And I saw an angel come down from heaven, having the key of the bottomless pit and a great chain in his hand.
KJV
Parallel translations
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key of the abyss and a great chain in his hand.
WEB
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven with the key to the Abyss, holding in his hand a great chain.
YLT
And I saw a messenger coming down out of the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain over his hand,
DBT
And I saw an angel descending from the heaven, having the key of the abyss, and a great chain in his hand.
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