Wahyu 10:1

The Angel with the Little Scroll

10:1 Then ¹  I saw another powerful angel descending from heaven, wrapped ²  in a cloud, with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun and his legs were like pillars of fire. ³ 

Wahyu 21:12

21:12 It has ⁴  a massive, high wall ⁵  with twelve gates, ⁶  with twelve angels at the gates, and the names of the twelve tribes of the nation of Israel ⁷  are written on the gates. ⁸ 

[10:1]  ¹ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.

[10:1]  ² tn Or “clothed.”

[10:1]  ³ tn Or “like fiery pillars,” translating πυρός (puros) as an attributive genitive.

[21:12]  ⁴ tn Grk “jasper, having.” Here a new sentence was started in the translation.

[21:12]  ⁵ tn Grk “a (city) wall great and high.”

[21:12]  ⁶ tn On this term BDAG 897 s.v. πυλών 1 states, “gate, esp. of the large, impressive gateways at the entrance of temples and palaces…of the entrances of the heavenly Jerusalem…οἱ πυλῶνες αὐτῆς οὐ μὴ κλεισθῶσιν its entrances shall never be shut Rv 21:25; cp. vss. 12ab, 13abcd, 15, 21ab; 22:14.”

[21:12]  ⁷ tn Grk “of the sons of Israel.” The translation “nation of Israel” is given in L&N 11.58.

[21:12]  ⁸ tn Grk “on them”; the referent (the gates) has been specified in the translation for clarity.