Rev. 4:3 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Apparel of Women Book I
gems) are not generally worn with a view to ostentation. Emeralds[42]
Rev. 4:4 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI
he will sit down on the four-and-twenty thrones,[191]
Rev. 4:4 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian De Corona
much more with a crown on it will she offend those (elders) who perhaps are then wearing crowns above.[59]
Rev. 4:4 - NIV, NAB - in Victorinus On the Creation of the World
Therefore, doubtless, there are appointed also twelve angels of the day and twelve angels of the night, in accordance, to wit, with the number of hours. For these are the twenty-four witnesses of the days and nights[46]
Rev. 4:4 - NIV, NAB - in Revelation of Paul
And the heaven was shaken like a leaf, and I saw the four and twenty elders lying on their face; and I saw the altar, and the throne, and the veil; and all of them entreated the glory of God;[26]
Rev. 4:5 - NIV, NAB - in Victorinus On the Creation of the World
-the seven eyes are the seven spirits of the Lamb;[27]
Rev. 4:5 - NIV, NAB - in Victorinus On the Creation of the World
seven torches burning before the throne of God[28]
Rev. 4:6 - NIV, NAB - in Victorinus On the Creation of the World
And to proceed further still from that principle, lo, there are four living creatures before God's throne,[3]
Rev. 4:7 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III
For the cherubim, too, were four-faced, and their faces were images of the dispensation of the Son of God. For, [as the Scripture] says, "The first living creature was like a lion,"[145]
Rev. 4:7 - NIV, NAB - in A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity
Hence it is that He also sitteth above the Cherubim; that is, He presides over the variety of His works, the living creatures which hold the control over the rest being subjected to His throne:[41]
Rev. 4:8 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Prayer
Otherwise, when is the name of God not "holy," and "hallowed" through Himself, seeing that of Himself He sanctifies all others-He to whom that surrounding circle of angels cease not to say, "Holy, holy, holy? "[20]
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