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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Revelation 20:5
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(The rest of the dead did not live again until the 1000 years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
but the wother of the deed men lyved not agayne vntyll the .M. yere were fynisshed. This is that fyrst resurreccion.
The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.
(The others that were dead did not live again until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first raising of the dead.
The rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This [is] the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead didn't live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead lived not again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
No one else who was dead rose to Life until the thousand years were at an end. This is the First Resurrection.
Othere of deed men lyueden not, til a thousynde yeeris ben endid. This is the first ayen risynge.
The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were complete. This is the first resurrection.
These people are the first to be raised to life, and they are especially blessed and holy. The second death has no power over them. They will be priests for God and Christ and will rule with them for a thousand years. No other dead people were raised to life until a thousand years later.
The rest of the dead [the non-believers] did not come to life again until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead did not come to life again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first coming back from the dead.
(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over.) This is the first resurrection.
the rest of the dead did not live till the thousand years had been completed. This [is] the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years were over. This is the first resurrection.
This is the first resurrection.
This is the first resurrection.
But the rest of the dead liued not againe vntill the thousand yeeres were finished. This is the first resurrection.
This is the first resurrection. (The rest of the dead did not come back to life until the thousand years had ended.)
The rest of the dead did not come to life again until the 1,000 years were finished. This is the first time many people are raised from the dead at the same time.
(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
But the rest of the dead men shall not liue againe, vntill the thousand yeres be finished: this is the first resurrection.
This is the first resurrection.
The rest of the dead lived not, till the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
But the other of the dead men shall not lyue agayne, vntyll the thousande yeres be finished. This is the first resurrection.
(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were over.) This is the first raising of the dead.
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed.
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed.) This is the first resurrection.
But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
and the rest of the dead did not live again till the thousand years may be finished; this [is] the first rising again.
but the other of the deed men lyued not agayne, vntill the thousand yeare were fynisshed. This is that fyrst resurreccion.
but the rest of the dead shall not live again until the thousand years are finished. this is the first resurrection.
(The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were finished.) This is the first resurrection.
But the rest of the dead did not live again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.
(The rest of the dead did not come back to life until after the one thousand years were over.) This is the first raising of the dead.
The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were completed. This is the first resurrection.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
the rest: Revelation 20:8, Revelation 20:9, Revelation 19:20, Revelation 19:21
This: Revelation 11:11, Revelation 11:15, Ezekiel 37:2-14, Romans 11:15
Reciprocal: Psalms 49:14 - upright Isaiah 26:14 - dead Isaiah 26:19 - dead men Ezekiel 37:10 - the breath John 11:25 - I am 1 Thessalonians 4:16 - and the Revelation 11:18 - and the time Revelation 20:6 - Blessed
Cross-References
El-Elohim-Yahweh, El-Elohim-Yahweh, he knoweth, and, Israel, he, shall know, - if in rebellion, or if in treachery, against Yahweh, do not save us this day:
As for thee, therefore, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, with a whole heart and with uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, - and, my statutes and my regulations, wilt keep,
I beseech thee, O Yahweh, remember, I pray thee, how I have walked before thee, in truth, and with a whole heart, and, that which is good in thine eyes, have I done! And Hezekiah wept aloud.
But I know, O my God, that, thou, art proving the heart, and, with uprightness, wilt thou be pleased, - I, in the uprightness of my heart, have willingly offered all these things, now, therefore, thy people who are found here, have I seen with joy, offering willingly unto thee.
Pure am, I, without transgression, - Clean am, I, and have no iniquity;
Yahweh, will judge the peoples, - Do me justice, O Yahweh, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity upon me,
The clean of hands, and pure of heart, - who hath not uplifted, to falsehood, his soul, nor sworn deceitfully,
Let, blamelessness and uprightness, watch over me, because I have waited for thee.
I will bathe, in pureness, my hands, - so will I go in procession around thine altar, O Yahweh;
Altogether in vain, Have I cleansed my heart, And bathed in pureness, my hands;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But the rest of the dead,.... Meaning not the dead saints, for they will be all raised together, but the wicked dead; and not them as morally or spiritually, but as corporeally dead: these
lived not again until the thousand years were finished; so that there will be such an exact term of years between the resurrection of the saints and the resurrection of the wicked; nor will there be any wicked living upon earth, or in bodies, during that time; for the wicked dead will not be raised with the saints at Christ's coming, and the wicked living will be destroyed in the conflagration of the world, and neither of them shall live again until the end of these years. This clause is left out in the Syriac version.
