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And I wept much, because no one was found worthy to open the book, or to look in it.
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Grief for God's Plan
John's intense weeping was not from a lack of faith or mere curiosity. Commentators explain it was a profound grief born from love for God and humanity. He despaired because if no one could open the scroll, God's plan for redemption, justice, and the end of suffering seemed stalled.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And I wept much, because no man was found worthy, etc. In Greek, as in Revelation 5:3, this is no one. It would seem as if there …
I wept much (εγω εκλαιον πολυ). Imperfect active of κλαιω, picturesque, descriptive, I kept on weeping much; natural tense in thes…
19th Century
Anglican
And I wept much, because no man (better, no one) was found worthy to open ... the book (omit, “and to read”).—Th…
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John next gives the number of those sealed—144,000—and their identification: “From all the tribes of Israel.” There are two principal views regardi…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I wept much Not so much on his own account, because he feared his curiosity would not be gratified, and that strong d…
The apostle saw in the hand of Him who sat on the throne a scroll, in the form usual in those times, sealed with seven seals. This represented the …
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