aorist infinitive yeréo9ae is not begin to come to pass, but de- notes a complete fulfilment : must shortly come to pass in thea entirety.
He sent (amocreldas). See on Matt. x. 2, 16.
Signified (éojpaver). From ofa a sign. Hence, literally, give a sign or token. The verb occurs outside of John’s writings only in Acts xi. 28; xxv.27. See John xii. 33; xviii. 32; xXG 19. This is its only occurrence in the Apocalypse. The word is appropriate to the symbolic character of the revelation, and so in John xii. 33, where Christ predicts the mode of His death in a figure. Compare szgn, Apoc. xii. 1.
Angel (ayyéAov). Strictly, a messenger. See Matt. xi. 10; Luke vii. 24; ix. 52. Compare the mediating angel in the vis- ions of Daniel and Zechariah (Dan. viii. 15, 16; ix. 21; x.10; Zech. i. 19). See on John i. 51.
Servant. Designating the prophetic office. See Isa. xlix. 5; Amos iii. 7; compare Apoc. xix. 10; xxii. 9.
John. John does not name himself in the Gospel or in the Epistles. Here “we are dealing with prophecy, and prophecy requires the guarantee of the individual who is inspired to utter it” (Milligan). Compare Dan. vili. 1; ix. 2.
2. Bare record (é€uapripycev). See on John i. 7. Rev., bear witness. The reference is to the present book and not to the Gospel. The aorist tense is the epistolary aorist. See on 1 John ii, 13, and compare the introduction to Thucydides’ “ His- tory :” “Thucydides, an Athenian, wrote (Evvéyparre) the his- tory of the war,” etc.; placing himself at the reader’s stand- point, who will regard the writing as occurring in the past.
Word of God. Not the personal Word, but the prophetic contents of this book. See xxii. 6.
Testimony (uaprupiav). For the phrase to witness a witness see John v. 82. For the peculiar emphasis on the idea of wit-