21:1 Then 3 I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had ceased to exist, 4 and the sea existed no more.
1 tn See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1.
2 tn Grk “and having.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the pronoun “he.”
3 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.
4 tn For the translation of ἀπέρχομαι (apercomai; here ἀπῆλθαν [aphlqan]) L&N 13.93 has “to go out of existence – ‘to cease to exist, to pass away, to cease.’”