Discovery BoxRevelation 4:2
Context4:2 Immediately I was in the Spirit, 1 and 2 a throne was standing 3 in heaven with someone seated on it!
Revelation 6:14
Context6:14 The sky 4 was split apart 5 like a scroll being rolled up, 6 and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
Revelation 8:1
Context8:1 Now 7 when the Lamb 8 opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
Revelation 14:17
Context14:17 Then 9 another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Revelation 15:5
Context15:5 After 10 these things I looked, and the temple (the tent 11 of the testimony) 12 was opened in heaven,
Revelation 18:5
Context18:5 because her sins have piled 13 up all the way to heaven 14 and God has remembered 15 her crimes. 16
Revelation 19:14
Context19:14 The 17 armies that are in heaven, dressed in white, clean, fine linen, 18 were following him on white horses.
[4:2] 1 tn Or “in the spirit.” “Spirit” could refer either to the Holy Spirit or the human spirit, but in either case John was in “a state of spiritual exaltation best described as a trance” (R. H. Mounce, Revelation [NICNT], 75).
[4:2] 2 tn Grk “and behold.” The Greek word ἰδού (idou) at the beginning of this statement has not been translated because it has no exact English equivalent here, but adds interest and emphasis (BDAG 468 s.v. 1).
[4:2] 3 tn BDAG 537 s.v. κεῖμαι 2 gives the translation “stand” for the term in this verse.
[6:14] 4 tn Or “The heavens were.” The Greek word οὐρανός (ouranos) can mean either “heaven” or “sky.”
[6:14] 5 tn BDAG 125 s.v. ἀποχωρίζω states, “ὁ οὐρανὸς ἀπεχωρίσθη the sky was split Rv 6:14.” Although L&N 79.120 gives the meaning “the sky disappeared like a rolled-up scroll” here, a scroll that is rolled up does not “disappear,” and such a translation could be difficult for modern readers to understand.
[6:14] 6 tn On this term BDAG 317 s.v. ἑλίσσω states, “ὡς βιβλίον ἑλισσόμενον like a scroll that is rolled up…Rv 6:14.”
[8:1] 7 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the resumption of the topic of the seals.
[8:1] 8 tn Grk “he”; the referent (the Lamb) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
[14:17] 10 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.
[15:5] 13 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
[15:5] 14 tn On this term BDAG 928 s.v. σκηνή 1.b.α states, “ἡ σκηνὴ τοῦ μαρτυρίου the Tabernacle or Tent of Testimony (Ex 27:21; 29:4; Lev 1:1; Num 1:1 and oft.…) Ac 7:44; 1 Cl 43:2, 5,” and then continues in section 2 to state, “Rv 15:5 speaks of a ναὸς τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ. God’s σκ.= dwelling is in heaven 13:6, and will some time be among humans 21:3.”
[15:5] 15 tn Grk “the temple of the tent of the testimony” (ὁ ναός τῆς σκηνῆς τοῦ μαρτυρίου, Jo naos ths skhnhs tou marturiou). The genitive “of the tent” is probably an appositional genitive and should be rendered as “the temple, which is the tent.” The entire expression, then, would be “the temple which is the tent of testimony,” that is, “the heavenly equivalent of the tent or tabernacle that was with Israel in the wilderness” (G. K. Beale, Revelation [NIGTC], 801-2).
[18:5] 16 tn On ἐκολλήθησαν (ekollhqhsan) BDAG 556 s.v. κολλάω 2.a.β states, “fig. cling to = come in close contact with (cp. Ps 21:16; 43:26 ἐκολλήθη εἰς γῆν ἡ γαστὴρ ἡμῶν. The act.=‘bring into contact’ PGM 5, 457 κολλήσας τ. λίθον τῷ ὠτίῳ) ἐκολλήθησαν αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἄχρι τ. οὐρανοῦ the sins have touched the heaven = reached the sky (two exprs. are telescoped) Rv 18:5.”
[18:5] 17 tn Or “up to the sky” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).
[18:5] 18 tn That is, remembered her sins to execute judgment on them.
[19:14] 19 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
[19:14] 20 tn On the term translated “fine linen,” BDAG 185 s.v. βύσσινος states, “made of fine linen, subst. τὸ β. fine linen, linen garment…Rv 18:12, 16; 19:8, 14.”
