Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 5:10

10 And hast made us unto our God, kings and priests : and we shall reign on the earth .

The four living Creatures, and four and twenty Elders (by which are represented the Ministers and Members of the Church of Christ) go on in shewing why they had reason to proclaim Christ worthy to be the Prophet to his Church, to open the Counsels of God to them, viz. because of the great love he had shewed to them, not only in redeeming them with his Blood from the Guilt and Power of Sin, but in making them Kings and Priests, giving them the same Priviledges that the Jewish Church had, who were called a Royal Priesthood, Exod. 19.6. giving them a Power (as Priests) to offer up (not such bloody fleshly Sacrifices as they offered, but) spiritual Sacrifices, acceptable to God through the Beloved, 1 Pet. 2.5, 9. and also Kings to rule over their Lusts, and sensitive Appetite;

and to reign hereafter on the Earth, judging the World, 1 Cor. 6.3. at the great Day, with the great Iudge of the quick and the dead.

Marginal references: Chap. 1.6.