The Pulpit Commentary on Revelation 1:19

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Write the things. The true reading and most English Versions give, "write therefore the things;" i.e. because thou hast seen me and received thy commission from me. The omission of "therefore" comes from the Genevan Version.

The threefold division of things probably refers to past, present, and future visions, not to the past, present, and future in history. But it is possible that "the things which thou sawest" refers to the visions, and "the things which are," etc.

, to the realities symbolized in the visions.

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