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His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns. He has names written and a name written which no one knows but he himself.
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The Piercing Gaze of Judgment
Commentators explain that the Rider's "eyes like a flame of fire" symbolize His perfect, all-seeing knowledge and righteous judgment, piercing through all deception. This imagery, seen before in Revelation, assures believers that nothing is hidden from the Lord, who judges with perfect truth.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
His eyes were as a flame of fire. See Barnes on Revelation 1:14.
And on his head were many crowns. Many diadems, indicativ…
A flame of fire (φλοξ πυρος). As in the opening vision of Christ in 1:14 (2:18).
Many diadems(διαδηματα πο…
19th Century
Anglican
His eyes were as a flame . . .—Or, rather, And His eyes are (as) a flame of fire, and upon His head many diadems—(He) having n…
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Baptist
And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse, and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and ma…
The reference to the blazing eyes connects this vision with that of 1:14 (cf. 2:18). On his head are not just seven crowns (12:3), or ten (13:1), b…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
His eyes were as a flame of fire Which denotes the perspicuity and penetration of them, the omniscience of Christ to…
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Christ, the glorious Head of the church, is described as on a white horse, the emblem of justice and holiness. He has many crowns, for he is King o…
