Revelation 5:7 BSB — MannaFest

Revelation 5:7

And He came and took the scroll from the right hand of the One seated on the throne.

BSB

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ASV

And he came, and he taketh it out of the right hand of him that sat on the throne.

KJV

And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne.

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Commentary

4 voices

Irenaeus

Against Heresies Book IV (202)

Likewise does the Lord also say: "All things are delivered to Me by My Father;" manifestly by Him who made all things; for He did not deliver to Him the things of another, but His own. But in all things [it is implied that] nothing has been kept back [from Him], and for this reason the same person is the Judge of the living and the dead; "having the key of David: He shall Open, and no man shall shut: He shall shut, and no man shall open."

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

And he came,.... He drew nigh to the throne of God, he engaged his heart to approach unto him, and came up even to his seat, which a mere creature, without a Mediator, cannot do: and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat upon the throne; See Gill on Rev 5:1; it being given unto him, as in Rev 1:1; and a commission and authority to open it, and make it manifest to others, and to accomplish the several events, in the several periods of time, it points unto.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

And he came and took the book out of the right hand ... - As if it pertained to him by virtue of rank or office. There is a difficulty here, arising from the incongruity of what is said of a lamb, which it is not easy to solve. The difficulty is in conceiving how a lamb could take the book from the hand of Him who held it.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

This introductory vision thus presents before us, in summary, the consummation to which all the events in the seals, trumpets, and vials converge, namely, the setting up of Christ's kingdom visibly. Prophecy ever hurries to the grand crisis or end, and dwells on intermediate events only in their typical relation to, and representation of, the end.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἦλθεν	ēlthen	He came	G2064 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
εἴληφεν	eilēphen	He has taken	G2983 →
ἐκ	ek	out of	G1537 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
δεξιᾶς	dexias	right hand	G1188 →
τοῦ	tou	of the [One]	G3588 →
καθημένου	kathēmenou	sitting	G2521 →
ἐπὶ	epi	on	G1909 →
τοῦ	tou	the	G3588 →
θρόνου.	thronou	throne.	G2362 →

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

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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 5:1
Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One seated on the throne. It had writing on both sides and was sealed with seven seals.
leads to
- Ezekiel 2:9–10
  Then I looked and saw a hand reaching out to me, and in it was a scroll,
- Isaiah 29:11
  And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
- Daniel 12:4–9
  But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowledge will increase.”
- Revelation 6:1
  Then I watched as the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a thunderous voice, “Come!”
- Revelation 10:2
  He held in his hand a small scroll, which lay open. He placed his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land.

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Revelation

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Revelation