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- Chapter 5
- Verse 10
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.
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Gill's Exposition
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests,.... See Gill on Rev 1:6. The Alexandrian copy, and Complutensian edition, and the Syriac, Arabic, and the Ethiopic versions, read "them", instead of…
Barnes' Notes
And hast made us unto our God kings and priests - See the notes on Rev 1:6. And we shall reign on the earth - The redeemed, of whom we are the representatives. The idea clearly is, in accordance with…
Adam Clarke
Kings and priests - See Exo 19:6 (note); Pe1 2:5 (note), Pe1 2:9 (note), and the notes there.
Here, I. The apostle beholds this book taken into the hands of the Lord Jesus Christ, in order to its being unsealed and opened by him. Here Christ is described, 1. By his place and station: In the…
Cambridge Bible
unto our God kings and priests See on the last verse for the true reading: on Rev 1:6 for the origin of the phrase.
we shall reign Authorities are nearly evenly divided between the readings "they…
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