Revelation 4:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

and they were. are.

Holy, &c. The first of the seventeen (App-10) heavenly utterances in Rev. Here, Revelation 4:8; Revelation 4:11; Revelation 5:9; Revelation 5:10; Revelation 5:12; Revelation 5:13; Revelation 5:5. -14- (Amen); Revelation 7:10; Revelation 7:12; Revelation 11:15; Revelation 11:17; Revelation 12:10-12; Revelation 14:13; Revelation 15:3; Revelation 19:1-3; Revelation 19:4; Revelation 19:5; Revelation 19:6; Revelation 19:7.

Holy... holy. God's holiness proclaimed, prior to judgment. See Psalms 93; Psalms 97; Psalms 99, and Isaiah 6:3. Compare Numbers 6:24-26.

Almighty. See Revelation 1:8.

Revelation 4:8

8 And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they resta not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.