18 and the living one: and I became dead, and behold, I am living to the ages of ages, and have the keys of death and of hades.
knowing that Christ having been raised up from among [the] dead dies no more: death has dominion over him no more.
And when the living creatures shall give glory and honour and thanksgiving to him that sits upon the throne, who lives to the ages of ages,
For both if we should live, [it is] to the Lord we live; and if we should die, [it is] to the Lord we die: both if we should live then, and if we should die, we are the Lord's. For to this [end] Christ has died and lived [again], that he might rule over both dead and living.
who has been constituted not according to law of fleshly commandment, but according to power of indissoluble life.
And to the angel of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith the holy, the true; he that has the key of David, he who opens and no one shall shut, and shuts and no one shall open:
looking stedfastly on Jesus the leader and completer of faith: who, in view of the joy lying before him, endured [the] cross, having despised [the] shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.
who being [the] effulgence of his glory and [the] expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,
and death and hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.
I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, *I*, but Christ lives in me; but [in] that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the [faith] of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.
for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power; for indeed *we* are weak in him, but we shall live with him by God's power towards you,)
Yet a little and the world sees me no longer; but ye see me; because I live ye also shall live.
Our ùGod is the ùGod of salvation; and with Jehovah, the Lord, are the goings forth [even] from death.
And [as for] me, I know that my Redeemer liveth, and the Last, he shall stand upon the earth;
for ye have died, and your life is hid with the Christ in God.
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Commentary on Revelation 1 Matthew Henry Commentary
An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of
The Revelation of ST. John the Divine
Chapter 1
This chapter is a general preface to the whole book, and contains,
Rev 1:1-2
Here we have,
Rev 1:3-8
We have here an apostolic benediction on those who should give a due regard to this divine revelation; and this benediction is given more generally and more especially.
Rev 1:9-20
We have now come to that glorious vision which the apostle had of the Lord Jesus Christ, when he came to deliver this revelation to him, where observe,