Revelation 5:12 · World English Bible
Revelation 5:12 Meaning Saying with a Loud Voice
saying with a loud voice, “Worthy is the Lamb who has been killed to receive the power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory, and blessing!”
What does Revelation 5:12 mean?
The Lamb that was slain is the innocent, unresisting principle within, the gentle self that submits to the cutting away of the lower nature and by that surrender becomes fit to hold everything. 7 qualities are named over it, and the number 7 is the full round of completion, the whole of what can be received gathered into one, so the sacrificed innocence is crowned with the entire spectrum of inner riches.
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The Lamb that was slain is the innocent, unresisting principle within, the gentle self that submits to the cutting away of the lower nature and by that surrender becomes fit to hold everything. 7 qualities are named over it, and the number 7 is the full round of completion, the whole of what can be received gathered into one, so the sacrificed innocence is crowned with the entire spectrum of inner riches. Power, wealth, wisdom, strength, honor, glory and blessing are not 7 separate prizes but the fullness of the perfected being flowing into what let itself be broken.
What is worthy is precisely what did not grasp. The part of a person that gives itself up without struggle is the part that inherits the whole, because only the surrendered self is large enough to contain the completed life.
The Lamb: the innocent, unresisting self within that submits to the slaying of the lower nature and is made fit to receive all 7 qualities: the number 7, the complete round, the fullness of inner riches gathered into one and given to the surrendered self
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Live Revelation 5:12 today
- Let go of one small thing you have been gripping today, the last word in an argument, a plan that is not working, a message you keep rereading. Put it down on purpose and feel how much room comes back.
- In a disagreement with someone close, give up winning. Ask what they need instead, and mean it, even if you were right.
- When something at work slips out of your control, stop pushing for a minute and ask what is actually still yours to do. Then do only that, without the fight against the rest.
What am I holding so tightly that my hands are too full to receive anything?
The same truth in other traditions
Tao Te Ching
The teaching says the soft overcomes the hard and water wears away stone. What does not grasp is what finally receives everything.
Buddhism
Clinging is named as the root of suffering, and release as the way through. The open hand holds more than the closed one.
Stoicism · Epictetus
Epictetus said to want things as they are rather than as you demand them to be. The one who stops insisting is the one who is finally at ease.
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