Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
The four and twenty elders (oi eikosi tessarev presbuteroi). They follow the living creatures (verse Revelation 11:15, if correctly interpreted) in their adoration, as in Revelation 4:9 ff. Though seated on thrones of their own (Revelation 4:4), yet they fall upon their faces in every act of worship to God and Christ (Revelation 4:10; Revelation 5:8, Revelation 5:14; Revelation 19:4). Here epi ta proswpa autwn (upon their faces) is added as in Revelation 7:11 about the angels. The elders here again represent the redeemed, as the four living creatures the forces of nature, in the great thanksgiving here (euxaristoumen, present active indicative of euxaristew).
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Revelation 4:2
Revelation 4:4
Revelation 7:11
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