John Gill Commentary Revelation 4:11

"Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created." — Revelation 4:11 (ASV)

You are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory honour, and
power
The Alexandrian copy, and some others, the Complutensian edition, the Vulgate Latin version, and all the Oriental ones, read, "you are worthy, O Lord, and our God, to receive"; that is, to receive the acknowledgment and ascription of glory, honour, and power; for otherwise God cannot be said to receive these from his creatures, than by their confessing and declaring that they belong unto him: and that for the reasons following,

for you have created all things ;
the whole universe, the heavens, the earth, and sea, and all that in them are:

and for your pleasure they are and were created ;
God is the first cause, and the last end of all things; by his power they are made, and according to his will, and for his own glory, and therefore is worthy of such a doxology; see (Proverbs 16:4) (Romans 11:36) . What is here said is contrary to a notion imbibed by the Jews ^F26 , that the world was not created but for the sake of the Israelites: and elsewhere ^F1 they say,

``the world was not created but for David; and one says for Moses; and Rabbi Jochanan says for the Messiah;'' which last is truest.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F26: Zohar in Exod. fol. 6. 3. & Tzeror Hammor, fol. 109. 1. & 161. 3.
• F1: T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 98. 2.