Revelation 5:13

Revelation 5:13

11 Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands,

12 saying with a loud voice:
“Worthy is the Lamb who was slain
To receive power and riches and wisdom,
And strength and honor and glory and blessing!”

13 And ^aevery creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them, I heard saying:
^b“Blessing and honor and glory and power
Be to Him ^cwho sits on the throne,
And to the Lamb, forever and¹ ever!”

14 Then the four living creatures said, “Amen!” And the¹ twenty-four elders fell down and worshiped² Him who lives forever and ever.

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Every created thing (pan ktisma). Every creature in a still wider antiphonal circle beyond the circle of angels (from ktizw, for which see I Timothy 4:4; James 1:18), from all the four great fields of life (in heaven, upon the earth, under the earth as in verse Revelation 5:3, with on the sea epi thv qalasshv added). No created thing is left out. This universal chorus of praise to Christ from all created life reminds one of the profound mystical passage in Romans 8:20-22 concerning the sympathetic agony of creation (ktisiv) in hope of freedom from the bondage of corruption. If the trail of the serpent is on all creation, it will be ultimately thrown off.

Saying (legontav). Masculine (construction according to sense, personifying the created things) if genuine, though some MSS. have legonta (grammatical gender agreeing with panta) present active participle of legw, to say.

And to the Lamb (kai tw arniw). Dative case. Praise and worship are rendered to the Lamb precisely as to God on the throne. Note separate articles here in the doxology as in Revelation 4:11 and the addition of to kratov (active power) in place of isxuv (reserve of strength) in Revelation 5:12.

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Revelation 3:14
Revelation 5:3
Revelation 7:12
Revelation 8:9
Revelation 19:10
Revelation 20:10
Revelation 20:11
Revelation 21:5

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