Revelation 20:5

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“The rest of the dead didn’t live until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.”

— WEB

“But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.”

— KJV

“The rest of the dead lived not until the thousand years should be finished. This is the first resurrection.”

— ASV

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Romans 11:15 "For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?"
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Commentary

But--B, Coptic, and ANDREAS read, "and." A and Vulgate omit it. again--A, B, Vulgate, Coptic, and ANDREAS omit it. "Lived" is used for lived again, as in Rev 2:8. John saw them not only when restored to life, but when in the act of reviving [BENGEL]. first resurrection--"the resurrection of the just." Earth is not yet transfigured, and cannot therefore be the meet locality for the transfigured Church; but from heaven the transfigured saints with Christ rule the earth, there being a much freer communion of the heavenly and earthly churches (a type of which state may be seen in the forty days of the risen Saviour during which He appeared to His disciples), and they know no higher joy than to lead their brethren on earth to the same salvation and glory as they share themselves. The millennial reign on earth does not rest on an isolated passage of the Apocalypse, but all Old Testament prophecy goes on the same view (compare Isa 4:3; Isa 11:9; Isa 35:8). Jesus, while opposing the carnal views of the kingdom of God prevalent among the Jews in His day, does not contradict, but confirms, the Old Testament view of a coming, earthly, Jewish kingdom of glory: beginning from within, and spreading itself now spiritually, the kingdom of God shall manifest itself outwardly at Christ's coming again. The papacy is a false anticipation of the kingdom during the Church-historical period.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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