*A star (*) is used to mark verbs that are historical presents in the Greek which have been translated with an English past tense in order to conform to modern usage. The translators recognized that in some contexts the present tense seems more unexpected and unjustified to the English reader than a past tense would have been. But Greek authors frequently used the present tense for the sake of heightened vividness, thereby transporting their readers in imagination to the actual scene at the time of occurence. However, the translators felt that it would be wise to change these historical presents to English past tenses.

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And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near.

Then he told me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this scroll, because the time is near.

Then he said to me, “Don’t seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, because the time is near.

Then he instructed me, “Do not seal up the prophetic words in this book, for the time is near.

And he said to me, “Do not seal up the words of the prophecy of this book, for the time is near!

And he saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book: for the time is at hand.

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