Revelation 1:14 KJV — MannaFest

Revelation 1:14

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

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ASV

And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

WEB

The hair of His head was white like wool, as white as snow, and His eyes were like a blazing fire.

YLT

and his head and hairs white, as if white wool--as snow, and his eyes as a flame of fire;

DBT

his head and hair white like white wool, as snow; and his eyes as a flame of fire;

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Revelation — 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

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Daniel 10:6
His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.
Daniel 7:9
I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Revelation 2:18
And unto the angel of the church in Thyatira write; These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like unto a flame of fire, and his feet are like fine brass;
Revelation 19:12
His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.
Matthew 28:3
His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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His head and his hair - That is, the hair of his head, not his whole head. Were white as white wool - Like the Ancient of Days, represented in Daniel's vision, Dan. vii, 9. Wool is commonly supposed to be an emblem of eternity.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Title Back Reference Revelation 2:18
Thyatira title 'eyes like a flame of fire, feet like burnished brass' re-cites Rev 1:14-15.
biblical text ASV/WEB (PD); intratextual

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

REV 1:14DAN 7:9 MRK 9:3
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
REV 1:14DAN 7:9 MAT 17:2
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
REV 1:14REV 19:12 REV 19:16
REV 1:14DAN 7:9 DAN 7:13
REV 1:14REV 2:18 REV 1:14-15
REV 1:14REV 19:12 LUK 10:22
REV 1:14DAN 7:9 REV 19:18
REV 1:14DAN 7:9 DAN 7:22

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