Text -- Revelation 15:1-2 (NET)

The Final Plagues

15:1 Then I saw another great and astounding sign in heaven: seven angels who have seven final plagues (they are final because in them God’s anger is completed). 15:2 Then I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who had conquered the beast and his image and the number of his name. They were standing by the sea of glass, holding harps given to them by God.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Rev 15:1

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

² tn Grk “seven plagues – the last ones.”

NET Notes: Rev 15:2

¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

² sn See Rev 4:6 where the sea of glass was mentioned previously.

³ tn Or “had been victorious over”; traditionally, “had overcome.”

⁴ tn Grk “of his name, standing.” A new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the words “They were.”

⁵ tn Or “on.” The preposition ἐπί (epi) with the accusative case could mean “on, at, by, near”; given the nature of this scene appearing in a vision, it is difficult to know precisely which the author of Revelation intended. See BDAG 363 s.v. ἐπί 1.c.γ, “At, by, near someone or someth.”

⁶ tn Grk “harps of God.” The phrase τοῦ θεοῦ (tou qeou) has been translated as a genitive of agency.