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#1:1 place; (b-19)
 Aorist, lit. 'have taken place,' perhaps 'be accomplished.'

#1:1 signified (c-22)
 * Lit. 'made known by signs.'

#1:3 words (d-11)
 _Logos_, as throughout this book, save ch. 17.17, _rhema_.
 See Note at John 17.14.

#1:4 come; (e-26)
#1:8 come, (e-22)
 It is not 'about to come,' for the _act_ of the Lord's coming
 is not immediately before the mind. I will not say there is no
 allusion to the future awaited exercise of divine power; for in
 Daniel, not only is the Son of man brought before the Ancient
 of days, but the Ancient of days comes. In the words 'who is,
 and was, and is to come,' there is surely reference to the
 abiding nature of his being. 'Who is to come' seems to me thus
 to render more truly the sense than any other form of words.
 The Greek has the future sense. See Mark 10.30, Luke 18.30; and
 Mark 11.10 partly runs into this sense. 'The coming one' became
 a name of the expected Messiah, as in Matt. 11.3, and in Heb.
 10.37. But note, 'essential being' is put first, 'who is;' and
 then 'time past, and to come.' 'Who is' asserts the essential
 nature of his being.

#1:5 from (f-10)
 Lit. 'of the dead.'

#1:6 made (g-2)
 Lit. 'he has made.' 'Loves' and 'has washed' are participles.

#1:7 which (h-15)
 _Hostis_: as Matt. 7.24.

#1:7 land (i-25)
 Or 'earth.' See Note at Matt. 5.5.

#1:8 Omega, (k-7)
 Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters of the Greek
 alphabet.

#1:8 God, (l-11)
 'Jehovah Elohim,' as Luke 1.32; see chs. 4.8; 15.3; 18.8;
 21.22; 22.5,6.

#1:8 Almighty. (m-24)
 'The Almighty' always has the article in Greek in the
 Revelation.

#1:9 patience, (n-13)
 _Hupomone_, 'endurance:' see Jas. 5.7; so chs. 2.2,3,19;
 13.10; 14.12. The words 'tribulation,' 'kingdom,' 'patience'
 are intimately connected, being brought together under one head
 by one article in the Greek.

#1:9 was (o-16)
 _Ginomai_: see John 1.17. His being there was an event which
 happened on account of the word of God. So 'became,' ver. 10.

#1:10 Spirit (p-5)
 'In [the] Spirit' is a _state_ into which he entered. See
 Note c, Matt. 3.11.

#1:10 day, (a-9)
 The 'dominical' or 'lordly' day -- characterized by belonging
 to the Lord, as 'Lord's,' 1Cor. 11.20.

#1:11 write (b-5)
#1:11 send (b-10)
 Aorist, 'have it written and sent:' it is to be a complete
 thing done.

#1:12 lamps, (c-20)
 Or 'lampstands' (_luchnia_) but simply here, I think, 'lamps'
 as compared with Heb. 9.2, where it is clearly the
 'candlestick' or 'lampstand.' If _luchnos_ and _luchnia_ are
 distinguished, _luchnia_ is the stand. The words are so
 distinguished in Matt. 5.15, Luke 8.16; 11.33.

#1:13 [the] (d-11)
 Or 'a Son of man.' See Dan. 7.13, also without the article.
 It is not likeness to a person John knew, but to the character
 known by this title in scripture. To have seen angels in heaven
 would have been no wonder, but to see one as 'Son of man' was.
 This chapter corresponds to Dan. 7: only now he was seen on
 earth. It was the title the Lord habitually took. This made it
 personal; but in Daniel, though surely the same person, it was
 characteristic. Here, too, it is characteristic. Still the
 person designated is now known, and it is difficult to say 'a
 Son of man,' because of excluding this. 'Son-of-man-like' is
 feeble, it might only mean a manner: see ch. 14.14.

#1:15 fine (e-5)
 Or 'shining.'

#1:18 became (f-7)
 _Ginomai_: see John 1.17. Became what he was not before.

#1:18 hades. (g-27)
 Hades: see Note, Matt. 11.23.

#1:19 are, (h-11)
#1:19 are (h-16)
 The first 'are' is plural; 'are about to' is singular.

#1:20 angels (i-25)
 The word has also the sense of 'messengers:' see Note e, ch.
 2.20.

#2:8 became (a-20)
 See Note f, ch. 1.18.

#2:8 lived: (b-23)
 That is, after having died: see chs. 1.17,18; 13.14; Matt.
 9.18; Rom 14.9.

#2:11 wise (c-22)
 A strong negative.

#2:18 fine (d-33)
 Or 'shining.'

#2:20 woman (e-10)
 Some read 'thy wife,' alluding doubtless to Jezebel's
 connexion with responsible Ahab. And that is the meaning I
 believe of 'angel;' the symbolical representative of the
 assembly seen in those responsible in it, which indeed all
 really are. Hence 'thee,' and 'to you,' 'to you each,' and 'the
 rest.'

