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Nerses of Lambron

Medieval · AD 800–1500 · 10 passages across 1 books

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10 passages
Revelation 1:1

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

By Christ, he says, and not simply by God. But if through Jesus Christ God had this knowledge revealed, it is clear that it was through the Spirit, that is, because through Christ the grace of the activity of the Spirit descends to us.

Revelation 1:4

John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

before his throne. Now the seven spirits indicate the activity of the life-giving Spirit which directed Christ, God who was made man for us.

Revelation 1:5

And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

first begotten of the dead. Because he is not like those who died previously and rose and died again; but he is eternally immortal in the body which died.

Revelation 1:6 · 3 passages

And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

made us a kingdom: He made us kings through hope according to the undying promise, because if we endure we shall reign with Him.

and priests. in that we continually offer to Him the rational sacrifice of thanksgiving and blessing, heeding the advice, ‘Offer to God a sacrifice of blessing’ instead of irrational sacrifices:

So at the end of this section glory is befitting to Him who brought us to this honor and created so much grace. For we have nothing else to give in exchange, except only glory.

Revelation 5:1

And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

in the right hand. Now in his right hand, that is, within his power and knowledge, all mystery of the Deity was enclosed in the books of the prophets. For the Lord does nothing which he does not reveal to his servants the prophets.

Revelation 5:4

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

All wept who were lost in ignorance, men and those from the orders of the most pure and angelic ranks.

Revelation 20:2

And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

bound. Satan was then bound when he was mocked on the Cross, and mankind received authority from Christ to walk on that same serpent as on one bound, those whom he was unable to harm.

Revelation 20:8

And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

Like wild beasts from their lairs, so these also will be released over the earth from their places through the Devil their general, so that they may destroy the camps of the saints-that is, the Church- which have been established in the four extremities of the world; unaware that not one angel but many are those that surround the fearers of God, as the Psalm says, “Camps of angels of the Lord surround his fearers and guard them.” Ps 33:8 Straightaway they will also lay hands on the holy city Jerusalem; whence the divine law was spread throughout the whole world by the apostles, and where too we have learned from the Apostle that Antichrist sits in the temple. 2Thess 2:4

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