Revelation 1:7-8 - Exposition

It is difficult to determine the exact connexion of these verses with one another, and with what precedes and follows. It seems best to make Revelation 1:7 a kind of appendix to the salutation, and Revelation 1:8 a kind of prelude to the whole book. They each give us one of the fundamental thoughts of the Apocalypse; Revelation 1:7 , Christ's certain return to judgment; Revelation 1:8 , his perfect Divinity.