Revelation 6:1-16:21 KJV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 6:1

And I saw - Or, I looked. He fixed his eye attentively on what was passing, as promising important disclosures. No one had been found in the universe who could open the seals but the Lamb of God Revelation 5:2-4; and it was natural for John, therefore, to look upon the transaction with profound interest.When the Lamb opened one of the seals - See the notes on Revelation 5:1, Revelation 5:5. This was the first or outermost of the seals, and its being broken would permit a certain portion of the... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 6:1-2

Revelation 6:1-2. And Being all attention to this wonderful scene; I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals Of the book which he had taken from the hand of him that sat on the throne; and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder Signifying the great importance of the event about to be disclosed; one of the four living creatures That is, it seems, the first, which was like a lion, looking forward toward the east, toward Asia and Syria, where the prophecy had its principal... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 6:1-17

6:1-8:5 THE SEVEN SEALSMuch of the next part of the book records three series of judgment visions that John saw - the seven seals (6:1-8:5), the seven trumpets (8:6-11:19) and the seven bowls of wrath (15:1-16:21). John also saw another series of visions, the seven thunders, but God did not allow him to record them (10:3-4). This is a reminder that God has not given us all the information about what he is doing, and will yet do, as he brings his purposes in the world to fulfilment.In the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 6:1

saw. App-133 . Lamb. See Revelation 5:6 . seals. Read "seven seals", with texts. as . . . saying. Read, "one of the four zoa saying as with a voice of thunder". beasts. See Revelation 4:6 . and see. All the texts omit. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 6:1

REV:6To this point, Revelation has been relatively easy to interpret; but, beginning with this chapter, there are scores of interpretations, with multiple schools of interpreters, following all kinds of bizarre and fanciful "explanations" of what is here written. (See introduction for a discussion of some of the more important methods followed by various groups.) In a sense, one must be accounted rather bold to write confidently of things about which there is so much disagreement; but, on the... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 6:1-2

Revelation 6:1-2. And I saw, &c.— St. John had seen, in the former part of his vision, a representation of the majesty, glory, power, and supreme authority of God; and also the sealed book, in which were contained the orders of the divine Providence concerning the church and world, delivered to Christ the Lamb of God, to open and reveal it, for the encouragement of the church in patience and faithfulness; together with the adoration of the church on this solemn occasion. Now this revelation... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 6:1

1. one of the seals—The oldest manuscripts, A, B, C, Vulgate, and Syriac read, "one of the seven seals." noise—The three oldest manuscripts read this in the nominative or dative, not the genitive, as English Version, "I heard one from among the four living creatures saying, as (it were) the voice (or, 'as with the voice') of thunder." The first living creature was like a lion (Revelation 4:7): his voice is in consonance. Implying the lion-like boldness with which, in the successive great... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 6:1

"I saw" marks the continuation of what John had seen that chapters 4 and 5 record, but also the commencement of revelation concerning future events on earth. Chapters 1-5 have introduced this revelation. John was an eyewitness of this revelation that came to him like action scenes in a film rather than as words from the pages of a book.When the Lamb broke the first of the seven seals on the scroll that He had taken from God, one of the four creatures invited someone to "Come." This was probably... read more

Thomas Constable