Revelation 21:9 BSB

Revelation 21:9

Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls full of the seven final plagues came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”

BSB

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ASV

And there came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls, who were laden with the seven last plagues; and he spake with me, saying, Come hither, I will show thee the bride, the wife of the Lamb.

KJV

And there came unto me one of the seven angels which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues, and talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife.

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Commentary

4 voices

Cyprian

Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews (258)

That Christ is the Bridegroom, having the Church as His bride, from which spiritual children were to be born. In Joel: "Blow with the trumpet in Sion; sanctify a fast, and call a healing; assemble the people, sanctify the Church, gather the elders, collect the little ones that suck the breast; let the Bridegroom go forth of His chamber, and the bride out of her closet."

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And there came unto me one of the seven angels,.... Either the first of them, as one of the four beasts is the first of them, Rev 6:1 or it may be the last, and very likely the same as in Rev 17:1 which had the seven vials full of the seven last plagues; that is, the wrath of God poured out by them on the antichristian party; see Rev 15:1. And talked with me, saying, come hither; see Rev 17:1. I will show thee the bride, the Lamb's wife.

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

And there came one of the seven angels that had the seven phials - Whereby room had been made for the kingdom of God. Saying, Come, I will show thee the bride - The same angel had before showed him Babylon, chap. xvii, 1, which is directly opposed to the new Jerusalem.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

And there came unto me one of the seven angels ... - See the notes on Rev 16:6-7. Why one of these angels was employed to make this communication is not stated. It may be that as they had been engaged in bringing destruction on the enemies of the church, and securing its final triumph, there was a propriety that that triumph should be announced by one of their number. And talked with me - That is, in regard to what he was about to show me.

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Original language & word study

33 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Καὶ	Kai	And	G2532 →
ἦλθεν	ēlthen	came	G2064 →
εἷς	heis	one	G1520 →
ἐκ	ek	of	G1537 →
τῶν	tōn	the	G3588 →
ἑπτὰ	hepta	seven	G2033 →
ἀγγέλων	angelōn	angels	G32 →
τῶν	tōn	who	G3588 →
ἐχόντων	echontōn	are having	G2192 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
ἑπτὰ	hepta	seven	G2033 →
φιάλας	phialas	bowls	G5357 →
τῶν	tōn	which	G3588 →
γεμόντων	gemontōn	are being full	G1073 →
τῶν	tōn	of the	G3588 →
ἑπτὰ	hepta	seven	G2033 →
πληγῶν	plēgōn	plagues	G4127 →
τῶν	tōn	<the>	G3588 →
ἐσχάτων	eschatōn	last	G2078 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἐλάλησεν	elalēsen	spoke	G2980 →
μετ᾽	met᾽	with	G3326 →
ἐμοῦ	emou	me	G1473 →
λέγων·	legōn	saying;	G3004 →
δεῦρο,	deuro	Come here,	G1204 →
δείξω	deixō	I will show	G1166 →
σοι	soi	you	G4771 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
νύμφην	numphēn	bride	G3565 →
τὴν	tēn	the	G3588 →
γυναῖκα	gunaika	wife	G1135 →
τοῦ	tou	of the	G3588 →
ἀρνίου.	arniou	Lamb.	G721 →

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
Revelation 19:7
Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
leads to
- Revelation 21:2
  I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
- Revelation 19:9
  Then the angel told me to write, “Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.” And he said to me, “These are the true words of God.”
- 2 Corinthians 11:2
  I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
- Matthew 22:2
  “The kingdom of heaven is like a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.
- Ephesians 5:32
  This mystery is profound, but I am speaking about Christ and the church.
Through
Revelation 21:2
I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
leads to
- Hebrews 11:10
  For he was looking forward to the city with foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
- Revelation 3:12
  The one who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of My God, and he will never again leave it. Upon him I will write the name of My God, and the…
- Revelation 21:10
  And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,

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