Revelation 20:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

they. i.e. the Father and Christ (Revelation 3:21), and the heavenly beings associated with them as assessors (Revelation 1:4. and compare Matthew 25:31; 1 Timothy 5:21).

upon. App-104.

judgment. App-177.

was given. i.e. not judging or ruling authority, but sentence, or pronouncement, or award in their favour.

unto. for. No preposition. Dative case.

them. i.e. those who had been beheaded.

and. even.

I saw. Omit.

souls. App-110. Figure of speech Synecdoche (of Part). App-6.

were. had been.

witness. testimony. See Revelation 19:10 and p. 1511.

Jesus. App-98.

word. App-121.

which. whosoever. Greek. hoitines, as Matthew 5:39; Matthew 5:41.

had, &c.. did not (App-105) worship (App-137)

neither. Greek. oude.

neither... received. and received (See Revelation 13:16) not (App-105).

his. the.

or in. and upon(as above).

hands. hand.

lived. i.e. lived again. App-170.

Christ. App-98. The resurrection of these not mentioned but necessarily implied.

Revelation 20:4

4 And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.