Only here; Revelation 9:2. 1 Richard Chenevix Trench, Commentary on the Epistles to the Seven Churches in Asia (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 1861), 35. For the saved, it is a judgment of salvation leading to rewards and losses. Understanding this, the concept of man returning to God is from east to west. Some explain electrum, an alloy of gold and silver: others, brass of Lebanon ( Αίβανος ) others, brass of the color of frankincense ( λίβανος ): others again, that it is an hybrid compound of the Greek χαλκός brass, and the Hebrew laban to make white. I understand not of what profit the determination will be to us. BibliographyWesley, John. Off. We will never be judged for our sin, because Christ took the punishment on our behalf. By comparing the passages in Ezekiel, Ezekiel 1:27; Ezekiel 8:2. Ezekiel 1:24; Ezekiel 43:2. voice. See Robinson, Lexicon, and Wetstein, in loco. “His voice as the sound of many waters.” This reveals His awful denunciation of sin. And his feet like unto fine brass: there are nice disquisitions what this chalcolibanum (which we translate, fine brass) was: vid. (Witham). [Note: Wiersbe, 2:569.]. For reasons mentioned in Revelation 1:13, the voice Daniel heard was most likely that of a mighty angel. BibliographyHengstenberg, Ernst. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks; 13 And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle. Thursday, 27 August 2020. It calls out for wisdom and discernment to be applied by the people of the world. But the startling vision he received on Patmos was very different from the gentle Carpenter from Nazareth, Who knelt before him in that upper room to wash his dirty feet or Who had called him to "follow Me" on the banks of the Galilee. This image the Evangelist adopts to describe the voice of Christ—strong and majestic, amid the Babel-sounds of earth. This description of “many waters,” gives the sense of the roaring of the sea, crashing and terrifying. But whether the word(786) be a hybrid term composed of χαλκός and לָכָן, and therefore mean glowing white;(787) or “brass from Lebanon;”(788) or be taken as an intentionally mysterious designation of the ambiguous ἤλεκτρον, which denotes an alloy,(789) and also amber,(790) and therefore corresponds in some degree to the former as well as to the second part of χαλκολίβανος,(791)—cannot be certainly decided. Broadman Press 1932,33. Salmasius and Ewald find the compound to be furnace brass; Bochart, white brass, alluding to the white heat; but most probable of all seems Lebanon brass or fine brass, first brought from Mount Lebanon, and thence generalized in meaning to mountain brass; an explanation furnished by the old Greek commentator Arethas, and sustained by the Syriac and Ethiopic Versions. Revelation 1:15. Notes. poet. Are the feet of him who brings good news. Having thus ascertained the sense, we shall not need to be in doubt as to the derivation. Unto fine brass,— The original word χαλκολιβανον, signifies some kind of fine copper or brass; the inferior kind of auri chalcum, in use among the Romans. His voice, however, is here regarded in its terribleness to His foes. The entire imagery suggests superhuman grandeur of size, and requires a correspondent power of voice. "Feet like molten brass." The feet of the priests were bare in ministering in the sanctuary. Finding the new version too difficult to understand? John gives the most disconcerting description of the Lord Jesus - from the top of His head to the sole of His feet, and each aspect of His appearance spoke of His might; majesty; dominion; glory and power. Revelation 17:1 and Revelation 13:1; but, as Düsterdieck remarks, there seems to be no such allusion here, but only to the power of the voice as resembling the rushing of many waters. The exact meaning of this word (used only here) is not certain. His voice sounded like a rushing river such as the Niagara at its Falls, namely, authoritative, powerful, and irresistible (cf. Surely Your glory is above all of creation. "Commentary on Revelation 1:15". Revelation 2:18. χαλκός brass; λίβανος, incense: χαλκολίβανος, a species of brass, like incense. (781) As the entire picture has to do with more than color,(782) and as the type of Daniel 10:6(783) leads to the idea of brass,(784) incense can in no way be thought of. Daniel 10:6; Ezekiel 43:2; Ezekiel 1:24. . 34, c. 2; Florus, lib. ‘And his voice as the voice of many waters.’. They are the part of the body that picks up defilement while walking, and thus need to be washed as it is picked up. 23. Along with the eyes that blaze like fire, these are symbolic of great power and authority (see Daniel 10:6; Ezekiel 43:2). Compare Ezekiel 1:24; Daniel 10:6. This was a finer and purer brass than the rough and variable coinage-alloy. As the voice of many waters - Roaring aloud, and bearing down all before them. But his feet are not said to be brass, but only like brass; and that not in solidity, being melted, but in their intensity of colouring and splendour. Others read πεπυρωμένοι. Jos. [Note: There can be no doubt that the Chalkolibanos corresponds to the Nechoshet Kalal of Ezekiel 1:7, where it is said of the Cherubim: "And they sparkle (in the feet) as the aspect of Nechoshet Kalal;'' and in Daniel it is said of Michael: "And his arms and his feet like the aspect of Nechoshet Kalul." To such eyes of flame,[776] belong feet ὅμοιοι χαλκολιβάνῳ ὡς ἐν καμίνῳ πεπυρωμένῃ, which tread down unholy enemies. Who says to Zion, 1832. . The voice, from the connection is that with which he chides his enemies whether within or without the church, and which for them utters the thundering and destructive cry, Thus far, but no farther. For which reason the words, "as if they glowed in an oven," are added by way of explanation.