Wahyu 5:11
Konteks5:11 Then 1 I looked and heard the voice of many angels in a circle around the throne, as well as the living creatures and the elders. Their 2 number was ten thousand times ten thousand 3 – thousands times thousands –
Wahyu 7:9
Konteks7:9 After these things I looked, and here was 4 an enormous crowd that no one could count, made up of persons from every nation, tribe, 5 people, and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb dressed in long white robes, and with palm branches in their hands.
Wahyu 1:18
Konteks1:18 and the one who lives! I 6 was dead, but look, now I am alive – forever and ever – and I hold the keys of death and of Hades! 7
Mazmur 118:19-20
Konteks118:19 Open for me the gates of the just king’s temple! 8
I will enter through them and give thanks to the Lord.
118:20 This is the Lord’s gate –
the godly enter through it.
[5:11] 1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
[5:11] 2 tn Grk “elders, and the number of them was.” Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
[5:11] 3 tn Or “myriads of myriads.” Although μυριάς (murias) literally means “10,000,” the point of the combination here may simply be to indicate an incalculably huge number. See L&N 60.9.
[7:9] 4 tn The phrase “and here was” expresses the sense of καὶ ἰδού (kai idou).
[7:9] 5 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated before each of the following categories, since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.
[1:18] 6 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
[1:18] 7 tn Concerning “Hades” BDAG 19 s.v. ᾅδης 1 and 2 states: “Orig. proper noun, god of the nether world, ‘Hades’, then the nether world, Hades as place of the dead, Ac 2:27, 31 (Ps 15:10; Eccl 9:10; PGM 1, 179; 16, 8; Philo, Mos. 1, 195; Jos., Bell. 1, 596, Ant. 6, 332). Of Jonah’s fish ἐκ τοῦ κατωτάτου ᾅδου. In the depths, contrasted w. heaven ἕως (τοῦ) ᾅδου Mt 11:23; Lk 10:15 (PsSol 15:10; cp.; Is 14:11, 15); ἐν τῷ ᾅδῃ 16:23; ἐν ῝Αιδου ApcPt Rainer. Accessible by gates (but the pl. is also used [e.g. Hom., X., Ael. Aristid. 47, 20 K.=23 p. 450 D.] when only one gate is meant), hence πύλαι ᾅδου (Il. 5, 646; Is 38:10; Wsd 16:13; 3 Macc 5:51; Pss. Sol. 16:2. – Lucian, Menipp. 6 the magicians can open τοῦ ῝Αιδου τὰς πύλας and conduct people in and out safely) Mt 16:18…locked ἔχω τὰς κλεῖς τοῦ θανάτου καὶ τοῦ ᾅδου Rv 1:18 (the genitives are either obj. [Ps.-Apollod. 3, 12, 6, 10 Aeacus, the son of Zeus holds the κλεῖς τοῦ ῝Αιδου; SEG VIII, 574, 3 (III ad) τῷ τὰς κλεῖδας ἔχοντι τῶν καθ᾿ ῝Αιδου (restored)] or possess.; in the latter case death and Hades are personif.; s. 2)…Hades personif.…w. θάνατος (cp. Is 28:15; Job 38:17…) Rv 6:8; 20:13f.”
[1:18] sn In the OT, Hades was known as Sheol. It is the place where the unrighteous will reside (Matt 11:23; Luke 16:23; Rev 20:13-14).
[118:19] 8 tn Heb “the gates of justice.” The gates of the