Revelation Chapter 5 verse 14 Holy Bible
And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the elders fell down and worshipped.
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And the four beasts said, So be it. And the rulers went down on their faces and gave worship.
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And the four living creatures said, Amen; and the elders fell down and did homage.
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And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.
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The four living creatures said, "Amen!" The {TR adds "twenty-four"}elders fell down and worshiped.{TR adds "the one living forever and ever"}
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and the four living creatures said, `Amen!' and the twenty-four elders fell down and they bow before Him who is living to the ages of the ages.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped him that liveth forever and ever. (On the signification of the four beasts as representative of creation, and the four-and-twenty elders as typical of the Church, see on Revelation 4:4 and 6.) Three stages are marked in the hymn of adoration before this concluding verse: (1) the four living beings and the four and twenty elders worship the Lamb, and commemorate their redemption by him; they are able to sing "a new song" - the song of the redeemed; (2) the angels join in the worship of the Lamb, ascribing to him the consummation of all perfection; (3) then all created things praise God and the Lamb. In conclusion, the representatives of redeemed creation once more join in the eucharistic hymn, and prostrate themselves in worship before the Triune God. This forms the end of one act of the heavenly drama. The opening of the seals now follows, and a description of the attendant circumstances is given. . . .
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) And the four beasts . . .--Better, And the four living beings said, Amen (or, the Amen). And the elders (omit "four and twenty") fell down and worshipped. The remaining words of this verse are wanting in some of the best MSS., and they spoil thegraphic force of the description. The "Amen" rises from universal nature; the Church of Christ falls down in silent adoration. Thought and feeling assert themselves above all language. There are times when silence is the most eloquent applause; there are times when it is also the most real worship. "Let thy prayers be without words, rather than thy words, without prayer" was a wise precept of an old divine. An English and an Italian poet have given expression to the same feeling of the weakness of words. "O speech !" sang Dante, when telling his final vision--"How feeble and how faint art thou to giveConception birth."--Parad. xxxiii.Thomson takes refuge in silence from the overwhelming thoughts of the divine glory:--"I loseMyself in Him, in light ineffable.Come, then, expressive silence, muse His praise."Here the inspired seer describes the chorus of praise as dying into a silence born of awe and gratefulness and love.
