Wahyu 7:3-4

7:3 “Do not damage the earth or the sea or the trees until we have put a seal on the foreheads of the servants ¹  of our God.” 7:4 Now ²  I heard the number of those who were marked with the seal, ³  one hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed from all ⁴  the tribes of the people of Israel: ⁵ 

Wahyu 7:13

7:13 Then ⁶  one of the elders asked ⁷  me, “These dressed in long white robes – who are they and where have they come from?”

Wahyu 9:10

9:10 They have ⁸  tails and stingers like scorpions, and their ability ⁹  to injure people for five months is in their tails.

Wahyu 9:14

9:14 saying to the sixth angel, the one holding ¹⁰  the trumpet, “Set free ¹¹  the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!”

Wahyu 11:12

11:12 Then ¹²  they ¹³  heard a loud voice from heaven saying to them: “Come up here!” So the two prophets ¹⁴  went up to heaven in a cloud while ¹⁵  their enemies stared at them.

Wahyu 13:11

13:11 Then ¹⁶  I saw another beast ¹⁷  coming up from the earth. He ¹⁸  had two horns like a lamb, ¹⁹  but ²⁰  was speaking like a dragon.

Wahyu 14:19

14:19 So ²¹  the angel swung his sickle over the earth and gathered the grapes from the vineyard ²²  of the earth and tossed them into the great ²³  winepress of the wrath of God.

Wahyu 16:13

16:13 Then ²⁴  I saw three unclean spirits ²⁵  that looked like frogs coming out of the mouth of the dragon, out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet.

Wahyu 18:15

18:15 The merchants who sold ²⁶  these things, who got rich from her, will stand a long way off because they are afraid of her torment. They will weep ²⁷  and mourn,

Wahyu 18:20

18:20 (Rejoice over her, O heaven,

and you saints and apostles and prophets,

for God has pronounced judgment ²⁸  against her on your behalf!) ²⁹ 

Wahyu 21:24

21:24 The nations ³⁰  will walk by its light and the kings of the earth will bring their grandeur ³¹  into it.

[7:3]  ¹ tn See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1.

[7:4]  ² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “now” to indicate the introduction of new but related material.

[7:4]  ³ tn Grk “who were sealed.”

[7:4]  ⁴ tn Normally, “every,” but since 144,000 is the total number, “all” is clearer here.

[7:4]  ⁵ tn Grk “the sons of Israel,” normally an idiom for the Israelites as an ethnic entity (L&N 11.58). However, many scholars understand the expression in this context to refer to Christians rather than ethnic Israelites.

[7:13]  ⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[7:13]  ⁷ tn Grk “spoke” or “declared to,” but in the context “asked” reads more naturally in English.

[9:10]  ⁸ tn In the Greek text there is a shift to the present tense here; the previous verbs translated “had” are imperfects.

[9:10]  ⁹ tn See BDAG 352 s.v. ἐξουσία 2, “potential or resource to command, control, or govern, capability, might, power.”

[9:14]  ¹⁰ tn Grk “having.”

[9:14]  ¹¹ tn On λῦσον (luson) BDAG 606-7 s.v. λύω 2 states, “set free, loose, untie – a. lit. a pers., animal, or thing that is bound or tied…Angels that are bound Rv 9:14f.”

[11:12]  ¹² tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[11:12]  ¹³ tn Though the nearest antecedent to the subject of ἤκουσαν (hkousan) is the people (“those who were watching them”), it could also be (based on what immediately follows) that the two prophets are the ones who heard the voice.

[11:12]  ¹⁴ tn Grk “they”; the referent (the two prophets) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:12]  ¹⁵ tn The conjunction καί (kai) seems to be introducing a temporal clause contemporaneous in time with the preceding clause.

[13:11]  ¹⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.

[13:11]  ¹⁷ sn This second beast is identified in Rev 16:13 as “the false prophet.”

[13:11]  ¹⁸ tn Grk “and it had,” a continuation of the preceding sentence. On the use of the pronoun “he” to refer to the second beast, see the note on the word “It” in 13:1.

[13:11]  ¹⁹ tn Or perhaps, “like a ram.” Here L&N 4.25 states, “In the one context in the NT, namely, Re 13:11, in which ἀρνίον refers literally to a sheep, it is used in a phrase referring to the horns of an ἀρνίον. In such a context the reference is undoubtedly to a ‘ram,’ that is to say, the adult male of sheep.” In spite of this most translations render the word “lamb” here to maintain the connection between this false lamb and the true Lamb of the Book of Revelation, Jesus Christ.

[13:11]  ²⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[14:19]  ²¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the angel’s directions.

[14:19]  ²² tn Or “vine.” BDAG 54 s.v. ἄμπελος a states, “τρυγᾶν τοὺς βότρυας τῆς ἀ. τῆς γῆς to harvest the grapes fr. the vine of the earth (i.e. fr. the earth, symbol. repr. as a grapevine) Rv 14:18f; but ἀ may be taking on the meaning of ἀμπελών, as oft. in pap., possibly PHib. 70b, 2 [III bc].” The latter alternative has been followed in the translation (ἀμπελών = “vineyard”).

[14:19]  ²³ tn Although the gender of μέγαν (megan, masc.) does not match the gender of ληνόν (lhnon, fem.) it has been taken to modify that word (as do most English translations).

[16:13]  ²⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[16:13]  ²⁵ sn According to the next verse, these three unclean spirits are spirits of demons.

[18:15]  ²⁶ tn Grk “the merchants [sellers] of these things.”

[18:15]  ²⁷ tn Grk “her torment, weeping.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started in the translation by supplying the words “They will” here.

[18:20]  ²⁸ tn On the phrase “pronounced judgment” BDAG 567 s.v. κρίμα 4.b states, “The OT is the source of the expr. κρίνειν τὸ κρ. (cp. Zech 7:9; 8:16; Ezk 44:24) ἔκρινεν ὁ θεὸς τὸ κρίμα ὑμῶν ἐξ αὐτῆς God has pronounced judgment for you against her or God has pronounced on her the judgment she wished to impose on you (HHoltzmann, Hdb. 1893 ad loc.) Rv 18:20.”

[18:20]  ²⁹ tn Grk “God has judged a judgment of you of her.” Verse 20 is set in parentheses because in it the saints, etc. are addressed directly in the second person.

[18:20]  sn This verse forms a parenthetical aside in the narrative.

[21:24]  ³⁰ tn Or “the Gentiles” (the same Greek word may be translated “Gentiles” or “nations”).

[21:24]  ³¹ tn Or “splendor”; Grk “glory.”