Revelation 4:8 BSB — MannaFest

Revelation 4:8

And each of the four living creatures had six wings and was covered with eyes all around and within. Day and night they never stop saying: “Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”

BSB

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ASV

And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and who is to come.

KJV

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

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Commentary

4 voices

Athanasius of Alexandria

296–373

ON LUKE 10:22 (373)

For what is nearer [God] than the Cherubim or the Seraphim? And yet they, not even seeing Him, nor standing on their feet, nor even with bare, but as it were with veiled faces, offer their praises, with untiring lips doing nought else but glorify the divine and ineffable nature with the Trisagion.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

There are two words in the original, very different from each other; both which we translate holy. The one means properly merciful; but the other, which occurs here, implies much more. This holiness is the sum of all praise, which is given to the almighty Creator, for all that he does and reveals concerning himself, till the new song brings with it new matter of glory.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

The four beasts had each of them six wings - I have already observed, in the preface to this book, that the phraseology is rabbinical; I might have added, and the imagery also. We have almost a counterpart of this description in Pirkey Elieser. chap. 4. I shall give the substance of this from Schoettgen. “Four troops of ministering angels praise the holy blessed God: the first is Michael, at the right hand; the next is Gabriel, at the left; the third is Uriel, before; and the fourth is Raphael, behind him.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

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Original language & word study

41 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
τὰ	ta	the	G3588 →
τέσσαρα	tessara	four	G5064 →
ζῷα,	zōa	living creatures,	G2226 →
ἓν	hen	one	G1520 →
καθ᾽	kath᾽	for	G2596 →
ἓν	hen	one	G1520 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
ἔχων	echōn	he having	G2192 →
ἀνὰ	ana	respectively	G303 →
πτέρυγας	pterugas	wings	G4420 →
ἕξ	hex	six	G1803 →
κυκλόθεν	kuklothen	around	G2943 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἔσωθεν	esōthen	within	G2081 →
γέμουσιν	gemousin	full	G1073 →
ὀφθαλμῶν	ophthalmōn	of eyes	G3788 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἀνάπαυσιν	anapausin	rest	G372 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔχουσιν	echousin	they have	G2192 →
ἡμέρας	hēmeras	by day	G2250 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
νυκτὸς	nuktos	night	G3571 →
λέγοντες·	legontes	saying:	G3004 →
ἅγιος	hagios	Holy	G40 →
ἅγιος	hagios	Holy	G40 →
ἅγιος	hagios	Holy	G40 →
κύριος	kurios	Lord	G2962 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
θεὸς	theos	God	G2316 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
παντοκράτωρ,	pantokratōr	Almighty,	G3841 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
ἦν	ēn	was being	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
ὢν	ōn	is being	G1510 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὁ	ho	who	G3588 →
ἐρχόμενος.	erchomenos	is coming.	G2064 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Hebrews 13:8
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
leads to
- Isaiah 44:6
  Thus says the LORD, the King and Redeemer of Israel, the LORD of Hosts: “I am the first and I am the last, and there is no God but Me.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Malachi 3:6
  “Because I, the LORD, do not change, you descendants of Jacob have not been destroyed.
- James 1:17
  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, with whom there is no change or shifting shadow.
- Revelation 1:8
  “I am the Alpha and the Omega,” says the Lord God, who is and was and is to come—the Almighty.
- Hebrews 1:12
  You will roll them up like a robe; like a garment they will be changed; but You remain the same, and Your years will never end.”
Through
Exodus 15:11
Who among the gods is like You, O LORD? Who is like You—majestic in holiness, revered with praises, performing wonders?
leads to
- 1 Kings 8:23
  and said: “O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like You in heaven above or on earth below, keeping Your covenant of loving devotion with Your servants who walk before You with…
- Psalms 89:5–8
  The heavens praise Your wonders, O LORD— Your faithfulness as well— in the assembly of the holy ones.
- 1 Samuel 2:2
  There is no one holy like the LORD. Indeed, there is no one besides You! And there is no Rock like our God.