1 After these things I looked, and behold a door was opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard, as it were, of a trumpet speaking with me, said: Come up hither, and I will shew thee the things which must be done hereafter. 2 And immediately I was in the spirit: and behold there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the throne one sitting. 3 And he that sat, was to the sight like the jasper and the sardine stone; and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. 4 And round about the throne were four and twenty seats; and upon the seats, four and twenty ancients sitting, clothed in white garments, and on their heads were crowns of gold. 5 And from the throne proceeded lightnings, and voices, and thunders; and there were seven lamps burning before the throne, which are the seven spirits of God. 6 And in the sight of the throne was, as it were, a sea of glass like to crystal; and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind. 7 And the first living creature was like a lion: and the second living creature like a calf: and the third living creature, having the face, as it were, of a man: and the fourth living creature was like an eagle flying. 8 And the four living creatures had each of them six wings; and round about and within they are full of eyes. And they rested not day and night, saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come. 9 And when those living creatures gave glory, and honour, and benediction to him that sitteth on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever; 10 The four and twenty ancients fell down before him that sitteth on the throne, and adored him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying: 11 Thou art worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory, and honour, and power: because thou hast created all things; and for thy will they were, and have been created.
Apocalipsis · Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
Apocalipsis 4 Douay-Rheims (revisión Challoner), edición estadounidense de 1899
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Referencias cruzadas (11)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Apocalipsis 11:12; Éxodo 24:12; Apocalipsis 1:19; Apocalipsis 1:10; Marcos 1:10
- 2 Apocalipsis 1:10; 1 Reyes 22:19; Isaías 6:1; Ezequiel 3:12–14; Ezequiel 1:26
- 3 Ezequiel 1:28; Apocalipsis 21:11; Génesis 9:13–16; Apocalipsis 10:1; Ezequiel 28:13
- 4 Mateo 19:28; Apocalipsis 11:16; Apocalipsis 4:10; Apocalipsis 7:11; Apocalipsis 20:4
- 5 Apocalipsis 11:19; Apocalipsis 8:5; Apocalipsis 1:4; Apocalipsis 5:6; Apocalipsis 16:17–18
- 6 Apocalipsis 15:2; Apocalipsis 5:6; Apocalipsis 4:8–9; Apocalipsis 14:3; Ezequiel 10:12
- 7 Ezequiel 10:14; Ezequiel 1:10; Ezequiel 10:21; Ezequiel 1:8; Apocalipsis 4:6
- 8 Isaías 6:2–13; Apocalipsis 1:8; Hebreos 13:8; Apocalipsis 4:6; Éxodo 15:11
- 9 Apocalipsis 5:13–14; Apocalipsis 7:11–12; Apocalipsis 10:6; Apocalipsis 15:7; Salmo 47:8
- 10 Apocalipsis 5:8; Salmo 95:6; Apocalipsis 19:4; Apocalipsis 11:16; 1 Crónicas 29:11–16
- 11 Colosenses 1:16–17; Apocalipsis 5:12; Isaías 40:28; Proverbios 16:4; Juan 1:1–3
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For, [as the Scripture] says, "The first living creature was like a lion," symbolizing His effectual working, His leadership, and royal power; the second [living creature] was like a calf, signifying [His] sacrificial and sacerdotal order; but "the third had, as it were, the face as of a man,"--an evident description of His advent as a human being; "the fourth …