Discovery BoxRevelation 8:3 
Context8:3 Another 1 angel holding 2 a golden censer 3 came and was stationed 4 at the altar. A 5 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.
Revelation 14:15
Context14:15 Then 6 another angel came out of the temple, shouting in a loud voice to the one seated on the cloud, “Use 7 your sickle and start to reap, 8 because the time to reap has come, since the earth’s harvest is ripe!”
Revelation 14:18
Context14:18 Another 9 angel, who was in charge of 10 the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to the angel 11 who had the sharp sickle, “Use 12 your sharp sickle and gather 13 the clusters of grapes 14 off the vine of the earth, 15 because its grapes 16 are now ripe.” 17
Revelation 20:12
Context20:12 And I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne. Then 18 books were opened, and another book was opened – the book of life. 19 So 20 the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to their deeds. 21
1 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
2 tn Grk “having.”
3 sn A golden censer was a bowl in which incense was burned. The imagery suggests the OT role of the priest.
4 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.
5 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.
6 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
7 tn Grk “Send out.”
8 tn The aorist θέρισον (qerison) has been translated ingressively.
9 tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
10 tn Grk “who had authority over.” This appears to be the angel who tended the fire on the altar.
11 tn Grk “to the one having the sharp sickle”; the referent (the angel in v. 17) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
12 tn Grk “Send.”
13 tn On this term BDAG 1018 s.v. τρυγάω states: “‘gather in’ ripe fruit, esp. harvest (grapes) w. acc. of the fruit (POslo. 21, 13 [71 ad]; Jos., Ant. 4, 227) Lk 6:44; Rv 14:18 (in imagery, as in the foll. places)…W. acc. of that which bears the fruit gather the fruit of the vine…or the vineyard (s. ἄμπελος a) Rv 14:19.”
14 tn On this term BDAG 181 s.v. βότρυς states, “bunch of grapes Rv 14:18…The word is also found in the Phrygian Papias of Hierapolis, in a passage in which he speaks of the enormous size of the grapes in the new aeon (in the Lat. transl. in Irenaeus 5, 33, 2f.): dena millia botruum Papias (1:2). On this see Stephan. Byz. s.v. Εὐκαρπία: Metrophanes says that in the district of Εὐκαρπία in Phrygia Minor the grapes were said to be so large that one bunch of them caused a wagon to break down in the middle.”
15 tn The genitive τῆς γῆς (ths ghs), taken symbolically, could be considered a genitive of apposition.
16 tn Or perhaps, “its bunches of grapes” (a different Greek word from the previous clause). L&N 3.38 states, “the fruit of grapevines (see 3.27) – ‘grape, bunch of grapes.’ τρύγησον τοὺς βότρυας τῆς ἀμπέλου τῆς γῆς, ὅτι ἤκμασαν αἱ σταφυλαὶ αὐτῆς ‘cut the grapes from the vineyard of the earth because its grapes are ripe’ Re 14:18. Some scholars have contended that βότρυς means primarily a bunch of grapes, while σταφυλή designates individual grapes. In Re 14:18 this difference might seem plausible, but there is scarcely any evidence for such a distinction, since both words may signify grapes as well as bunches of grapes.”
17 tn On the use of ἥκμασαν (hkmasan) BDAG 36 s.v. ἀκμάζω states, “to bloom…of grapes…Rv 14:18.”
18 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
19 tn Grk “another book was opened, which is of life.”
20 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the implied result of the books being opened.
21 tn Grk “from the things written in the books according to their works.”
