Revelation 1:20

1:20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands is this: ¹  The seven stars are the angels ²  of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

Revelation 5:8

5:8 and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground ³  before the Lamb. Each ⁴  of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints). ⁵ 

¹ tn The words “is this” are supplied to make a complete sentence in English.

² tn Or perhaps “the messengers.”

³ tn Grk “fell down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

⁴ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.

⁵ sn This interpretive comment by the author forms a parenthesis in the narrative.