Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Revelation 1:18 - 1:18

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Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges - Revelation 1:18 - 1:18


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18. ἐγενόμην is emphatic in intentional contrast to ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ πρῶτος, and still more to ζῶν εἰμί, setting His temporal and temporary death against His eternal life; see on Rev 1:4.

τοῦ θανάτου καὶ τοῦ ἅδου. Hades is the receptacle of the dead: usually personified in this book, as indeed is death, Rev 6:8, Rev 20:13-14. But here they are rather conceived as places, prisons wherein the dead are confined, and from which Christ can deliver them. We read of “the gates of death “in Psa 9:13, Job 38:17; and “the gates of hell” in Isa 38:10, Mat 16:18.