Be praising our God, all his slaves,
Those fearing him, the small and great.
6 And I heard like [the] sound of [a] great crowd, and like [the] sound of many waters, and like [the] sound of strong thunders, saying:
Alleluia, for our Lord God Almighty has reigned.
7 Let us rejoice and be glad, and let us give him glory, for the marriage of the lamb has come, and his wife has prepared herself, 8 and to her was given in order that she be clothed with shining white fine-linen, for the fine-linen is the just [deeds] of the holy [ones]. 9 And he says to me: Write: Blessed [are] those called to the wedding supper of the lamb. These are the true words of God. 10 And I fell before his feet to worship him. And he says to me: See [that you] not [do this]; I am fellow-slave [of you] and your brothers having the testimony of Jesus. Worship God. For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy. 11 And I saw heaven opened, and behold, [a] white horse, and the [one] having sat upon it [is] called trustworthy and true, and with justice he judges and makes war. 12 Now his eyes are [a] flame of fire, and upon his head [are] many diadems, having names written which no one knows except himself, 13 and clothed with [a] garment dipped in blood, and his name is called The Word of God. 14 And the armies in heaven followed him with white horses, clothed with clean white fine-linen. 15 And from his mouth proceeds [a] sharp broad-sword, in order that with it he slaughter the nations, and he shepherds them with [a] rod of iron, and he tramples the winepress of the anger of the wrath of God almighty. 16 And he has upon [his] garment and upon his thigh [a] name written: King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 17 And I saw one angel standing in the sun, and he cried out with [a] great voice saying to all the birds flying in mid-heaven: Come, be gathered to the great supper of God, 18 in order that you eat [the] flesh of kings and [the] flesh of captains and [the] flesh of strong [men] and [the] flesh of horses, and of those having sat upon them, and [the] flesh of everyone free and slave and small and great. 19 And I saw the wild-beast and the kings of the land and their armies gathered to make war against the [one] having sat upon the horse and against his armies. 20 And the wild-beast was seized, and with him the false-prophet having done the signs before him, by which he deceived those having received the mark of the wild-beast and those worshipping his image. The two were thrown zoe-living1 into the lake of fire of burning in sulfur. 21 And the rest were killed with the broad-sword of the [one] having sat upon the horse, which [sword] went out from his mouth, and all the birds were fattened from their flesh.
1from ZOE "ZOH-ay" (ζωη)—Life 'collectively', interdependent, interconnected. Although it means 'life' in the conventional sense (for example:
Matt.9:18,
Matt.27:63,
Luke.2:36,
Acts.25:24,
Rom.7:2,
2Cor.1:8,
1Thes.4:17,
1Tim.5:10,
Rev.19:20), Jesus uses ZOE exclusively of 'life eternal' (with the possible exceptions of
Luke.15:13,
Luke.16:25). The other N.T. writers use ZOE in both senses—temporal and eternal, generally clear from the context. The Father is the 'zoe-living God' (see
Matt.16:16). The Septuagint (LXX) in Gen.2:7 has "...[God] breathed into his nostrils the breath of zoe-life, and the man became a zoe-living psyche-life" (and see
1Cor.15:45); and Gen.3:20 (LXX) "And Adam called his wife's name ZOE, because she was the mother of all zoe-living." Contrast PSYCHE (ψυχη): an individual manifestation of life/consciousness. See
John.12:25 where both ZOE and PSYCHE occur. Greek also has the word BIOS (βιoς ) for 'life' in the sense of biological processes.
version 3.85.
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