Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
thanks—for the answer to our prayers (Revelation 6:10-11) in destroying them which destroy the earth (Revelation 11:18), thereby preparing the way for setting up the kingdom of Thyself and Thy saints.
and art to come—omitted in A, B, C, Vulgate, Syriac, CYPRIAN, and ANDREAS. The consummation having actually come, they do not address Him as they did when it was still future, "Thou that art to come." Compare Revelation 11:18, "is come." From the sounding of the seventh trumpet He is to His people JAH, the ever present Lord, WHO IS, more peculiarly than JEHOVAH "who is, was, and is to come."
taken to thee thy great power—"to Thee" is not in the Greek. Christ takes to Him the kingdom as His own of right.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Revelation 11:17:
Isaiah 56:12
1 Corinthians 15:24
Revelation 8:1
Revelation 10:7
Revelation 10:9
Revelation 16:5
Revelation 19:1
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