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**After.** App-104 .
**this** = these things, as [Revelation 1:19](../../../kjv/revelation/1/19) .
**looked.** App-133 .
**behold.** App-133 .
***was*** **opened.** i.e. already opened.
**heaven.** See [Revelation 3:12](../../../kjv/revelation/3/12) .
**first.** Greek."former". See [Revelation 1:10](../../../kjv/revelation/1/10) .
**it were.** Omit.
**things** = what things.
**which.** Omit.
**be** = come to pass.
**hereafter** = after (Greek. *meta,* above) these things.

**was** = became, came to be. See [Revelation 1:9](../../../kjv/revelation/1/9) , [Revelation 1:10](../../../kjv/revelation/1/10) .
**in the Spirit.** i.e. in or by the power of the Spirit, as [Revelation 1:10](../../../kjv/revelation/1/10) .
**Spirit.** App-101 .
**sat** = sitting.

**look upon.** Compare App-133 .
**jasper** = jasper stone. According to Pliny, this stone was translucent.
**sardine stone** = sardius stone. A precious stone from Sardis, red in color.
**rainbow.** Greek. *iris.* Only here and [Revelation 10:1](../../../kjv/revelation/10/1) . In [Genesis 9:13](../../../kjv/genesis/9/13) ; [Ezekiel 1:28](../../../kjv/ezekiel/1/28) , &c, the Septuagint uses *toxon,* bow, for the Hebrew *kesheth.*
**insight.** Same words as "to look upon", above.
**unto** = to.
**emerald.** Only here. A kindred word in [Revelation 21:19](../../../kjv/revelation/21/19) , and in [Exodus 28:18](../../../kjv/exodus/28/18) with [Exodus 39:8](../../../kjv/exodus/39/8) (Septuagint)

**four and twenty.** See App-10 and App-197 .
**seats** = thrones, as [Revelation 4:2](../../../kjv/revelation/4/2) . See [Revelation 1:4](../../../kjv/revelation/1/4) .
**saw.** The texts omit.
**elders.** Greek. *presbuteros.* These are evidently heavenly beings, "a pattern" after which David arranged his twenty-four courses of the sons of Aaron ([1 Chronicles 24:3-5](../../../kjv/1-chronicles/24/3-5) ).
**they had.** The texts omit.
**crowns of gold.** The only other wearer is the Son of Man ([Revelation 14:14](../../../kjv/revelation/14/14) ), a fact which proves the exalted station of these "elders".

**proceeded** = proceed.
**seven.** See App-197 .
**lamps.** App-130 . See [John 18:3](../../../kjv/john/18/3) .
**burning.** Greek. *kaio.* See Joh 5:55 .
**Spirits.** App-101 .

***there was*** **. glass.** The texts read "as it were a glassy sea".
**unto** = to.
**round about.** Greek. *kuklo.* In Rev. only here and [Revelation 7:11](../../../kjv/revelation/7/11) . Occurs: [Mark 3:34](../../../kjv/mark/3/34) .
**were.** Omit.
**beasts** = living ones, or living creatures (as [Hebrews 13:11](../../../kjv/hebrews/13/11) , first occurance). Greek. *zoon.* Occurs twenty times ( App-10 ). Not the word in [Revelation 13](../../../kjv/revelation/13) and [Revelation 17](../../../kjv/revelation/17) . These *zoa* are the cherubim of [Genesis 3:24](../../../kjv/genesis/3/24) .[Ezekiel 1:5-14](../../../kjv/ezekiel/1/5-14) . Compare [Ezekiel 10:20](../../../kjv/ezekiel/10/20) . They are distinguished from angels ([Revelation 5:8](../../../kjv/revelation/5/8) ; [Revelation 5:11](../../../kjv/revelation/5/11) ). These *zoa* speak of creation and of redemption also.
**eyes.** See [Ezekiel 1:8](../../../kjv/ezekiel/1/8) ; [Ezekiel 10:12](../../../kjv/ezekiel/10/12) .

**had** = having, as the texts.
**man.** App-123 .

**and they were** = are.
**Holy, &c.** The first of the seventeen ( App-10 ) heavenly utterances in Rev. Here, [Revelation 4:8](../../../kjv/revelation/4/8) ; [Revelation 4:11](../../../kjv/revelation/4/11) ; [Revelation 5:9](../../../kjv/revelation/5/9) , [Revelation 5:10](../../../kjv/revelation/5/10) ; [Revelation 5:12](../../../kjv/revelation/5/12) ; [Revelation 5:13](../../../kjv/revelation/5/13) ; [Revelation 5:5](../../../kjv/revelation/5/5) . -14- (Amen); [Revelation 7:10](../../../kjv/revelation/7/10) ; [Revelation 7:12](../../../kjv/revelation/7/12) ; [Revelation 11:15](../../../kjv/revelation/11/15) ; [Revelation 11:17](../../../kjv/revelation/11/17) ; [Revelation 12:10-12](../../../kjv/revelation/12/10-12) ; [Revelation 14:13](../../../kjv/revelation/14/13) ; [Revelation 15:3](../../../kjv/revelation/15/3) ; [Revelation 19:1-3](../../../kjv/revelation/19/1-3) ; [Revelation 19:4](../../../kjv/revelation/19/4) ; [Revelation 19:5](../../../kjv/revelation/19/5) ; [Revelation 19:6](../../../kjv/revelation/19/6) , [Revelation 19:7](../../../kjv/revelation/19/7) .
**Holy . . . holy.** God's holiness proclaimed, prior to judgment. See [Psalms 93](../../../kjv/psalms/93) ; [Psalms 97](../../../kjv/psalms/97) ; [Psalms 99](../../../kjv/psalms/99) , and [Isaiah 6:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/3) . Compare [Numbers 6:24-26](../../../kjv/numbers/6/24-26) .
**Almighty.** See [Revelation 1:8](../../../kjv/revelation/1/8) .

**those** = the.
**give** = shall give.
**glory.** See p. 1511.
**That sat** = the *One* sitting.
**for ever, &c.** App-151 .

**fall** = shall fall.
**worship** = shall worship.
**cast** = shall cast.

**O LORD.** The texts read "our LORD and our God" ( App-98 .)
**glory, honour, power.** The texts place article "the" before each.
**glory** , as [Revelation 4:9](../../../kjv/revelation/4/9) .
**power.** App-172 .1; Rev 176:1 .
**hast created** = didst create. Greek. *ktizo.* In Rev. only here and [Revelation 10:6](../../../kjv/revelation/10/6) .
**pleasure.** App-102 .
**are.** The texts read "were".

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