By His angel.—The “angel” of Rev. 3:14 represented this messenger who appeared to St. John. Our Lord’s promise in Luke 12:44 is not limited to activities on this side the veil. Unto His servant John.—“This simplicity, common to all the Apostles, commends them to us as men of humble mind—the very kind we should expect our Lord to use as special messengers to His people.”—Z. ’16‐343; Rev. 19:10. 1:2. Who bare record.—Previously, In the Fourth Gospel, and in the three epistles bearing his name. Of the Word of God.—The Logos. St. John has had more to say of the Logos than had any other Apostle. “In olden times certain kings made addresses to their subjects by proxy, the king sitting behind a screen, while his word, or spokesman, stood before the screen, and addressed the people aloud on subjects whispered to him by the king, who was not seen, and such a speaker was termed the King’s _logos_.”—E. 94‐85. And of the testimony.—The daily words and deeds, during the three and a half years of His ministry. Of Jesus Christ.—“The Faithful and True Witness.”—Rev. 3:14. [And of all] WHAT things [that] SOEVER he saw.—St. John’s powers of observation were acute. His Gospel contains records of twenty‐two events or teachings not mentioned by the other Evangelists. 1:3. Blessed is he.—Singular. That readeth.—Correctly interprets the symbolisms. And they.—Plural. That hear the [words] WORD of this prophecy.—“All who have read and understood even a part of the teachings of the book were blessed as promised. It was an important aid to Luther in deciding that the Papacy, of which he was a conscientious minister, was ‘Antichrist’ ”—A. 27. And keep.—Keep the eyes upon, observe (so the Greek Indicates).—Rev. 22:7. Those things which are written therein.—“There is a blessing upon those who read this revelation, even though they do not understand, and a special blessing upon those who hear and understand the words of this prophecy, and who conform their lives to the things therein written.”—Z. ’16‐343. For the time is at hand.—The fulfilments began at once, in St. John’s own day. 1:4. John to the seven churches.—Not merely the seven literal congregations mentioned in Verse 11 and elsewhere, but to the epochs of the Church as a whole, from Apostolic days until now. Which are in Asia.—In the Orient, the East, the early path of the sun. Before the Sun of Righteousness can illuminate the world of mankind, its rays must first have passed through the Church, the first to greet and welcome the New Day. Grace be unto you.—May favor, unmerited, be your happy portion. And peace.—The Lord’s special legacy to His Church.—John 14:27. From Him.—Our glorified Lord and Head.—Rev. 1:8. Which is.—Now self‐existent, like the Father.—John 5:26. And which was.—The Logos, the Father’s Agent in the creation of all things (John 1:3), and subsequently, as man’s Redeemer, “made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death.”—Heb. 2:9.