And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season, until their fellowservants also and their brethren, that should be killed as they were, should be fulfilled.
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Gill's Exposition
And white robes were given to everyone of them,.... The Alexandrian copy, and some others, read in the singular number, "a white robe", and so does the Syriac version; as a token of their innocence,…
And when he had opened the fifth seal - notes at Rev 5:1; Rev 6:1. I saw under the altar - The four living creatures are no longer heard as in the opening of the first four seals. No reason is given…
Adam Clarke
White robes - The emblems of purity, innocence, and triumph.
They should rest yet for a little season - This is a declaration that, when the cup of the iniquity of the Jews should be full, they should…
In the remaining part of this chapter we have the opening of the fifth and the sixth seals.
I. The fifth seal. Here is no mention made of any one who called the apostle to make his observation,…
Cambridge Bible
And white robes were given We should read, and there was given them to each one a white robe, bringing out still more fully than the old text, that the white robe is an individual, not a common…
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