[B-Greek] EN MESWi in Revelation
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Mon Apr 7 16:15:12 EDT 2003
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> "and I saw between the throne and the four living creatures, on the one
> hand, and the elders, on the other, a lamb standing..."
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> But this seems intolerably clumsy to me. Can anyone do better?
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When trying to combine 4:4, 4:6 and 5:6, it seems to me that in 4:4 the 12
elders are introduced each sitting on a throne in a fairly wide semicircle
around the throne of God in the center. Their thrones probably face the
center throne as they frequently come down from their thrones to prostrate
themselves in worship before God. Our Danish translation says: "Around the
throne of God were 24 other thrones..."
Then in 4:6, the four living creatures are introduced. They are "in the
midst of the throne and around the throne". I interpret this to be around
the throne in a semi-circle, but between the throne and the circle of
elders. That is, I take "in the midst of" here as meaning "close to". Our
Danish version reads: "Close around the throne were four living
creatures..."
In 5:6 the lamb is introduced. It is "in the middle of the throne and the
four living creatures" and also "in the middle of the 24 elders". This I
interpret to mean that the lamb is very close to the throne, maybe
immediately in front of it, and closer than the four living creatures. So
our version says: "Then I saw a figure like a lamb that stood by the throne
in the middle, between the four living creatures and the 24 elders."
Iver Larsen
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