Revelation 15 — Greek text and reception
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Chapter 15
The last plagues and the song
Verse 15:1
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous: seven angels having seven plagues, the last ones, because in them the fury of God was completed.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: The seven last plagues are a great sign. Was completed presents the end of divine fury within the vision before the bowls are poured.
Reception: R061 (Victorinus tradition; scope 15:1–2).
Verse 15:2
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And I saw something like a glassy sea mixed with fire, and those conquering the beast and its image and the number of its name standing upon the glassy sea, having lyres of God.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Upon renders epi with the accusative; beside is another spatial interpretation of the glassy sea.
Reception: R061 (Victorinus tradition; scope 15:1–2).
Verse 15:3
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And they sing the song of Moses, the slave of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, “Great and marvelous are Your works, Lord God Almighty; righteous and true are Your ways, O King of the ages.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: King of the ages is the accessed reading, not King of the nations or saints.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Textual [G]: NA28 reads τῶν ἐθνῶν (SBLGNT, with WH, τῶν αἰώνων); the rendering above follows SBLGNT, and NA28 would read "King of the nations".
Verse 15:4
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
Who will not fear, Lord, and glorify Your name, because You alone are holy? For all the nations will come and worship before You, because Your righteous acts have been manifested.”
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: All nations are said to come and worship because God's righteous acts are manifested. Holy translates hosios here, distinct in wording from hagios in 4:8.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
The seven bowls
Verse 15:5
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And after these things I saw, and the temple of the tent of the testimony in heaven was opened,
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Temple of the tent of the testimony retains the nested sanctuary description. Testimony is not changed into a different covenant-object name.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 15:6
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
and the seven angels having the seven plagues came out of the temple, clothed in pure, bright linen and girded around their chests with golden belts.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Linen, linon, is the accessed word; the rendering does not substitute stone.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 15:7
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And one of the four living creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the fury of God, who lives for the ages of the ages.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: One living creature distributes seven golden bowls to seven angels. God's enduring life is specified alongside the bowls' fullness of fury.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.
Verse 15:8
Greek–English: Literal-Smooth (Saints Priority)
And the temple was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from His power, and no one was able to enter the temple until the seven plagues of the seven angels were completed.
Textual & Reception Notes
Textual [G]: Smoke derives from God's glory and power, and entry is barred until all seven plagues end. The prohibition is temporal, not the temple's permanent abolition.
Reception: No passage-specific reception verified in this review.