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Revelation 4 — Sermon Preparation
A door opens in heaven, revealing a throne surrounded by twenty-four elders and four living creatures who worship the Creator without ceasing. Below is a research summary for Revelation 4, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Greek words / lemmas
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Revelation 4 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| θρόνος | thrónos | G2362 | 13 | seat, throne |
| ζῷον | zōon | G2226 | 7 | beast |
| ὅμοιος | hómoios | G3664 | 6 | like, manner |
| κάθημαι | káthēmai | G2521 | 5 | dwell, sit |
| εἴκοσι | eíkosi | G1501 | 3 | twenty |
| αἰών | aiṓn | G165 | 4 | age, course, eternal, ever |
| ὅρασις | hórasis | G3706 | 2 | sight, vision |
How preachers through history handled this text
7 public-domain excerpts on Revelation 4, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“In this chapter the prophetical scene opens; and, as the epistolary part opened with a vision of Christ (ch. i.), so this part is introduced with a glorious appearance of the great God, whose throne is in heaven, compassed about with the heavenly host. This discovery was made to John, and in this chapter he, I. Records the heavenly sight he saw, ver. 1-7. And then, II. The heavenly songs he heard, ver. 8, to the end. The Vision of Heaven. (a. d. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 6 (Acts to Revelation), on Revelation 4:1–25 (Public Domain)
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