Discovery BoxRevelation 5:8 
Context5:8 and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground 1 before the Lamb. Each 2 of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints). 3
Revelation 20:12
Context20:12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then 4 books were opened, and another book was opened – the book of life. 5 So 6 the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds. 7
Revelation 22:4
Context22:4 and they will see his face, and his name will be on their foreheads.
1 tn Grk “fell 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 tn Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation.
3 sn This interpretive comment by the author forms a parenthesis in the narrative.
4 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
5 tn Grk “another book was opened, which is of life.”
6 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the books being opened.
7 tn Grk “from the things written in the books according to their works.”
