{ "apiVersion": "v1", "kind": "Chapter", "metadata": { "generated": "2026-11-01T13:37:55Z", "language": "en", "book": "revelation-woh", "chapter": 7 }, "data": { "n": 7, "bookSlug": "revelation-woh", "bookCode": "REV-WOH", "refId": "", "title": "Revelation 7 — The sealing of the servants: 144,000 + the great multitude", "translation": {"track":"translation","version":"1.0.0","sourceText":"Koine Greek New Testament — SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT), ed. Michael W. Holmes (Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software, 2010), printed text with the variant-marker sigla removed. Primary uncial witnesses for Revelation: Codex Sinaiticus (א/01) and Codex Alexandrinus (A/02), with Ephraemi Rescriptus (C/04) and P47/P115 where extant; Codex Vaticanus (B/03) does not contain Revelation in its original hand. Variants against NA28 and the Byzantine/Textus Receptus tradition are reported in the verse commentary (overlay convention sblgnt-base-text-variant-reporting-convention-revelation).","sourceLicense":"CC BY 4.0 (SBLGNT, Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software)","sourceUrl":"https://github.com/LogosBible/SBLGNT (data/sblgnt/text/Rev.txt)","sourceAccessedVia":"SBLGNT GitHub repository (LogosBible/SBLGNT), fetched 2026-11-01 into source-grc-7.json; reference translation ASV 1901 (hosted edition data-library/revelation/chapter-7.json), KJV for Textus Receptus comparison","verificationStatus":"editor pass complete (2026-11-01); Reviewer pass complete 2026-11-01 (reviewer-approved); pending founder sign-off; central glossary 2.81.0 pending application of wave-r2-central-diff.json","glossaryVersion":"2.81.0","overlayGlossaryVersion":"1.2.0","modelDrafts":["claude-opus-5-5 (translator)","claude-opus-5-5 (editor)"],"reviewer":"zarazinsfuss","reviewedAt":"2026-11-01T14:00:00Z","status":"stable","reviewerReport":{"reviewer":"claude-opus-5-5 acting as woh-reviewer","reviewedAt":"2026-11-01T12:25:02Z","verdicts":[{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:1","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed: meta touto eidon ... hestōtas epi tas tessaras gōnias tēs gēs, kratountas ... hina mē pneē anemos. Literal and exact; Enochic cosmography correctly kept as background only."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:2","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG s.v. theos"],"reasoning":"anabainonta apo anatolēs hēliou 'ascending from the rising of the sun'; sphragida theou zōntos 'the seal of the living God'; resumptive hois ... autois correctly noted as unreproducible. theos 'God' per overlay and chapters 1, 4, 6."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:3","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG s.v. doulos","LWTE ch. 2 (FR 'les esclaves de notre Dieu'; EN 'the servants of our God')"],"reasoning":"achri sphragisōmen tous doulous tou theou hēmōn epi tōn metōpōn 'until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads' is exact. 'servants' (God as master) is the standard rendering and agrees with the canon's English edition; the French 'esclaves' is recorded. Reception note verified against LWTE-2:156-158 and confined to the labelled paragraph; no leakage."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:4","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"hekaton tesserakonta tessares chiliades, esphragismenoi ek pasēs phylēs huiōn Israēl. 'sons of Israel' keeps huioi; standard English 'Israel' per the Greek-NT names convention (Hebrew-scoped shivtei-yisrael entry correctly left as background)."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:5","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Iouda, Rhoubēn, Gad, each dōdeka chiliades; esphragismenoi rendered 'were sealed'. Exact."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:6","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Asēr, Nephthalim, Manassē. Exact; note on Manasseh beside Joseph is accurate."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:7","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Symeōn, Leui, Issachar. Exact."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:8","status":"approve","citations":["Irenaeus, Haer. 5.30.2","Bauckham, The Climax of Prophecy (1993)"],"reasoning":"Zaboulōn, Iōsēph, Beniamin ... esphragismenoi. Exact. Irenaeus Haer. 5.30.2 on Dan and Jer 8:16 is correctly cited."