4 And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
5 And one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not:
behold, the aLion of the tribe of
bJuda, the cRoot of
Davida, hath prevailed to open the
book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
6 And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne
and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a
aLamb as it had been slain, bhaving seven
horns and seven eyes, which are the seven Spirits of God sent forth into all
the earth.
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5a the Lion of the tribe of Juda, the
Root of David Particularly being revealed to a Jew, as John was,
Jesus Christ would best be represented to be and stated to be 'the Lion of
the tribe of Judah' and to be of the promised seed or 'Root of David'. And
is particular true of Jesus Christ as he was of the bloodline of Judah via
the surrogate Boaz and certainly the heir and seed of David. This from the
very Jewish perspective of the Jewish scriptures is who the Messiah was to
be. Yet this does not prevent Jesus to also be so hiden as the heir and
seed of Joseph and Ephraim, even Messiah ben Joseph (see:
Messiah ben David ~ Messiah ben Joseph).
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