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Revelation 22:18
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16 a“I, Jesus, have sent My angel to testify to you these things in the churches. bI am the Root and the Offspring of David, cthe Bright and Morning Star.”  
17 And the Spirit and athe bride say, “Come!” And let him who hears say, “Come!” bAnd let him who thirsts come. Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.  

A Warning

18 1For I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: aIf anyone adds to these things,2 God will add to him the plagues that are written in this book;  
19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, aGod shall take away his part from the2 Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.  

I Am Coming Quickly

20 He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming quickly.” Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus!
21 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be1 with you all. Amen. 
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Revelation 22:18

I testify (Egw marturw). Commentators disagree keenly about the words in verses Revelation 22:18-19. Charles rejects them as an interpolation and out of harmony with the rest of the book. Beckwith takes them to be John's own warning, drawn from Deuteronomy 4:2 "to every man that heareth" (panti tw akouonti, dative of the articular present active participle of akouw, which compare Revelation 1:3). Swete properly holds these verses to be from Jesus himself, still bearing solemn witness to this book, with warning against wilful perversion of its teachings.

If any man shall add (ean tiv epiqh). Condition of the third class with ean and the second aorist active subjunctive of epitiqhmi, with epi added with auta, as also in the conclusion epiqhsei ep auton (future active). This warning is directed against perversions of this book, not about the New Testament or the Bible as a whole, though it may be true there also. Surely no warning was more needed when we consider the treatment accorded the Apocalypse, so that Dr. Robert South said that the Apocalypse either found one crazy or left him so.




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 22:18:

Revelation 1:2
Revelation 9:18
Revelation 22:7
Revelation 22:10
Revelation 22:18
Revelation 22:20

 

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