John Trapp on Revelation 1:6
Commentary or Exposition. Browse this work.
Read Revelation 1. Compare commentaries on this chapter.
Source and publication rights
Text Creation Partnership. Public domain; TCP unrestricted text and encoding. Source edition.
Berean Blue opens December 1, 2026. Explore this passage in the app preview.
Revelation1:6
Verſe 6. And hath made us Kings] To rule in righteouſneſſe. to lord it over our luſts, to triumph over, and trample on all our ſpirituall adverſaries, being more then conquerours thorow him that loved us, and laid down his life for us, that we might raign in life by one Jeſus Chriſt, Rom. 5.17. And ſurely if (as Peter Martyr once wrote to Q. Elizabeth) Kings are doubly bound to ſerve God, both as men, and as Kings: What are we, for this ſpirituall kingdome?Judg 5.28.
And Priests u[illegible: 1 letter]to God] To offer up to him the perſonall ſaer fice of our ſelves, Rom. 12.1. the verball of praiſe, [non-Latin text not transcribed] and reall of alms. Heb. 1.15, 16. See the Note on 1 Pet. 29.
John Trapp, Commentary or Exposition, Revelation 1:6. Public domain.
Permanent link. Source edition.