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Revelation 1:14-15

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1:14 His 1  head and hair were as white as wool, even as white as snow, 2  and his eyes were like a fiery 3  flame. 1:15 His feet were like polished bronze 4  refined 5  in a furnace, and his voice was like the roar 6  of many waters.
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[1:14]  1 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.

[1:14]  2 tn The clause, “even as white as snow” seems to heighten the preceding clause and is so understood in this ascensive sense (“even”) in the translation.

[1:14]  3 tn The genitive noun πυρός (puros) has been translated as an attributive genitive.

[1:15]  4 tn The precise meaning of the term translated “polished bronze” (χαλκολιβάνῳ, calkolibanw), which appears nowhere else in Greek literature outside of the book of Revelation (see 2:18), is uncertain. Without question it is some sort of metal. BDAG 1076 s.v. χαλκολίβανον suggests “fine brass/bronze.” L&N 2.57 takes the word to refer to particularly valuable or fine bronze, but notes that the emphasis here and in Rev 2:18 is more on the lustrous quality of the metal.

[1:15]  5 tn Or “that has been heated in a furnace until it glows.”

[1:15]  6 tn Grk “sound,” but the idea is closer to the roar of a waterfall or rapids.



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