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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 5:9 - 5:9
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sung - Greek, “sing”: it is their blessed occupation continually. The theme of redemption is ever new, ever suggesting fresh thoughts of praise, embodied in the “new song.”
us to God - So manuscript B, Coptic, Vulgate, and Cyprian. But A omits “us”: and Aleph reads instead, “to our God.”
out of - the present election-church gathered out of the world, as distinguished from the peoples gathered to Christ as the subjects, not of an election, but of a general and world-wide conversion of all nations.
kindred ... tongue ... people ... nation - The number four marks world-wide extension: the four quarters of the world. For “kindred,” translate as Greek, “tribe.” This term and “people” are usually restricted to Israel: “tongue and nation” to the Gentiles (Rev 7:9; Rev 11:9; Rev 13:7, the oldest reading; Rev 14:6). Thus there is here marked the election-Church gathered from Jews and Gentiles. In Rev 10:11, for “tribes,” we find among the four terms “kings”; in Rev 17:15, “multitudes.”