Revelation 5:9-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Revelation 5:6-14

Here, I. The apostle beholds this book taken into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ, in order to its being unsealed and opened by him. Here Christ is described, 1. By his place and station: In the midst of the throne, and of the four beasts, and of the elders. He was on the same throne with the Father; he was nearer to him than either the elders or ministers of the churches. Christ, as man and Mediator, is subordinate to God the Father, but is nearer to him than all the creatures; for in him... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - Revelation 5:7-14

5:7-14 And the Lamb came and received the roll from the right hand of him who was seated on the throne. When it had received the roll, the four living creatures fell before the Lamb and so did the twenty-four elders, each of whom had a harp and golden bowls laden with incenses, which are the prayers of God's dedicated people. And they sang a new song and this is what they sang: Worthy are you to receive the roll and to open its seals, because you were slain, and so at the price of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 5:9

And they sung a new song ,.... Upon a new occasion and subject, redemption by the blood of the Lamb, and his worthiness to open the sealed book; and in distinction from the old song of Moses and the children of Israel at the Red sea; and this was a most famous and excellent song, an unheard of one, and which none could learn, or sing, but the redeemed of the Lamb: saying, thou art worthy to take the book, and open the seals thereof . The Arabic version reads, "thou, O Lamb"; the reasons... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 5:10

And hast made us unto our God kings and priests ,.... See Gill on Revelation 1:6 . The Alexandrian copy, and Complutensian edition, and the Syriac, Arabic, and the Ethiopic versions, read "them", instead of "us": and we shall reign on the earth ; meaning not merely in a spiritual sense, through grace reigning over sin and corruption, through Satan being bruised under their feet, and through the victory they have in Christ over the world, but in the millennium state, in the thousand... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 5:11

And I beheld, and heard the voice of many angels ,.... Immaterial spirits, made by Christ, and worshippers of him, and ministering spirits to him and his, the holy and elect angels, who are confirmed in their state by Christ; these John beheld in a visionary way, and heard the voices and articulate sounds formed by them; and there were many of them; how many there are, or were here, cannot be said; we read of a multitude of heavenly host that appeared at the incarnation of Christ, and of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 5:12

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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 5:13

And every creature which is in heaven ,.... Animate or inanimate, angels, and the spirits of just men made perfect, sun, moon, and stars, and the fowls of the air: and on the earth ; men and beasts, and every creeping thing, mountains, hills, fruitful trees, and all cedars: and under the earth: in the bowels of it, metals, minerals, and everything of that kind: and such as are in the sea ; that sail in ships upon the mighty waters, and fishes great and small that are therein: and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Revelation 5:14

And the four beasts said, Amen ,.... Giving their assent to what the angels and every creature said, and expressing their desires and wishes that so it might be, and also their faith, that so it was, and would be: and the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever ; either God the Father, who sat upon the throne, and is so described, Revelation 4:9 ; or else the Lamb who had been slain, and was now alive, and lives for evermore; or both of them,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:9

A new song - Composed on the matters and blessings of the Gospel, which was just now opened on earth. But new song may signify a most excellent song; and by this the Gospel and its blessings are probably signified. The Gospel is called a new song, Psalm 96:1 . And perhaps there is an allusion in the harps here to Psalm 144:9 ; : I will sing a New Song unto thee, O God: upon a Psaltery, and an Instrument of Ten Strings, etc. The same form of speech is found, Isaiah 42:10 ; : Sing unto... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 5:10

Kings and priests - See Exodus 19:6 ; (note); 1 Peter 2:5 ; (note), 1 Peter 2:9 ; (note), and the notes there. read more

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