Revelation 4:7
And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
KJV
καὶ τὸ ζῷον τὸ πρῶτον ὅμοιον λέοντι, καὶ τὸ δεύτερον ζῷον ὅμοιον μόσχῳ, καὶ τὸ τρίτον ζῷον ἔχων τὸ πρόσωπον ὡς ἀνθρώπου, καὶ τὸ τέταρτον ζῷον ὅμοιον ἀετῷ πετομένῳ.
Greek NT
Et animal primum simile leoni, et secundum animal simile vitulo, et tertium animal habens faciem quasi hominis, et quartum animal simile aquilæ volanti.
Vulgate
And the first creature was like a lion, and the second creature like a calf, and the third creature had a face as of a man, and the fourth creature was like a flying eagle.
ASV
And the first living creature was like a lion: and the second living creature like a calf: and the third living creature, having the face, as it were, of a man: and the fourth living creature was like an eagle flying.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
16 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Intertextual echoes
This verse quotes or alludes to 1 earlier text.
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Ezek 1:5 · allusion"Also out of the midst thereof came the likeness of four living creatures. And this was their appearance; they had the likeness of a man."Ezekiel: four living creatures — lion, ox, man, eagle around the throne
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἔχων — SBLGNT
- ἔχων — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἔχον — Robinson-Pierpont
- τὸ πρόσωπον ὡς — SBLGNT
- τὸ πρόσωπον ὡς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- πρόσωπον — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§662"and I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all men to myself."541 The lifting up of Jesus on the cross signifies and announces his lifting up by his Ascension into heaven, and indeed begins it. Jesus Christ, the one priest of the new and eternal Covenant, "entered, not into a sanctuary made by human hands. . . but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of …
Proofs in continuation, extracted from St. John's Gospel. The Gospels are four in number, neither more nor less. Mystic reasons for this. 1. John, the disciple of the Lord, preaches this faith, and seeks, by the proclamation of the Gospel, to remove that error which by Cerinthus had been disseminated among men, and a long time previously by those termed Nicolaitans, who are an …
Cross-references
- 2Chr 4:3 — And under it was the similitude of oxen, which did compass it round about: ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about. Two rows of oxen were cast, when it was cast.
- Dan 7:4 — The first was like a lion, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given
- Ezek 1:8 — And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
- Ezek 1:10 — As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an
- Ezek 1:10 — As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an
- Ezek 1:15 — Now as I beheld the living creatures, behold one wheel upon the earth by the living creatures, with his four faces.
- Ezek 10:14 — And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
- Ezek 10:14 — And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.
- Ezek 10:21 — Every one had four faces apiece, and every one four wings; and the likeness of the hands of a man was under their wings.
- Isa 40:31 — But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
- Rev 4:6 — And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.
- Rev 6:3 — And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
- Rev 6:7 — And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.