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Rev_4:9-11. The ascription of praise to God by the representatives of the creation, viz., the four beasts, is joined by that of the twenty-four elders, the representatives of redeemed humanity;[1824] yet here the praise of the elders (Rev_4:11) refers not to redemption itself,—which first occurs in Rev_5:9 sq.,—but to the power and glory of God revealed in creation, so that the words of the elders stand in beautiful harmony with the praise of the four beings, as well as with the significance of the entire vision; of course not without the relation expressly indicated in Rev_4:8, and lying at the basis, that Almighty God, who has made the beginning of all things, will also bring them to a completion.
[1824] Cf. De Wette, Hengstenb., Ebrard.