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:9","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Re-parsed the hestōtes (nom.) / peribeblēmenous (acc.) irregularity and the resumptive auton; 'which no one could number', 'clothed in white robes, with palm branches' is exact and the irregularity is noted."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:10","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Hē sōtēria tō theō hēmōn ... kai tō arniō: verbless acclamation kept as 'Salvation to our God ... and to the Lamb!'. Defensible (ASV 'unto'); 'belongs to' is noted as the sense."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:11","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"pantes hoi angeloi heistēkeisan kyklō tou thronou ... epesan ... epi ta prosōpa autōn kai prosekynēsan tō theō. Exact; 'four living creatures' matches 4:6-8."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:12","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"Sevenfold doxology framed by Amēn; order eulogia, doxa, sophia, eucharistia, timē, dynamis, ischys preserved. dynamis 'power', ischys 'might'. Exact."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:13","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"apekrithē ... legōn moi; Houtoi hoi peribeblēmenoi ... tines eisin kai pothen ēlthon. Exact; Septuagintal idiom noted."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:14","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"eirēka autō; Kyrie mou, sy oidas; hoi erchomenoi ek tēs thlipseōs tēs megalēs; eplynan ... eleukanan ... en tō haimati tou arniou. Present participle kept; lower-case 'lord' for an address to the elder is correct."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:15","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG s.v. skēnoō","Isa 4:5-6"],"reasoning":"skēnōsei ep' autous 'will spread his tabernacle over them' (ASV) keeps epi + accusative and the tabernacle noun-verb link; RSV's 'shelter them with his presence' is correctly labelled as interpretive. Disputed only against RSV/NRSV; the ASV wording is a defensible literal rendering."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:16","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"ou peinasousin eti oude dipsēsousin eti, oude mē pesē ep' autous ho hēlios oude pan kauma. Exact; Isa 49:10 LXX allusion correct."},{"refId":"REV-WOH-7:17","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"to arnion to ana meson tou thronou poimanei autous ... hodēgēsei autous epi zōēs pēgas hydatōn; exaleipsei ho theos pan dakryon. 'be their shepherd' is the pastoral sense the Isa 49:10 context requires; zōēs fronted is rendered 'springs of the waters of life'. Exact."}],"glossaryReview":[{"glossary_id":"theos-god-rendering-against-canon-english-yahweh-revelation","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG s.v. theos","LXX usage: kyrios for the Tetragrammaton, theos for ʾĕlōhîm","LWTE ch. 2 (FR 'Dieu' at 9:13, 21:2-4)"],"reasoning":"Direct is correct: theos never renders the Tetragrammaton in the LXX or NT, the canon's French reads 'Dieu' at every site, and published chapters 1, 4, 6 use 'God'. The canon's English 'Yahweh'/'Elohim' is recorded in reception notes without entering the line."},{"glossary_id":"greek-nt-proper-names-and-hebrew-scoped-entries-convention-revelation","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG s.vv. diabolos, Satanas, Abaddōn, Harmagedōn","Aune, WBC 52B, ad loc. 12:9"],"reasoning":"Direct is correct for a presentation and scope convention. Recommendation (non-blocking): state the scope criterion explicitly. Hebrew-text central entries are applied to a Greek line when their English choice is also a correct rendering of the Greek lexeme (chayyot 'living creatures' at 7:11; gophrit 'sulfur' for theion). They are background only where applying them would import a Hebrew-specific form or sense (Yisra'el, 'the adversary', 'the deep'). Without that sentence the 7:11 chayyot ref and the gophrit extension look like exceptions to rule (4)."},{"glossary_id":"doulos-servant-slave-rendering-revelation","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG s.v. doulos","Amos 3:7; 2 Kgs 17:23 (ʿeḇeḏ 'servants the prophets')"],"reasoning":"Direct is defensible: both senses are lexical and the context split (divine master vs free/slave pair) is the ASV/RSV/NRSV practice and the 1:1/6:15 precedent. The canon's French 'esclaves' is honestly recorded."},{"glossary_id":"skene-skenoo-tabernacle-dwell-rendering-revelation","status":"approve","citations":["BDAG s.vv. skēnē, skēnoō","Lev 26:11-12; Ezek 37:27"],"reasoning":"Direct is defensible: 'tabernacle' keeps the Lev 26/Ezek 37 allusion at 21:3, 'dwell' is universal for the verb, and the 7:15 ASV exception is grammatically motivated by epi + accusative."