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Then one of the elders [[a]of the heavenly Sanhedrin] said to me, Stop weeping! See, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root (Source) of David, has won (has overcome and conquered)! He can open the scroll and break its seven seals!(A)

And there between the throne and the four living creatures (beings) and among the elders [[b]of the heavenly Sanhedrin] I saw a Lamb standing, as though it had been slain, with seven horns and with seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God [[c]the sevenfold Holy Spirit] Who have been sent [on duty far and wide] into all the earth.(B)

He then went and took the scroll from the right hand of Him Who sat on the throne.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 5:5 George R. Berry, Greek-English New Testament Lexicon.
  2. Revelation 5:6 George R. Berry, Greek-English New Testament Lexicon.
  3. Revelation 5:6 Richard of St. Victor, cited by Richard Trench, Synonyms of the New Testament.

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