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Bare record (ἐμαρτύρησεν)
See on Joh 1:7. Rev., bear witness. The reference is to the present book and not to the Gospel. The aorist tense is the epistolary aorist. See on 1Jo 2:13, and compare the introduction to Thucydides' “History:” “Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote (ξυνέγραψε) the history of the war,” etc.; placing himself at the reader's stand point, who will regard the writing as occurring in the past.
Word of God
Not the personal Word, but the prophetic contents of this book. See Rev 22:6.
Testimony (μαρτυρίαν)
For the phrase to witness a witness see Joh 4:32. For the peculiar emphasis on the idea of witness in John, see on Joh 1:7. The words and the ides are characteristic of Revelation as of the Gospel and Epistles.
And (τε)
Omit. The clause all things that he saw is in apposition with the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ, marking these as seen by him. Rev. adds even.
All things that he saw (ὅσα εἶδεν)
Lit., as many things as he saw. In the Gospel John uses the word εἶδεν saw, only twice of his own eye-witness (Joh 1:40; Joh 20:8). In Revelation it is constantly used of the seeing of visions. Compare Rev 1:19. For the verb as denoting the immediate intuition of the seer, see on Joh 2:24.