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:version-2.80.0-to-2.81.0","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"2.80.0 to 2.81.0 minor bump is correct: 12 appliesTo extensions, no wohChoice change. Every op was checked against 2.80.0: each changes.appliesTo is a complete superset of the base array, and the computed additions equal the declared appliesToAdded. The concurrency instruction (union-merge with the ezekiel-woh diff, renumber if it lands first) is sound."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:four-living-creatures-rev-4-6-8-ezek-1-chayyot-shiur-qomah-cross-corpus","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"+REV-WOH-7:11 'the four living creatures', same phrase as 4:6-8 / 6:1-7."},{"glossary_id":"central-diff:chayyot","status":"approve","citations":[],"reasoning":"+REV-WOH-7:11, matching the existing Rev 4/6 refIds. Union-merge with the ezekiel-woh diff."}],"lens-leakage-flags":[],"lensLeakageCheck":"Every English line was checked: all 146 lines, and specifically the 21 reception-note sites (7:3, 8:1, 8:7, 8:8, 8:10, 8:12, 9:1, 9:5, 9:9, 9:13, 9:18, 10:4, 10:7, 12:12, 13:18, 16:18, 16:20, 16:21, 21:1, 21:2, 21:3). A script found no Elohim, Yahweh, YHWH, craft, missile, atomic, nuclear, planet, Eternals, loudspeaker or similar lens vocabulary in any line. The only hits were 'ship(s)' (8:9 ploia; worship) and 'Israel' (substring 'rael'), both benign. Each Wheel of Heaven reading sits in its own headed paragraph labelled 'reception note, not a translation claim'. Each was verified against LWTE ch. 2 (LWTE-2:155-228), FR and EN. No line resolves an ambiguity in the canon's direction: the visionary hōs/homoios markers are kept (8:8; 9:7-10), 'the number of a man' stays open (13:18), 'breastplates' is used rather than the canon's French 'thorax' (9:9), 'pit of the abyss' is kept (9:1), and theos is 'God' where the canon's English has 'Yahweh'/'Elohim' (9:13; 21:2-4). Where the line and the canon's English diverge, the line follows the Greek critical text, and at 8:7 that text agrees with the canon's French.","escalationReportAdjustments":"Initial verdicts on all 146 verses, the 10 overlay entries touched and the 13 diff ops were formed from the chapters, the SBLGNT sources (including the sigla-bearing Rev.txt in the scratchpad), the overlay, the diff and the 2.80.0 base before opening wave-r2-editor-report.md. After reading the report, no verdict changed. The report's Founder point C lists the KJV-wording variants named in commentary (8:7, 9:13, 10:4, 21:2, 21:3 'his people ... their God', 21:4). It omits 21:3 'out of heaven', which confirms the reviewer's 21:3 revise. Its 9:13 request ('the Reviewer should verify this against the NA28 apparatus') was met as far as possible: the SBLGNT marker confirms a collated edition reads tessarōn, and the corrected attribution agrees with the reviewer's reading of Metzger. The printed NA28 apparatus was not available, so this is recorded as unverified at the sigla level, not as a defect. The report's 'All other lines are the Translator's draft, unchanged' was confirmed by diffing against the rev_r2 backup: only 16:3 and 16:9 differ.","founderDecisionRecommendations":{"A-theion-sulfur":"Endorse. LXX theion = gophrit (Gen 19:24), BDAG 'sulfur', NRSV 'sulfur' at all four sites; the central entry already renders the Revelation lake passages 'sulfur'. The canon's English 'brimstone' (9:18) is recorded.","B-theos-God-not-Yahweh-Elohim":"Endorse firmly. theos does not render the Tetragrammaton, the canon's own French has 'Dieu', and chapters 1, 4, 6 are signed off with 'God'. Writing 'Yahweh' would translate the canon's English edition, not the Greek.","C-critical-text-over-KJV-wording":"Endorse. Complete the inventory: add 21:3 'out of heaven' (TR ek tou ouranou) and 16:18 (NA28 singular; TR order 'voices, thunders, lightnings'); correct 8:7 to say the omission is a TR reading, not the Byzantine majority's. Optionally name 16:3 zōsa and 21:4 hoti.","D-names-and-scope-rule":"Endorse, and support promotion to a central Greek-NT convention. Add the explicit criterion (apply where the central English is also a correct rendering of the Greek lexeme; background where it imports a Hebrew-specific form), which explains chayyot at 7:11 and gophrit for theion.","E-exousia":"Endorse. The context rule follows BDAG's sense division and RSV/NRSV practice; 16:9 'authority over' aligns with 6:8 and 13:7. Uniform 'authority' would read badly at 9:10, 19.","F-16:3-living-being":"Endorse. 