And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.
Ver. 6. And he said unto me] This is the conclusion of the whole prophecy; and it is very august and majestical.
These sayings are faithful and true] Thus (among other evidences of its divinity) the Scripture testifies of itself; and we know that its testimony is true. Vapiscus saith of the ancient historians that there is none of them that hath not told many lies. Tertullian saith of Tacitus, that he was mendaciorum loquacissimus, a very loud and lewd liar. Baronius doth not compose annals, but coin them, saith one. But none of all this can be said of God's word of truth, void of all insincerity or falsehood.
The Lord God of the holy prophets] Some copies have it, The Lord God of the spirits of the prophets. He is the God of the spirits of all flesh, but of the spirits of prophets in a special manner; for those holy men spake no otherwise than as they were acted or imbreathed by the Holy Ghost,2 Peter 1:21. See Trapp on " 2Pe 1:21 "
Sent his angel] As Revelation 1:1. The authority therefore of this book is unquestionable, whatever some have surmised from Revelation 20:4, that it was the work of Cerinthus or some other millenary.