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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

Revelation 15:6

And the seven messengers who had the seven plagues, came forth, out of the sanctuary clothed with a precious stone, pure, bright, and girt about the breasts with girdles of gold.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Colors;   Girdle;   Linen;   Plague;   Seven;   Temple;   Thompson Chain Reference - Girdle;   The Topic Concordance - Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Girdles;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Linen;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Jesus Christ;   Order;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Linen;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Revelation, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Dress;   Moses;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Clothes;   Colours;   Day of Christ;   Girdle;   Gold ;   Linen ;   Moses ;   Plague;   Trade and Commerce;   Type;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Girdle;   Tabernacle, the;   Temple, the;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Girdle,;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Breast;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Flax;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Altar;   Gold;   Print;   Retribution;   Revelation of John:;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes wrapped around their chests.
King James Version (1611)
And the seuen Angels came out of the Temple, hauing the seuen plagues, clothed in pure and white linnen, and hauing their breasts girded with golden girdles.
King James Version
And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
New American Standard Bible
and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and their chests wrapped with golden sashes.
New Century Version
And the seven angels bringing the seven disasters came out of the temple. They were dressed in clean, shining linen and wore golden bands tied around their chests.
English Standard Version
and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in linen, clean and bright, and girded around their chests with golden sashes.
Berean Standard Bible
And out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, dressed in clean and bright linen and girded with golden sashes around their chests.
Contemporary English Version
And the seven angels who were bringing the terrible troubles were coming out of it. They were dressed in robes of pure white linen and wore belts made of pure gold.
Complete Jewish Bible
and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues. They were dressed in clean bright linen and had gold belts around their chests.
Darby Translation
and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in pure bright linen, and girded about the breasts with golden girdles.
Easy-to-Read Version
and the seven angels bringing the seven plagues came out. They were dressed in clean, shining linen cloth. They wore golden bands tied around their chests.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the seuen Angels came out of the Temple, which had the seuen plagues, clothed in pure and bright linnen, and hauing their breasts girded with golden girdles.
George Lamsa Translation
And the seven angels, having the seven plagues, came out of the temple, clothed in pure and fine linen, and having their breast girded with golden girdles.
Good News Translation
The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, dressed in clean shining linen and with gold bands tied around their chests.
Lexham English Bible
and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out from the temple, dressed in clean, bright linen garments, and girded with golden belts around their chests.
Literal Translation
And the seven angels having the seven plagues came forth out of the temple, having been clothed in clean and bright linen, and golden bands having been girded around the breasts.
Amplified Bible
and the seven angels who had the seven plagues (afflictions, calamities) came out of the temple, arrayed in linen, pure and gleaming, and wrapped around their chests were golden sashes.
American Standard Version
and there came out from the temple the seven angels that had the seven plagues, arrayed with precious stone, pure and bright, and girt about their breasts with golden girdles.
Bible in Basic English
And the seven angels who had the seven punishments came out from the house of God, clothed with linen, clean and bright and with bands of gold about their breasts.
Hebrew Names Version
The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out from the temple, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.
International Standard Version
The seven angels with the seven plagues came out of the temple wearing clean, shining linen with gold belts around their waists.Exodus 28:6,8; Ezekiel 44:17-18; Revelation 1:13; 15:1;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
And the seven angels came forth, having the seven plagues, from the temple, clothed in linen pure, resplendent, and girded at their breasts with zones of gold.
Murdock Translation
And the seven angels who had the seven plagues, went forth from the temple, clothed in clean splendid linen, and girded about their breast with girdles of gold.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the seuen angels came out of the temple, which had the seuen plagues, clothed in pure and bryght lynnen, and hauing their brestes girded with golden girdels.
English Revised Version
and there came out from the temple the seven angels that had the seven plagues, arrayed with precious stone, pure and bright, and girt about their breasts with golden girdles.
World English Bible
The seven angels who had the seven plagues came out from the temple, clothed with pure, bright linen, and wearing golden sashes around their breasts.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And the seven angels that had the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in pure, white linen, and having their breasts girt with golden girdles.
Weymouth's New Testament
and there came out of the sanctuary the seven angels who were bringing the seven plagues. The angels were clad in pure, bright linen, and had girdles of gold across their breasts.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
and seuene aungels hauynge seuene plagis, wenten out of the temple, and weren clothid with a stoon clene and white, and weren bifor gird with goldun girdlis about the brestis.
Update Bible Version
and there came out from the temple the seven angels that had the seven plagues, arrayed with pure bright linen, and girded about their breasts with golden girdles.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles.
New English Translation
and the seven angels who had the seven plagues came out of the temple, dressed in clean bright linen, wearing wide golden belts around their chests.
New King James Version
And out of the temple came the seven angels having the seven plagues, clothed in pure bright linen, and having their chests girded with golden bands.
New Living Translation
The seven angels who were holding the seven plagues came out of the Temple. They were clothed in spotless white linen with gold sashes across their chests.
New Life Bible
The seven angels who had the seven last kinds of trouble came out of the house of God. They were wearing clothes made of clean white linen. They were wearing belts made of gold around their chests.
New Revised Standard
and out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, robed in pure bright linen, with golden sashes across their chests.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed with clean and white linen and girt about the breasts with golden girdles.
Revised Standard Version
and out of the temple came the seven angels with the seven plagues, robed in pure bright linen, and their breasts girded with golden girdles.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and the seven angelles cam out of the temple which had the seven plages clothed in pure and bryght lynnen and havynge their brestes gyrded with golden gerdelles.
Young's Literal Translation
and come forth did the seven messengers having the seven plagues, out of the sanctuary, clothed in linen, pure and shining, and girded round the breasts with golden girdles:
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
and the seuen angelles came out of the temple, which had the seuen plages, clothed in pure and bryght lynne, and hauynge their brestes gyrded with golden gerdelles.
Mace New Testament (1729)
then the seven angels, who held the seven plagues, came out of the temple, cloathed in pure white linen, wearing upon their breasts girdles of gold.
Simplified Cowboy Version
The seven angels came out of it carrying the seven plagues. They wore solid white shirts with gold ties.

Contextual Overview

5 And, after these things, I saw, and the sanctuary of The Tent of Witness in heaven, was opened; 6 And the seven messengers who had the seven plagues, came forth, out of the sanctuary clothed with a precious stone, pure, bright, and girt about the breasts with girdles of gold. 7 And, one of the four living creatures, gave, unto the seven messengers, seven golden bowls, full of the wrath of God who liveth unto the ages of ages. 8 And the sanctuary was filled with smoke by reason of the glory of God, and by reason of his power; and, no one, was able to enter into the sanctuary, until the seven plagues of the seven messengers should be ended.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the seven angels: Revelation 15:1

clothed: Revelation 1:13, Exodus 28:5-8, Ezekiel 44:17, Ezekiel 44:18, Luke 24:4

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 5:12 - arrayed Proverbs 14:3 - the mouth Ezekiel 9:2 - and one Daniel 10:5 - loins Daniel 12:6 - man Mark 13:27 - shall he Revelation 14:17 - came Revelation 16:1 - the seven Revelation 16:17 - there Revelation 17:1 - one

Cross-References

Genesis 15:3
And Abram said - Lo, to me, hast thou not given seed, -
Genesis 15:6
And he had faith in Yahweh, - so he reckoned it to him as righteousness.
Genesis 15:14
moreover also, the nation whom they will serve, I, am going to judge, and after that, shall they come forth with great substance.
Genesis 15:20
and the Hittite and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim;
Psalms 106:31
So it was counted unto him, for righteousness, To generation after generation, unto times age abiding.
Romans 4:9
This happiness, then, is it for the circumcision, or for the uncircumcision? for we say - His faith was reckoned unto Abraham as righteousness:
Romans 4:11
And, a sign, he received namely of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had while yet uncircumcised; to the end he might be father of all that believe during uncircumcision, to the end the same righteousness might be reckoned unto them, -
2 Corinthians 5:19
How that, God, was in Christ, reconciling, a world, unto himself, not reckoning, unto them, their offences, - and hath put, in us, the reconciling discourse.
Hebrews 11:8
By faith, being called, Abraham obeyed - to come forth into a place he was destined to receive for an inheritance; and he came forth, not well knowing whither he was coming.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the seven angels came out of the temple,.... By which it appears, that they are such who are of, or belong to the church of Christ; and are either ministers, or members of churches, who will be the executioners of God's wrath upon the beast, and his followers; some copies, and the Complutensian edition, read, "out of heaven":

having the seven plagues; that is, they were appointed to inflict them, and were preparing and furnishing for it, and quickly had orders to do it:

clothed in pure and white linen; in which habit angels have been used to appear, as at our Lord's resurrection and ascension, and is by some thought to be expressive of the purity and holiness of angels; but rather saints are meant, who appear in the habit of priests, being all made kings and priests; and denotes their being clothed with the pure and spotless robe of Christ's righteousness, which is fine linen, clean and white, and the righteousness of the saints, Revelation 19:8 and also their spiritual joy in their present situation, and in the view of the destruction of antichrist, their sackcloth being put off, in which they, the witnesses, before appeared. So the linen garment of the high priest was, as Philo the Jew says n, made of "fine linen", καθαρωτατος, "most pure". The Alexandrian copy, and some copies of the Vulgate Latin version, and some exemplars mentioned by Andreas Caesariensis, an ancient commentator on this book, read, "clothed with a stone, pure and white"; as if they were arrayed in garments of stone, which is not likely; unless reference is had to the stone asbestos, of an iron colour, found, as Pliny says o, in the mountains of Arcadia, of which linen was made, called "asbestinum", and of that garments; which were so far from being consumed by fire, that they became clean and brighter by it; or to the Carystian stone, which the inhabitants of Carystus used to comb, spin, and weave, and make carpets of p.

And having their breasts girded with golden girdles; such an one as Christ himself was girded with, Revelation 1:13 and this some understand of the love, which the breasts of angels are filled with towards the saints, and their readiness to perform all good offices to them, and to execute the judgments of God upon their enemies, whenever they have orders: but since these angels come out of the temple, and members of Gospel churches seem designed, rather this is to be understood either of the grace of faith, which is much more precious than of gold that perisheth, which receives the righteousness of Christ, puts it on, and girds it about the believer; or of love, the love of God and Christ, which encompass the saints about, and constrain them, and engage them in fervent love to them, and one another: or of the girdle of truth, Ephesians 6:14 which is near and close to them, and which keeps them close to Christ; nor can they depart totally and finally from him, or that; or in general, this may denote their strength and readiness for what service they shall be called to; see Luke 12:35.

n De Somniis, p. 597. o Nat. Hist. l. 37. c. 10. p Pancirol, rer. memorab. par. 1. tit. 4. & Salmuth in ib. Plin. l. 19. c. 1. Turueb. Adversar. l. 23. c. 1. Schotti Thaumaturg, l. 2. sect. 10. p. 118.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the seven angels - See the notes on Revelation 15:1.

Came out of the temple - Were seen to come from the temple; that is, from the immediate presence of God.

Having the seven plagues - See the notes on Revelation 15:1. Each one entrusted with a single “plague” to be executed upon the earth. The meaning here is, that they were designated or appointed to execute those plagues in judgments. The symbols of their office - the golden vials - were given to them afterward, Revelation 15:7.

Clothed in pure and white linen - The emblem of holiness - the common representation in regard to the heavenly inhabitants. See the notes on Revelation 3:4; Revelation 7:13. Compare Matthew 17:2; Luke 9:29; Mark 16:5.

And having their breasts girded with golden girdles - See the notes on Revelation 1:13. The meaning is, that they were attired in a manner befitting their rank and condition.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 15:6. The seven angels came out of the temple — To show that they were sent from God himself.

Clothed in pure and white linen — Habited as priests. For these habits see Exodus 28:6; Exodus 28:8; and Revelation 1:13.


 
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