Revelation 4:10

4:10 the twenty-four elders throw themselves to the ground ¹  before the one who sits on the throne and worship the one who lives forever and ever, and they offer their crowns ²  before his ³  throne, saying:

Revelation 8:3

8:3 Another ⁴  angel holding ⁵  a golden censer ⁶  came and was stationed ⁷  at the altar. A ⁸  large amount of incense was given to him to offer up, with the prayers of all the saints, on the golden altar that is before the throne.

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¹ tn Grk “the twenty-four elders fall down.” BDAG 815 s.v. πίπτω 1.b.α.ב. has “fall down, throw oneself to the ground as a sign of devotion or humility, before high-ranking persons or divine beings.”

² sn See the note on the word crown in Rev 3:11.

³ tn The pronoun “his” is understood from the demonstrative force of the article τοῦ (tou) before θρόνου (qronou).

⁴ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

⁵ tn Grk “having.”

⁶ sn A golden censer was a bowl in which incense was burned. The imagery suggests the OT role of the priest.

⁷ tn The verb “to station” was used to translate ἑστάθη (Jestaqh) because it connotes the idea of purposeful arrangement in English, which seems to be the idea in the Greek.

⁸ tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation. Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.