Verse 16
16. I Jesus Giving now in his own person his attestation to this book as really from his commissioned angel.
In the churches Greek, επι , literally, upon; but upon as an audience on whom the utterances are expended as to them addressed, Revelation 2:7. So in Revelation 10:11, the same preposition (rendered in our translation before) does not signify that the peoples named would be the subject of the prophecies, (as Dusterdieck insists,) but would be the object of their direct address.
The churches First the seven Churches of Asia, and through them to the churches of all lands and ages.
Root and the offspring Note on Revelation 5:5.
The bright and morning star A beautiful image of the Saviour, presented by St. John here on the threshold of the celestial world. This new world is the morning of our endless existence; in its gray dawn happy is the man upon whose faith beams this bright and morning star, the promise and harbinger of an eternal day.
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