1Or, gave unto him, to show unto his servants the things etc.
2Gk. bondservants, … his bondservant John;
3Or, them
4Or, messenger And so throughout Revelation.
1: 2 who bare witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw.
1: 3 Blessed is he that readeth and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.
1: 4 John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and who was and 5who is to come; and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne;
5Or, who cometh; (ο ερχομενος, the coming one)
1: 5 and from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loveth us, and 6loosed us from our sins 7by his blood;
6So p18CA 2050 MA syrh. ℵ* 1611 omit us (2053 2062) f 1006 94 MK vg read washed us
7Gk. in
1: 6 and he made us to be a kingdom, to be priests unto 8his God and Father; to him be the glory and the dominion 9for ever and ever. Amen.
8Or, God and his Father;
9Gk. for the ages of the ages. Amen. (or, Let it be so.) So C(ℵ) 1611 2053 2062 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., vg syr eth. p18A 2050 P omit of the ages 2344 792 omit of the ages. Amen
1: 7 Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall 10see him, even they that pierced him; and all the tribes of the earth shall mourn over him. Even so, Amen.
10Or, perceive him,
1: 8 I am the Alpha and the Omega,11 saith the Lord God, 12who is and who was and 13who is to come, the Almighty.
11So CA 1611 2053 2062. ℵ vg add the first and last,
12Or, he who
13Or, who cometh, (ο ερχομενος, the coming one)
1: 9 I John, your brother and partaker with you in the tribulation and kingdom and 14patience which are in Jesus, came to be in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God and the witness of Jesus.
14Or, stedfastness and in ch. 2:2-3.
1: 10 I came to be in the spirit on the Lord’s day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet
1: 11 saying,15 What thou seest, write in a book and send it to the seven churches: unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamum, and unto Thyatira, 16and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea.
15So CℵA f 1678 2050 MK vg syr. 1611 eth add to me 2053 2062 add to me, John MA adds I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, and
16ℵ* virtually alone omits and unto Sardis, (A later corrector has added & unto Sardis in the margin, which has sometimes mistakenly been thought to mean ℵ made it the seventh church.)
1: 12 And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And having turned I saw seven golden lampstands;
1: 13 and in the midst of the lampstands one like unto a son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about at the breasts with a golden girdle.
1: 14 And his head and his hair were white as white wool, white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
1: 15 and his feet like unto burnished 17copper, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.
17Or, brass, or, bronze,
1: 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword: and his countenance was as the sun shineth in his power.
1: 17 And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as one dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying, Fear not; I am the first and the last,
1: 18 and the Living one; and I 18was dead, and behold, I am alive 19for evermore, and I have the keys of death and of Hades.
18Gk. became
19Gk. unto the ages of the ages,
1: 19 Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass after these things;
1: 20 the mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest on my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands. The seven stars are the 20angels of the seven churches: and the seven lampstands are seven churches.
20Or, messengers And so elsewhere.
