Revelation 5:12

Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. TO RECEIVE (THE) POWER. The remaining six (the whole being seven, implying perfection) are under the one Greek article, before "power," as they form one complete aggregate belonging to God and His coequal, the Lamb. Compare , where each of all seven has the article. RICHES - spiritual and earthly. BLESSING - ascribed praise: the will on the creature's part, though unaccompanied by the power, to return blessing for blessing conferred (Alford)....

8-14 It is matter of joy to all the world, to see that God deals with men in grace and mercy through the Redeemer. He governs the world, not merely as a Creator, but as our Saviour. The harps were instruments of praise; the vials were full of odours, or incense, which signify the prayers of the saints: prayer and praise should always go together. Christ has redeemed his people from the bondage of sin, guilt, and Satan. He has not only purchased liberty for them, but the highest honour and preferment; he made them kings and priests; kings, to rule over their own spirits, and to overcome the world, and the evil one; and he makes them priests; giving them access to himself, and liberty to offer up spiritual sacrifices. What words can more fully declare that Christ is, and ought to be worshipped, equally with the Father, by all creatures, to all eternity! Happy those who shall adore and pra...

Verse Revelation 5:12. _TO RECEIVE POWER_] That is, Jesus Christ is worthy _to_ _take_, λαβειν, to have ascribed to him, _power_-omnipotence; _riches_-beneficence; _wisdom_-omniscience; _strength_-power in prevalent exercise; _honour_-the highest reputation for what he has done; _glory_-the praise due to such actions; _and blessing_-the thankful acknowledgments of the whole creation. Here are seven different species of praise; and this is exactly agreeable to the rabbinical forms, which the author of this book keeps constantly in view. See _Sepher Rasiel_, fol. 39, 2: "To thee belongs כבוד cabod, _glory_; גדולה gedulah, _magnitude_; גבורה geburah, _might_; הממלכה hammamlakah, _the kingdom_; התפארת hattiphereth, _the honour_; הנצח hannetsach, _the victory_; וההוד vehahod, and _the praise_....

SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN - See the notes on Revelation 5:2, Revelation 5:9. The idea here is, that the fact that he was slain, or was made a sacrifice for sin, was the ground or reason for what is here ascribed to him. Compare the notes on Revelation 5:5. TO RECEIVE POWER - Power or authority to rule over all things. Compare notes on Matthew 28:18. The meaning here is, that he was worthy that these things should be ascribed to him, or to be addressed and acknowledged as possessing them. A part of these things were his in vi

EXPOSITION REVELATION 5:1 AND I SAW. As in Revelation 4:1, this phrase introduces a new incident in the vision. That which had been witnessed remained, but a further development now takes place. Revelation 4:1. relates the revelation of the glory of the Triune God (see on Revelation 4:2) surrounded by his Church and creation. The glory of Jesus Christ, the Lamb, is now set forth, since he is the only One worthy to receive and declare to his Church the mystery contained in the sealed book. IN THE RIGHT HAND; _upon the right hand _(ἐπί)_. _T

SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE,.... To signify their zeal, fervour, and affection for Christ, and to make a free, open, and public acknowledgment of him, and that all might hear of his worthiness, and of the praise and glory that were due unto him: WORTHY IS THE LAMB THAT WAS SLAIN; they address him as the Lamb, and not as the Lord of lords, and their Lord; and speak of him as having been slain, and celebrate the virtue and efficacy of his sufferings and death, and ascribe his worthiness to receive glory and honour thereunto; but do not add, as the living creatures and elders do, "and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood"; because, though they were the subjects and objects of confirming grace by Christ, yet not of redeeming grace: it follows, TO RECEIVE POWER AND RICHES, AND WISDOM, AND STRENGTH, AND HONOUR, AND GLORY, AND BLESSING; as the book has seven seals to be unloosed, and Christ had...

Revelation 5:1 . Much has been written about the meaning of the book written within and on the back side, and sealed with seven seals. What the book contains is no secret whatever. Beginning with the sixth chapter the seals are opened and after they are all broken the contents of the book are made known. The book contains the judgments for this earth preceding His coming in power and glory and the beginning of His reign. It is, therefore, the book of the righteous judgments of God, preceding the glorious manifestation of the King of Kings. Revelation 5:4 . John receives the answer to the question the strong angel had proclaimed. One of the elders told him, “Behold the lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and the seven seals thereof.” No further co

REVELATION 5. THE VISION OF HEAVEN (_continued)._ Ch. 4 gives us the vision of the majesty and glory of God, ch. 5 the vision of the Lamb standing as though it had been slain. The theme of Revelation 4 is the creative power of God: the theme of Revelation 5 the redemptive power of Christ. REVELATION 5:1. A BOOK: _ i.e._ the book of destiny, containing the secrets of the future, probably in the form of a papyrus roll, sealed with seven seals for the sake of security. The imagery is taken from Ezekiel 2:9. [The view that the book is the book of destiny is probably correct. Huschke, followed by Zahn, J. Weiss, and Clemen, takes it to be a will. Seven witnesses would attest a will, each affixing his seal. Before the will could be executed the seals had to be broken; hence failure to break

The evidence for the current view rests solely upon the formerly accepted text of the Doxology (song), in which the living beings and the elders are represented as uniting, (Chapter 5:10, 11.) Criticism has shown that, in this instance, the text of the Recepta is corrupt; it has established the fact that _heemas_ (us) and _basileusomen_ (we will rule) are corruptions of _autous_ (them) and _basileusousin_ (they will rule), and has rendered probable (_certain,_ in the opinion of Lange, Alford and Tischendorf,) the further fact that the _heemas_ (us) of verse. is an interpolation.--_ Am. Editor of Lange on Revelation, page_ 152....

THE ROLL IN THE HAND OF GOD (Revelation 5:1) _ 5:1 And in the right hand of him who was seated on the throne I saw a roll written on the front and on the back, and seated with seven seals._ We must try to visualize the picture which John is drawing. It is taken from the vision of Ezekiel: "And, when I looked, behold, a hand was stretched out to me; and lo, a written scroll was in it; and he spread it before me; and it had writing on the front and on the back; and there were written on it words of lamentation and mourning and woe" (Ezekiel 2:9-10). We must note that it was a roll and not a book which was in the hand of God. In the ancient world, down to the second century A.D., the form of literary work was the roll, not the book. The roll was made of papyrus, manufacture