#2:20 servants (f-24)
 Or 'bondmen,' as ch. 1.1.

#2:23 know (g-14)
 _Ginosko_: chs. 2.23,24; 3.3,9; elsewhere _Oida_ in this
 book: see 1Cor. 8.1.

#2:24 who (a-19)
 'Such as.'

#2:24 known (b-22)
 See Note, ver. 23.

#3:2  (c-1)
 _Ginomai_. Lit. 'become so.'

#3:2 are (d-10)
 The imperfect tense. I translate 'are,' because 'were'
 supposes they are no longer 'about to die,' which is contrary
 to the passage. Perhaps 'have been' may be used. It refers to
 what they were found to be when he strengthened them. The point
 of departure of thought is not the writer's when writing, but
 the strengthener's when strengthening.

#3:3 know (e-32)
#3:9 know (e-38)
 See Note, ch. 2.23.

#3:7 open: (f-39)
 Some authorities read 'opens.'

#3:8 set (g-8)
#3:9 make (g-3)
 Lit. 'give' or 'have given' (ver. 8) and 'give' (ver. 9).

#3:9 homage (h-32)
 _Proskuneo_, see Matt. 4.10. This is the word translated 'do
 homage' or 'worship' throughout Revelation.

#3:10 patience, (i-9)
 _Hupomone_;, 'endurance:' see ch. 1.9 and Note f, Jas. 5.7.

#3:12 temple (a-12)
 _Naos_, the house itself (or the inner shrine): see 1Cor.
 9.13.

#3:18 buy (b-5)
#3:18 be (b-15)
#3:18 clothed, (b-24)
#3:18 manifest; (b-36)
 All aorists, having the force of an accomplished fact,
 'mayest have become,' 'have got into that state.'

#3:19 love; (c-9)
 _Phileo_: see Note b, John 21.15.

#3:20 stand (d-3)
 Meaning 'I have placed myself there and am standing:' see
 John 1.26.

#4:3 round (e-20)
#4:4 round (e-2)
#4:6 around (e-19)
 I use 'round' for what is connected with anything (not
 necessarily united to it) as a centre, as the tire of a wheel,
 but 'around' is used for detached objects encircling.

#4:5 lamps (f-15)
 _Lampas_: only here and ch. 8.10 where the word is translated
 'torch.' Not the lamp as a utensil (_luchnia_, ch. 1.13), but
 what furnished the light itself

#4:8 creatures, (a-5)
 See Isa. 6.2,3.

#4:8 round (b-14)
 I judge that Ezek. 10.12 shows that 'round' belongs to the
 eyes.

#4:8 not (c-25)
 I prefer 'cease not' to 'have no rest,' because in English
 'having no rest' means constant fatigue. The Greek here means
 'no intermission of action.'

#4:8 God (d-34)
 See Note l, ch. 1.8.

#4:8 was, (e-37)
 On the throne, 'who was' comes first. It is in time: see
 Note, ch. 1.4.

#4:10 homage (f-15)
 See Note h, ch. 3.9.

#5:1 sat (g-11)
#5:7 sat (g-15)
 Or 'that sits.' It is the present tense, and is really a
 title, 'the sitter on the throne.'

#5:6 Lamb (h-24)
 _Arnion_: a diminutive, used throughout Revelation: as John
 21.15.

#5:8 having (i-19)
 'Having' refers strictly only to 'elders.'

#5:9 redeemed (k-27)
 Or 'bought,' as ch. 14.3,4.

#5:10 kings (l-7)
 Some authorities here read 'a kingdom,' as in ch. 1.6, but it
 is rather here a title or name.

#5:11 around (m-12)
 See Note, ch. 4.3.

#5:14 homage. (a-15)
 See Note h, ch. 3.9.

#6:1 see]. (b-30)
#6:3 see]. (b-17)
#6:5 see]. (b-17)
#6:7 see]. (b-20)
 The words 'and see' here and vers. 3,5,7, are very doubtful
 and probably added in some MSS.

#6:2 given (c-22)
#6:4 given (c-36)
 Or 'had been given to him.' It is not expressive of a
 particular time. He had one which was given him. It is the
 aorist, as 'went forth.'

#6:4 take (d-21)
#6:4 slay (d-30)
 Aorist tense, see Note, ver. 2.

#6:8 hades (e-20)
 See Note, Matt. 11.23.

#6:8 earth. (f-52)
 See Ezek. 14.21.

#6:10 long, (g-10)
 Lit. 'Until when.'

#6:10 Ruler, (h-13)
 _Despotes_, translated 'Lord' in Acts 4.24. Here, 'Sovereign
 Ruler.'

#6:16 Fall (a-11)
#6:16 hidden (a-17)
 The aorist.

#7:3 bondmen (b-18)
 _Doulos_: as chs. 2.20; 10.7; 11.18; 15.3; 19.2,5; 22.3,6.

#7:11 worshipped (c-26)
 See Note h, ch. 3.9.

#7:14 washed (d-27)