An Exegetical Summary of Revelation 12

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How can the task of biblical exegesis be fruitful and meaningful when commentaries and lexicons provide contradictory interpretations and seem to support opposing translations? The 24-volume Exegetical Summaries Series asks important exegetical and interpretive questions—phrase-by-phrase—and summarizes and organizes the content from every major Bible commentary and dozens of lexicons. You can...

QUESTION—What relationship is indicated by γάρ ‘for’? It indicates that what follows is the reason why they were undefiled with women [Be, EC]: they were undefiled with women because they were virgins. That they were virgins was part of their fixed character and therefore they were undefiled with women [EC]. These were-redeemed from men (as) firstfruitsa to God and to-the Lamb, LEXICON—a. ἀπαρχή (LN 53.23) (BAGD 1.b.α. p. 81): ‘first-fruits’ [BAGD, BNTC; CEV, KJV, NAB, NET, NIV, NRSV, REB], ‘first

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