Revelation 5:4 - Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

Revelation 5:4

2 Then I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a loud voice, ^a“Who is worthy to open the scroll and to loose its seals?”

3 And no one in heaven or on the earth or under the earth was able to open the scroll, or to look at it.

4 So I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open¹ and read the scroll, or to look at it.

5 But one of the elders said to me, “Do not weep. Behold, ^athe Lion of the tribe of ^bJudah, ^cthe Root of David, has ^dprevailed to open the scroll ^eand to loose its seven seals.”

6 And I looked,¹ and behold, in the midst of the throne and of the four living creatures, and in the midst of the elders, stood ^aa Lamb as though it had been slain, having seven horns and ^bseven eyes, which are ^cthe seven Spirits of God sent out into all the earth.

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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Revelation 5:4

and to read—inserted in English Version Greek text without good authority. One oldest manuscript, ORIGEN, CYPRIAN, and HILARY omit the clause. "To read" would be awkward standing between "to open the book" and "to look thereon." John having been promised a revelation of "things which must be hereafter," weeps now at his earnest desire being apparently frustrated. He is a pattern to us to imitate, as an eager and teachable learner of the Apocalypse.

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