And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he saith unto me, Seal not up the words of the prophecy of this book; for the time is at hand.
Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of prophecy in this book, because the time is near.
And he saith to me, `Thou mayest not seal the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is nigh;
And he says to me, Seal not the words of the prophecy of this book. The time is near.
About this book
New Testament▾
About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both