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This set of detailed commentaries provides valuable exegetical, historical, cultural, and linguistic information on the original text. Over the years this series has been instrumental in shedding light on the Scriptures so that translators all over the world could complete the important task of putting God's Word into the many languages spoken in the world today. Over the years church leaders...

It should be noticed that the speaker continues to be the glorified Christ, who at 1:17 begins to speak to John and continues to do so to the end of chapter 3. Since this is the beginning of a new chapter, it will be helpful in some languages to say “And then he said to me …” or “The one whose form was like that of a human being then said to me …” A translator may also wish to introduce the speaker at the beginning of each of the seven letters, but it is not easy to decide how to identify him. “He
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