Offenbarung 20:4
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Und ich sah Throne, und sie saßen darauf, und es wurde ihnen gegeben, Gericht zu halten; und die Seelen derer, welche um des Zeugnisses Jesu und um des Wortes Gottes willen enthauptet waren, und die, welche das Tier nicht angebetet hatten, noch sein Bild, und das Malzeichen nicht angenommen hatten an ihre Stirn und an ihre Hand, und sie lebten und herrschten mit dem Christus tausend Jahre.
Apocalypse Revealed #95
95. "'And tribulation, and poverty.'" This symbolically means that they are caught up in falsities and so are not engaged in good practices.
Knowing their tribulation means, symbolically, seeing that they are caught up in falsities, and knowing their poverty means, symbolically, seeing that they are not engaged in good practices. For tribulation in the Word is predicated of falsities, as in no. 33 above, while poverty is predicated of the absence of goods. That is what spiritual poverty is. The Word quite often speaks of the poor and needy, and in the spiritual sense a poor person means someone who is lacking in truths, and a needy person someone who is lacking in goods.
Added to the verse are also these words, "But you are rich," though in parentheses, and this because they are not found in some codices.
