Revelation 6:3

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.

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Word by word — the Greek

Word	Greek	Strong’s	Meaning
And	Καὶ Kai	G2532	and · conjunction
when	ὅτε hote	G3753	at which (thing) too · conjunction
opened	ἤνοιξεν ēnoixen	G455	to open up (literally or figuratively · verb — second aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular
second	δευτέραν, deuteran	G1208	(ordinal) second (in time · adjective — accusative singular feminine
seal	σφραγῖδα sphragida	G4973	a signet (as fencing in or protecting from misappropria… · noun — accusative singular feminine
heard	ἤκουσα ēkousa	G191	to hear (in various senses) · verb — aorist active indicative, 1st person singular
second	δευτέρου deuterou	G1208	(ordinal) second (in time · adjective — genitive singular neuter
beast	ζῴου zōou	G2226	a live thing · noun — genitive singular neuter
say	λέγοντος· legontos	G3004	properly · verb — present active participle, genitive singular neuter
Come	ἔρχου erchou	G2064	to come or go (in a great variety of applications · verb — present middle or passive deponent imperative, 2nd person singular
and	καὶ kai	G2532	and · conjunction
see	βλέπε. blepe	G991	to look at (literally or figuratively) · verb — present active imperative, 2nd person singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

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 lik…
Revelation 6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Revelation 6:3-8

The next three seals give us a sad prospect of great and desolating judgments with which God punishes those who either refuse or abuse the everlasting gospel. Though some understand them of the persecutions that befell the church of Christ, and others of the destruction of the Jews, they rather seem more generally to represent God's terrible judgments, by which he avenges the quarrel of his covenant upon those who make light of it. I. Upon opening the second seal, to which John was called to attend, another horse appears, of a different colour from the former, a red horse, Rev 6:4. This signifies the desolating judgment of war; he that sat upon this red horse had power to take peace from the…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Revelation 6:3

and see--omitted in the three oldest manuscripts, A, B, C, and Vulgate.

Adam Clarke on Revelation 6:3

The second beast - That which had the face of an ox.

John Gill on Revelation 6:3

And when he had opened the second seal,.... Of the sealed book; that is, the Lamb, as before: I heard the second beast say, come and see; this living creature was the ox, whose situation was on the west side of the throne, as the standard of Ephraim, on which was an ox, was on the west of the camp of Israel; no mention is made of the noise of thunder, as before, the voice of the ox being lower than that of the lion; and this perhaps may point out a decrease in the Gospel ministry; to fix on any particular person, as, with Grotius, the Evangelist Matthew, because he says, Matthew 24:7, nation shall rise against nation, which carries in it some likeness to what is said at the opening of this…

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Tyndale Open Study Notes on Revelation 6:3-4

The Church Fathers

I suppose that the second living creature is the bull to depict the sacred sacrifices of the holy martyrs, since the first [creature] signified the apostolic authority.
— Andreas of Caesarea, COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 6:3

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature, etc. We are also commanded to diligently observe the opposing cavalry, so that just as joy is taken from the Church's successes, caution is taken from foreknowledge of adversities.
— Bede, Commentary on Revelation

And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature, saying: Come, and see. What does it mean that a similar command is given in a dissimilar situation, if not that concern for the future struggle is here given in the same way as joy for the achieved victory was above?
— Alcuin of York, COMMENTARY ON REVELATION

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Dictionary and topics

Horse · SYMBOLI — SYMBOLI

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).