Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
How long (ewv pote). "Until when." Cf. Matthew 7:17; John 10:24.
O Master (o despothv). Nominative articular form, but used as vocative (despota) as in Revelation 4:11 (John 20:28). On despothv (correlative of doulov) see Luke 2:29. Here (alone in the Apocalypse) it is applied to God as in Luke 2:29; Acts 4:24, but to Christ in Judges 1:4; 2 Peter 2:1.
The holy and true (o agiov kai alhqinov). See Revelation 3:7 for these attributes of God.
Avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth (ekdikeiv to aima hmwn ek twn katoikountwn epi thv ghv). This same idiom in Revelation 19:2 and see it also in Luke 18:7 f., "a passage which goes far to answer many questions in theodicy" (Swete). We find ekdikew, late compound, used with ek as here in Deuteronomy 18:19; 1 Samuel 24:13, but with apo in Luke 18:3. For epi thv ghv (upon the earth) see Revelation 3:10.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Acts 4:24
Revelation 3:7
Revelation 5:2
Revelation 7:10
Revelation 10:2
Revelation 10:6
Revelation 11:10
Revelation 19:2
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