Revelation 5:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.

Revelation 5:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Daniel 12:8-9
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? …
Revelation 4:1
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

Topics

Angel (a Spirit)Atonement Decision Plan of Salvation Salvation Sanctification Sin Zeal, Religious

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

Hitherto the apostle had seen only the great God, the governor of all things, now, I. He is favoured with a sight of the model and methods of his government, as they are all written down in a book which he holds in his hand; and this we are now to consider as shut up and sealed in the hand of God. Observe, 1. The designs and methods of divine Providence towards the church and the world are stated…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. and to read--inserted in English Version Greek text without good authority. One oldest manuscript, Origen, Cyprian, and Hilary omit the clause. “To read” would be awkward standing between “to open the book” and “to look thereon.” John having been promised a revelation of “things which must be hereafter,” weeps now at his earnest desire being apparently frustrated. He is a pattern to us to imita…