Revelation 7:11

7:11 And all the angels stood ¹  there in a circle around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground ²  before the throne and worshiped God,

Revelation 7:1

The Sealing of the 144,000

7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so no wind could blow on the earth, on the sea, or on any tree.

Revelation 22:19

22:19 And if anyone takes away from the words of this book of prophecy, God will take away his share in the tree of life ³  and in the holy city that are described in this book.

Revelation 22:2

22:2 flowing down the middle of the city’s ⁴  main street. ⁵  On each side ⁶  of the river is the tree of life producing twelve kinds ⁷  of fruit, yielding its fruit every month of the year. ⁸  Its leaves are for the healing of the nations.

Revelation 6:16

6:16 They ⁹  said to the mountains and to the rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of the one who is seated on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, ¹⁰ 

Psalms 103:20

103:20 Praise the Lord, you angels of his,

you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees

and obey his orders! ¹¹ 

Psalms 148:2

148:2 Praise him, all his angels! ¹² 

Praise him, all his heavenly assembly! ¹³ 

¹ tn The verb is pluperfect, but the force is simple past. See ExSyn 586.

² tn Grk “they fell down on their faces.” 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.”

³ tc The Textus Receptus, on which the KJV rests, reads “the book” of life (ἀπὸ βίβλου, apo biblou) instead of “the tree” of life. When the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus translated the NT he had access to no Greek mss for the last six verses of Revelation. So he translated the Latin Vulgate back into Greek at this point. As a result he created seventeen textual variants which were not in any Greek mss. The most notorious of these is this reading. It is thus decidedly inauthentic, while “the tree” of life, found in the best and virtually all Greek mss, is clearly authentic. The confusion was most likely due to an intra-Latin switch: The form of the word for “tree” in Latin in this passage is ligno; the word for “book” is libro. The two-letter difference accounts for an accidental alteration in some Latin mss; that “book of life” as well as “tree of life” is a common expression in the Apocalypse probably accounts for why this was not noticed by Erasmus or the KJV translators. (This textual problem is not discussed in NA²⁷.)

⁴ tn Grk “its”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn The Greek word πλατεῖα (plateia) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).

⁶ tn Grk “From here and from there.”

⁷ tn Or “twelve crops” (one for each month of the year).

⁸ tn The words “of the year” are implied.

⁹ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

¹⁰ tn It is difficult to say where this quotation ends. The translation ends it after “withstand it” at the end of v. 17, but it is possible that it should end here, after “Lamb” at the end of v. 16. If it ends after “Lamb,” v. 17 is a parenthetical explanation by the author.

¹¹ tn Heb “[you] mighty ones of strength, doers of his word, by listening to the voice of his word.”

¹² tn Or “heavenly messengers.”

¹³ tn Heb “all his host.”