Rev 1:15 | RWP | e4.org | Burnished brass ( χαλκολιβανω ). Associative-instrumental case after ομοιο . This word has so far been found nowhere else save here and . Suidas defines it as an ηλεχκτρον (amber) or a compound of copper and gold and silver ( aurichalcum in the Latin Vulgate). It is in reality an unknown metal. As if it had been refined ( ως πεπυρομενης ). Perfect passive participle of πυροω , old verb, to set on fire, to glow, as in ; . The feminine gender shows that η χαλκολιβανος is referred to with της χαλκολιβανου understood, for it does not agree in case with the associative-instrumental χαλκολιβανω just before. Some would call it a slip for πεπυρομενω as Aleph, and some cursives have it (taking χαλκολιβανω to be neuter, not feminine). But P Q read πεπυρωμενο (masculine plural), a correction, making it agree in number and gender with ποδες (feet). In a furnace ( εν καμινω ). Old word, in N.T. also ; , . As the voice of many waters ( ως φωνη υδατων πολλων ). So the voice of God in the Hebrew (not the LXX) of . Repeated in ; .

‏ Revelation of John 1:15

Burnished brass ( χαλκολιβανω ). Associative-instrumental case after ομοιο. This word has so far been found nowhere else save here and 2:18. Suidas defines it as an ηλεχκτρον (amber) or a compound of copper and gold and silver (aurichalcum in the Latin Vulgate). It is in reality an unknown metal.

As if it had been refined ( ως πεπυρομενης ). Perfect passive participle of πυροω, old verb, to set on fire, to glow, as in Eph 6:16; Re 3:18. The feminine gender shows that η χαλκολιβανος is referred to with της χαλκολιβανου understood, for it does not agree in case with the associative-instrumental χαλκολιβανω just before. Some would call it a slip for πεπυρομενω as Aleph, and some cursives have it (taking χαλκολιβανω to be neuter, not feminine). But P Q read πεπυρωμενο (masculine plural), a correction, making it agree in number and gender with ποδες (feet).

In a furnace ( εν καμινω ). Old word, in N.T. also 9:2; Mt 13:42, 50.

As the voice of many waters ( ως φωνη υδατων πολλων ). So the voice of God in the Hebrew (not the LXX) of Eze 43:2. Repeated in 14:2; 19:6.