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS (το μυστηριον των επτα αστερων). On the word μυστηριον see on Matthew 13:11; 2 Thessalonians 2:7; Colossians 1:26. Here it means the inner meaning (the secret symbol)...
ANGELS The natural explanation of the "messengers" is that they were men sent by the seven churches to ascertain the state of the aged apostle, now an exile in Patmos (compare (Philippians 4:18) but...
Revelation 1:20 Note the fitness of the symbol of the golden candlestick. I. In its position. The golden candlestick stood within the Holy of holies, hidden from the view of all without by the curtai...
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...
In the first fourteen verses we have given to us part of the glowing description of the glories of the ascended Christ, and here it is completed. Revelation 1:15. _And his feet like unto fine brass,...
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...
SEVEN STARS. The "angels" of the seven churches. "Angel" means "messenger," and is used for both human and heavenly messengers in the Bible [in the original language]. "Angels" here must refer to the...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 1:20 ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES. Perhaps human messengers, human pastors, or literal angels sent as messengers. They are probably symbols of each church’s character....
"Write things seen, things which are, things hereafter." The events which this book contains were, some of them, already transpiring; some in the very near future; some in a distant and far distant fu...
_CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 1:12. SEE THE VOICE.—“See Him whose voice I heard.” SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS.—Compare Zechariah 4:2. Lamp-stands would be a better term. Not one candlestick...
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...
_20 THE MYSTERY OF THE SEVEN STARS WHICH THOU SAWEST IN MY RIGHT HAND, AND THE SEVEN GOLDEN CANDLESTICKS. THE SEVEN STARS ARE THE ANGELS OF THE SEVEN CHURCHES: AND THE SEVEN CANDLESTICKS WHICH THOU SA...
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...
1 Timothy 3:14; Luke 8:10; Malachi 2:7; Matthew 13:11; Matthew 5:15;...
CHRIST AMONG THE CHURCHES Revelation 1:8 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We enter in this marvelously descriptive chapter, centering our thoughts upon the appearance of Christ as He walks among His Churches. 1....
Write first the mystery — The mysterious meaning of the seven stars — St. John knew better than we do, in how many respects these stars were a proper emblem of those angels: how nearly they resembled...