Revelation 21:9ExegesisTAB

Revelation 21 : 9 Revelation | Judgment | Marriage
9. Linguistic Exegesis
The narrative opens with kai {Καὶ | Kaí} ‘and’ as a discourse connector introducing the verb–subject phrase ēlthen heis {ἦλθεν εἷς | êl-then heîs} ‘one came’. This is followed by an extensive genitive construction ek tōn hepta angelōn tōn echontōn tas hepta phialas {ἐκ τῶν ἑπτὰ ἀγγέλων τῶν ἐχόντων τὰς ἑπτὰ φιάλας | ek tôn hep-tá ang-gé-lōn tôn e-khón-tōn tas hep-tá phi-á-las} ‘from the seven angels who have the seven bowls’, where the participle echontōn {ἐχόντων | e-khón-tōn} ‘having’ attaches the agents to their judgment vessels. A nested genitive chain tōn gemontōn tōn hepta plēgōn tōn eschatōn {τῶν γεμόντων τῶν ἑπτὰ πληγῶν τῶν ἐσχάτων | tôn ge-món-tōn tôn hep-tá plē-gôn tôn es-khá-tōn} ‘which are full of the seven last plagues’ adds cumulative description and heightens the sense of finality through repetition of articles. The main verb elalēsen {ἐλάλησεν | e-lá-lē-sen} ‘he spoke’, together with metʼ emou {μετʼ ἐμοῦ | met’ e-mou} ‘with me’, positions John as the direct recipient. The participle legōn {λέγων | lé-gōn} ‘saying’ signals direct speech introduced by the summons deuro {Δεῦρο | Déu-ro} ‘come!’ and the future deixō {δείξω | deí-xō} ‘I will show’, framing what follows as a revelatory disclosure. The appositional pair tēn nymphēn, tēn gynaika tou arniou {τὴν νύμφην, τὴν γυναῖκα τοῦ ἀρνίου | tēn ným-phēn, tēn gy-naî-ka tou ar-ní-ou} ‘the bride, the wife of the Lamb’ equates the symbolic bride with the Lamb’s wife, underscoring covenant intimacy and the culmination of salvation enacted by the Lamb’s judgments.

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