'soul' for sea creatures imports a personal sense; 'living being' keeps the noun and the nep̄eš ḥayyâ echo.","G-doulos-servants":"Endorse. Keeps the signed-off 1:1/6:11 and the canon's English 'servants'; the French 'esclaves' is recorded.","H-pit-of-the-abyss":"Endorse. ASV structure; matches the canon's French 'le puits de l'abîme'.","I-Har-magedon":"Endorse. ASV form, follows the SBLGNT/NA28 rough breathing, keeps har visible without deciding the etymology.","J-12:18-versification":"Endorse. P47, Sinaiticus and Alexandrinus read estathē, and SBLGNT/NA28 number it 12:18 (Metzger on 12:18). The ASV 13:1a alignment is a tooling task (orchestrator follow-up 2), not a translation issue."},"summary":"17 verdicts: 17 approve. No revise or flag. Reception note at 7:3 verified."}}, "segments": [], "lines": [], "paragraphs": [{ "n": 1, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:1", "text": "After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth, so that no wind should blow on the earth or on the sea or upon any tree." },{ "n": 2, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:2", "text": "And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God; and he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it had been given to harm the earth and the sea," },{ "n": 3, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:3", "text": "saying: \"Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.\"" },{ "n": 4, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:4", "text": "And I heard the number of those who were sealed, a hundred and forty-four thousand, sealed out of every tribe of the sons of Israel:" },{ "n": 5, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:5", "text": "from the tribe of Judah twelve thousand were sealed, from the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand, from the tribe of Gad twelve thousand," },{ "n": 6, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:6", "text": "from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand," },{ "n": 7, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:7", "text": "from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand," },{ "n": 8, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:8", "text": "from the tribe of Zebulun twelve thousand, from the tribe of Joseph twelve thousand, from the tribe of Benjamin twelve thousand were sealed." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:9", "text": "After these things I looked, and behold, a great multitude, which no one could number, from every nation and from all tribes and peoples and tongues, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands;" },{ "n": 10, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:10", "text": "and they cry out with a loud voice, saying: \"Salvation to our God who is seated on the throne, and to the Lamb!\"" },{ "n": 11, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:11", "text": "And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God," },{ "n": 12, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:12", "text": "saying: \"Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever. Amen.\"" },{ "n": 13, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:13", "text": "And one of the elders answered, saying to me: \"These who are clothed in the white robes, who are they, and where have they come from?\"" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:14", "text": "And I said to him: \"My lord, you know.\" And he said to me: \"These are the ones who come out of the great tribulation; they have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:15", "text": "Therefore they are before the throne of God, and they serve him day and night in his temple; and the one seated on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them." },{ "n": 16, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:16", "text": "They will hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor will the sun strike them, nor any scorching heat," },{ "n": 17, "refId": "REV-WOH-7:17", "text": "for the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the waters of life; and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.\"" } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/revelation-woh/chapters/7", "book": "/v1/library/books/revelation-woh/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/revelation-woh/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }