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Revelation 1:11

Context
1:11 saying: “Write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches – to Ephesus, 1  Smyrna, 2  Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicea.”

Revelation 1:20

Context
1:20 The mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand and the seven golden lampstands is this: 3  The seven stars are the angels 4  of the seven churches and the seven lampstands are the seven churches.

1 map For location see JP1 D2; JP2 D2; JP3 D2; JP4 D2.

2 tn Grk “and to Smyrna.” For stylistic reasons the conjunction καί (kai) and the preposition εἰς (eis) have not been translated before the remaining elements of the list. In lists with more than two elements contemporary English generally does not repeat the conjunction except between the next to last and last elements.

3 tn The words “is this” are supplied to make a complete sentence in English.

4 tn Or perhaps “the messengers.”



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