18For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
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What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you.
Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar.
Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written therein: for the time is at hand.
And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-19)We have here a solemn ratification of the contents of this book, and particularly of this last vision (though some think it may not only refer to the whole book, but to the whole New Testament, yea, to the whole Bible, completing and confirming the can on of scripture); and here, 1. This is confirmed by the name and nature of that God who gave out these discoveries: he is the Lord God, faithful an…
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