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Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 4:1-11

Revelation 4:1-11Behold, a door was opened in heaven.The open doorI. The open door.1. The place where the open door was seen: “In heaven.” This implies several important things.(1) The changed sphere of operation.(a) The “golden lampstands” represented Churches, not in heaven, but on earth.(b) The “seven stars” represented the pastors of those Churches.(c) Now the seer’s attention is called from the condition of things on earth to a condition of things in heaven. This is fruitful of... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 4:7-8

7 And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle. 8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him ; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. Ver. 8. Full of eyes within ] To look to themselves also as well as to the flock, Acts 20:28 , lest while they preach to... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 4:7

the first beast: Revelation 4:6, Genesis 49:9, Numbers 2:2-Nahum :, Numbers 23:24, Numbers 24:9, Proverbs 28:2, Ezekiel 1:10, Ezekiel 10:14, Ezekiel 10:21 like a calf: Ezekiel 1:10, 1 Corinthians 9:9, 1 Corinthians 9:10 as: 1 Corinthians 14:20 a flying: Deuteronomy 28:49, 2 Samuel 1:23, Isaiah 40:31, Ezekiel 1:8, Ezekiel 1:10, Ezekiel 10:14, Daniel 7:4, Obadiah 1:4 Reciprocal: 1 Kings 7:25 - General 1 Kings 7:29 - lions 2 Chronicles 4:3 - And under Psalms 118:3 - General Ezekiel 1:6 -... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 4:7

And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.And the first — Just such were the four cherubim in Ezekiel, who supported the moving throne of God; whereas each of those that overshadowed the mercy-seat in the holy of holies had all these four faces: whence a late great man supposes them to have been emblematic of the Trinity, and the incarnation of the second Person.A flying eagle —... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 4:1-11

PART SECOND. THE THEOPHANIC APOCALYPSE. The Theophany in divine royal state, Revelation 4:1-6. The scene of the Apocalypse opens with a presentation of GOD enthroned, surrounded with his glorious Court of ministers, seated for the purpose of opening the predictive seals from which are presented the pictorial phases of the Messianic dispensation. He who as omnipresent fills all space, selects a point of manifestation, and puts on a semblance of finite personality in order to disclose a... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 4:7

The beasts, or cherubim; the four and twenty elders, Revelation 4:7-11. 7. Lion… calf… man… eagle These four are the cherubim, the precedent of which will be found in the first chapter of Ezekiel. But the old prophet’s cherubim had each one the four faces and the four wings. This, and the fact that in Revelation 5:8, they “fell down before the Lamb,” suggests that these were human in form and animal only in face. They thus symbolize the living creation in its highest aspects and its... read more

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