Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Burnished brass (xalkolibanw). Associative-instrumental case after omoioi. This word has so far been found nowhere else save here and Revelation 2:18. Suidas defines it as an hlecktron (amber) or a compound of copper and gold and silver (aurichalcum in the Latin Vulgate). It is in reality an unknown metal.
As if it had been refined (wv pepuromenhv). Perfect passive participle of purow, old verb, to set on fire, to glow, as in Ephesians 6:16; Revelation 3:18. The feminine gender shows that h xalkolibanov is referred to with thv xalkolibanou understood, for it does not agree in case with the associative-instrumental xalkolibanw just before. Some would call it a slip for pepuromenw as Aleph, and some cursives have it (taking xalkolibanw to be neuter, not feminine). But P Q read pepurwmenoi (masculine plural), a correction, making it agree in number and gender with podev (feet).
In a furnace (en kaminw). Old word, in N.T. also Revelation 9:2; Matthew 13:42, Matthew 13:50.
As the voice of many waters (wv fwnh udatwn pollwn). So the voice of God in the Hebrew (not the LXX) of Ezekiel 43:2. Repeated in Revelation 14:2; Revelation 19:6.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 1:15:
Revelation 1:13
Revelation 1:19
Revelation 2:1
Revelation 2:18
Revelation 3:18
Revelation 9:2
Revelation 9:7
Revelation 10:1
Revelation 14:2
Revelation 14:14
Revelation 19:6
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