Revelation 1:18-20
1599 Geneva Bible
18 And am alive, but I was dead: and behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen: and I have the keys of hell and of death.
19 [a]Write these things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall come hereafter.
20 [b]The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks, is this, The seven stars are the [c]Angels of the seven Churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest, are the seven Churches.
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- Revelation 1:19 The sum of this prophecy, that the Apostle must write whatsoever he should see, adding nothing, nor taking away anything, as verse 2. Hereof there are two parts: one is a narration of those things which are, that is, which then were at that time contained in the second and third Chapters, the other part is of those things which were to come, contained in the rest of this book.
- Revelation 1:20 That is, the things which [were] mystical, signified by the particulars of the vision beforegoing.
- Revelation 1:20 By the Angels he meaneth the Ministers of the Church.
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