New Daily Study Bible: The Revelation of John 1. William Barclay

      

      The New Daily Study Bible

      The Revelation of John

      Volume 1

      Published by

       SAINT ANDREW PRESS

       121 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 4YN

      © The William Barclay Estate, 1976, 2004

      First edition published in 1959 as The Daily Study Bible: The Revelation of John Revised edition published in 1976 This third edition fully revised and updated by Saint Andrew Press and published as The New Daily Study Bible: The Revelation of John in 2004

      The Scripture quotations contained herein are from The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, Anglicized Edition, copyright © 1989, 1995 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America, and are used by permission. All rights reserved.

      ISBN 0 7152 0795 4

       eISBN 978 0 8615 3652 8

      The right of William Barclay to be identified as author of this work has been asserted according to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

      British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library

      Cover design by McColl Productions Ltd, by courtesy of Saint Andrew Press

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       Printed in Great Britain by Creative Print & Design, Wales

      TO

      ALL THOSE READERS

      WHO BEGAN WITH ME

      AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS SERIES

      AND WHO HAVE PERSEVERED WITH ME

      TO THIS THE END

       CONTENTS

       Series Foreword (by Ronnie Barclay)

       General Introduction (by William Barclay, 1975)

       General Foreword (by John Drane)

       Editor’s Preface (by Linda Foster)

       Introduction to the Revelation of John

       God’s Revelation (1:1–3)

       The Means of God’s Revelation (1:1–3) (contd)

       Servants of God (1:1–3) (contd)

       Those who are Blessed (1:1–3) (contd)

       The Message and its Destination (1:4–6)

       The Blessing and its Source (1:4–6) (contd)

       The Sevenfold Spirit (1:4–6) (contd)

       The Titles of Jesus (1:4–6) (contd)

       What Jesus did for us (1:4–6) (contd)

       The Coming Glory (1:7)

       The God in whom we Trust (1:8)

       Through Tribulation to the Kingdom (1:9)

       The Island of Banishment (1:9) (contd)

       In the Spirit on the Lord’s Day (1:10–11)

       The Divine Messenger (1:12–13)

       The Picture of the Risen Christ (1:14–19)

       The Titles of the Risen Lord (1) (1:14–19) (contd)

       The Titles of the Risen Lord (2) (1:14–19) (contd)

       The Churches and their Angels (1:20)

       The Letter to Ephesus (2:1–7)

       Ephesus: First and Greatest (2:1–7) (contd)

       Ephesus: Christ and his Church (2:1–7) (contd)

       Ephesus: When Orthodoxy Costs too Much (2:1–7) (contd)

       Ephesus: The Steps on the Return Journey (2:1–7) (contd)

       Ephesus: A Ruinous Heresy (2:1–7) (contd)

       Ephesus: The Great Reward (2:1–7) (contd)

       The Letter to Smyrna (2:8–11)

       Smyrna: The Crown of Asia (2:8–11) (contd)

       Smyrna: Under Trial (2:8–11) (contd)

       Smyrna: The Cause of the Trouble (2:8–11) (contd)

       Smyrna: Christ’s Claim and Christ’s Demand (2:8–11) (contd)