This is the first resurrection; which is not to be connected with the living again of the rest of the dead at the end of the thousand years, for that will be the second and last resurrection; but with the witnesses of Jesus, and the true worshippers of God living again, in order to reign with Christ a thousand years; for this resurrection is not meant of a resurrection from the death of sin to a life of grace; though the work of grace and conversion is sometimes so represented, it cannot be designed here; for such a resurrection the above witnesses and worshippers were partakers of before their sufferings, and which was antecedently necessary to their witness and worship; besides, this resurrection was future in John's time, and was what was to be done at once, and was peculiar to the commencement of the thousand years; whereas the spiritual resurrection was before his time, and has been ever since the beginning, and is successive in all ages, and not affixed to anyone period of time, though there may be more instances of it in one age than in another; nor is this ever called the first resurrection, nor can any reason be given why it should; for though one man may be converted before another, his conversion cannot be called the first resurrection, since there are many instances of this nature before, and many more after; besides, at this time, there will be none of God's people to be raised in this sense; they will be all quickened and converted before; the nation of the Jews will be born again, and the fulness of the Gentiles brought in; to which may be added, that if the first resurrection is to be understood in a spiritual sense, then the second resurrection of the wicked dead, at the end of the thousand years, must be understood in like manner: nor is a reviving of the cause of Christ and his interest here intended, particularly through the calling of the Jews, and the numerous conversion of the Gentiles; for though the former of these especially is signified by the quickening of the dry bones in Ezekiel's vision, and is expressed by bringing the Jews out of their graves, and is called life from the dead, Romans 11:15 yet that cannot with any propriety be called the first resurrection; for there was a great reviving of true religion in the time of John the Baptist, Christ and his apostles, especially after the effusion of the Spirit on the day of Pentecost, both among Jews and Gentiles; and there was a revival of the Christian religion in the times of Constantine, and again at the reformation from Popery; and as for the conversion of the Jews and the Gentiles in the latter day, that will be the last reviving of the cause and interest of Christ, which will usher in his spiritual reign, and therefore should rather be called the last, than the first resurrection; besides, this affair will be over before this time; this is signified by the marriage of the Lamb in the preceding chapter; and the kingdoms of the world will become Christ's under the seventh trumpet, and both will be in the spiritual reign: moreover, this does by no means agree with the character of the persons who shall share in this resurrection, they are such who shall have lived and suffered, at least many of them, under Rome Pagan and Papal, Revelation 20:4 and therefore can never be understood of Jews and Gentiles in the latter day, when neither one nor other shall be any more. To which may be subjoined, that if this was the sense, then this cause must revive also among the wicked at the end of the thousand years, whereas when they are raised, they will attempt the very reverse. It remains then, that by this first resurrection must be meant a corporeal one; for as some of those that will live again were corporeally beheaded, and all of them corporeally died, they will be corporeally raised again; and in such sense will the rest of the dead be raised at the end of these years; with respect to which this is properly called the first resurrection; it is the first in time, it will be at the beginning of the thousand years, and the second will be at the close; the dead in Christ will rise first in order of time, Revelation 20:4- :; they will have the dominion in this sense over the wicked in the morning of the resurrection: Christ's resurrection is indeed first, but that is the cause and pledge of this; and there were particular resurrections both before and after his, but they were to a mortal state; and there were some saints that rose from the dead immediately after his resurrection; but these were but few, and were designed as an earnest of this; besides, though it was a resurrection, it was not the resurrection; and it may be further observed, that the resurrection of the righteous will be the first at the coming of Christ, 1 Corinthians 15:22 there will be none then before theirs; theirs will be the first; the resurrection of the wicked, to which this is opposed as the first, will not be till a thousand years after: add to all which, that this resurrection will be, η πρωτη, "the first", that is, the best, as the word is used in Luke 15:22 the chief, the principal; the resurrection of the wicked can hardly be called a resurrection in comparison of it, and in many places theirs is not taken notice of where this is, as in 1 Corinthians 15:12 the righteous will be raised by virtue of union to Christ, in consequence of his having the charge both of their souls and bodies, and in conformity to his glorious body, and to eternal life, which will not be the case of the wicked,
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But the rest of the dead - In contradistinction from the beheaded martyrs, and from those who had kept themselves pure in the times of great temptation. The phrase “rest of the dead” here would most naturally refer to the “same general class” which was before mentioned - the pious dead. The meaning is, that the martyrs would be honored as if they were raised up and the others not - that is, that special respect would be shown to their principles, their memory, and their character. In other words, “special” honor would be shown “to a spirit of eminent piety” during that period above the “common and ordinary” piety which has been manifested in the church. The “rest of the dead” - the pious dead - would indeed be raised up and rewarded, but they would occupy comparatively humble places, as if they did not partake in the exalted triumphs when the world should be subdued to the Saviour. Their places in honor, in rank, and in reward would be “beneath” that of those who in fiery times had maintained unshaken fidelity to the cause of truth.
Lived not - On the word “lived,” see the notes on Revelation 20:4. That is, they “lived” not during that period in the special sense in which it is said Revelation 20:4 that the eminent saints and martyrs lived. They did not come into remembrance; their principles were not what then characterized the church; they did not see, as the martyrs did, their principles and mode of life in the ascendency, and consequently they had not the augmented happiness and honor which the more eminent saints and martyrs had.
Until the thousand years were finished - Then all who were truly the children of God, though some might be less eminent than others had been, would come into remembrance, and would have their proper place in the rewards of heaven. The “language” here is not necessarily to be interpreted as meaning that they would be raised up then, or would live then, whatever may be true on that point. It is merely an emphatic mode of affirming that “up to float period they would not live” in the sense in which it is affirmed that the others would. But it is not affirmed that they would even then “live” immediately. A “long” interval might elapse before that would occur in the general resurrection of the dead. See the Analysis of the chapter.
This is the first resurrection - The resurrection of the saints and martyrs, as specified in Revelation 20:4. It is called the “first” resurrection in contradistinction from the second and last - the general resurrection - when all the dead will be “literally” raised up from their graves and assembled for the judgment, Revelation 20:12. It is not necessary to suppose that what is called here the “first resurrection” will resemble the real and literal resurrection in every respect. All that is meant is, that there will be such a resemblance as to make it proper to call it a resurrection - a coming to life again. This will be, as explained in the notes on Revelation 20:4, in the honor done to the martyrs, in the restoration of their principles as the great actuating principles of the church, and perhaps in the increased happiness conferred on them in heaven, and in their being employed in promoting the cause of truth in the world.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Revelation 20:5. The rest of the dead lived not again — It is generally supposed from these passages that all who have been martyred for the truth of God shall be raised a thousand years before the other dead, and reign on earth with Christ during that time, after which the dead in general shall be raised; but this also is very doubtful.
