Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsRevelation 5
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Read Revelation 5 in the BibleRevelation 5:10
A kingdom and priests.
To serve God and subdue vices and sins, is to reign or to be a king spiritually. ◦ Likewise to offer unto him the sacrifices of good works, is to be a priest after a sort: though neither the one nor the other in proper speech. See the Annotation before Chap. 1. v. 6.
- ◦ Spiritual kings and Priests.
Revelation 5:13
Every creature.
He meaneth the creatures in heaven, as Angels and Saints, the holy persons in earth, and those that were in Limbo, ◦ or be in Purgatory (for of the damned in hell he cannot speak in his case:) lastly, of the peoples in Islands (here called the sea) which the Prophets use often to name severally, when they foretell the spreading of Christ's glory through the world. as Esa. c. 49. Hear ye Islands and you people a far off. &c.
- ◦ Limbus Patrum and Purgatory.
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Revelation 5:8
The prayers of Saints.
Hereby it is plain that the Saints in heaven offer up the prayers of faithful and holy persons in earth (called here saints, and in Scripture often) unto Christ. ◦ And among so many divine & unsearchable mysteries set down without exposition, it pleased God yet, that the Apostle himself should open this one point unto us, that these odours be the lauds and prayers of the faithful, ascending and offered up to God as incense, by the Saints in heaven. That so the Protestants may have no excuse of their error. That the Saints have no knowledge of our affairs or desires.