Verse 11
c. Surrounding circle of ANGELS; with song, Revelation 7:11-12 .
11. All the angels Of Revelation 5:11.
Stood Literally, Greek pluperfect, had stood; had been standing all the time while the seer was contemplating the great multitude, so that as he awakes from that reverie this angel throng break on his view as a sort of sublime surprise. The theophanic court is filled with the multitude, and then in larger circle the angel band surrounds the whole. It must have been with a very keen, intuitive eye that our seer could recognise the enfoldings of so many visions.
On their faces It was no decorous bow, no solemn kneel, but a total prostration, with their foreheads touching the celestial ground.
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