Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
KJV
Greek original
Louis Segond 1910
Ils disaient d'une voix forte: L'agneau qui a été immolé est digne de recevoir la puissance, la richesse, la sagesse, la force, l'honneur, la gloire, et la louange.
KJV
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing.
Hincmar of Reims
Explanation on the Vessel of Solomon
im. This love, or rather our mercy, is what the Psalmist refers to, "My God, my mercy" (Psalms). In Revelation 5:6-14, the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world is depicted as the one who washes us from our sins in His blood. On the cross, in two verses, the same Lamb is por…
Thomas Aquinas
Summa Theologica
vine knowledge, i.e. the created would equal the uncreated, which is impossible. On the contrary, on Apoc. 5:12, "The Lamb that was slain is worthy to receive . . . divinity and wisdom," a gloss says, i.e. "the knowledge of all things." I answer that, When it is inquired whether…
Various
Patrologia Latina Vol. 119 (Migne)
cipere virtutem et divinitatem et sapientiam et fortitudinem et honorem et gloriam et benedictionem (Apoc. V, 9-12) . Post haec, inquit, vidi, et ecce multitudo magna, quam dinumerare nemo poterat ex omni gente et tribu et populo et lingua stantes ante thronum et in conspectu Agn…
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