translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: REV

label: NET translator note

text: Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.


text: Grk “he”; the referent (the angel mentioned in 21:9, 15 ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Grk “proceeding.” Water is more naturally thought to pour out or flow out in English idiom.


text: Grk “its”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: The Greek word πλατεῖα ( plateia ) refers to a major (broad) street (L&N 1.103).


text: Grk “From here and from there.”


text: Or “twelve crops” (one for each month of the year).


text: The words “of the year” are implied.


text: Or “be anything accursed” (L&N 33.474).


text: Grk “in it”; the referent (the city, the new Jerusalem) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Grk “city, and his.” Although this is a continuation of the previous sentence in Greek, a new sentence was started here in the translation because of the introduction of the Lamb’s followers.


text: See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1 .


text: Or “will serve.”


text: Grk “he”; the referent (the angel mentioned in 21:9, 15; 22:1 ) has been specified in the translation for clarity.


text: Grk “faithful.”


text: Or “I am John, the one who heard and saw these things.”


text: The pronoun “them” is not in the Greek text, but is implied. Direct objects were frequently omitted in Greek when clear from the context.


text: Grk “I fell down and worshiped at the feet.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b. α . ב . has “ fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”


text: Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present here.


text: On the elliptical expression ὅρα μή ( {ora mh ) BDAG 720 s.v. ὁράω B.2 states: “Elliptically… ὅρα μή (sc. ποιήσῃς ) watch out! don’t do that! Rv 19:10; 22:9 .”


text: Grk “fellow slave.” Though σύνδουλος ( sundoulos ) is here translated “fellow servant,” the word does not bear the connotation of a free individual serving another. See the note on the word “servants” in 1:1 .


text: Grk “keep” (an idiom for obedience).


text: Here καί ( kai ) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.


text: Grk “must do evil still.”


text: For this translation see L&N 88.258; the term refers to living in moral filth.


text: Grk “filthy, and the.” This is a continuation of the previous sentence in Greek, but because of the length and complexity of the construction a new sentence was started in the translation.


text: The Greek term may be translated either “pay” or “pay back” and has something of a double meaning here. However, because of the mention of “wages” (“reward,” another wordplay with two meanings) in the previous clause, the translation “pay” for ἀποδοῦναι ( apodounai ) was used here.


text: Grk “so that there will be to them authority over the tree of life.”


text: On the term φάρμακοι ( farmakoi ) see L&N 53.101.


text: Or “lying,” “deceit.”


text: On this expression BDAG 892 s.v. πρωϊνός states, “ early, belonging to the morning ὁ ἀστὴρ ὁ πρ . the morning star, Venus Rv 2:28; 22:16 .”


text: Grk “written.”


label: NET textual note

text: Most mss ( א Ï ) read “amen” ( ἀμήν , amhn ) after “all” ( πάντων , pantwn ). It is, however, not found in other important mss (A 1006 1841 pc ). It is easier to account for its addition than its omission from the text if original. Such a conclusion is routinely added by scribes to NT books because a few of these books originally had such an ending (cf. Rom 16:27 ; Gal 6:18 ; Jude 25 ). A majority of Greek witnesses have the concluding ἀμήν in every NT book except Acts, James, and 3 John (and even in these books, ἀμήν is found in some witnesses). It is thus a predictable variant.