Revelation 1:5b-6

Revelation 1:5b-6

Τῷ ἀγαπῶντι ἡμᾶς καὶ λύσαντι ἡμᾶς ἐκ τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν ἡμῶν ἐν τῷ αἵματι αὐτοῦ— 6 καὶ ἐποίησεν ἡμᾶς βασιλείαν, ἱερεῖς τῷ θεῷ καὶ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ— αὐτῷ ἡ δόξα καὶ τὸ κράτος εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας τῶν αἰώνων· ἀμήν.

To the one who loves us and freed us from our sin by his blood (6)—and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father—to him (be) glory and might forever and ever; amen.

Parsing

Term	Tense	Voice	Mood	Person/ Case	Gender/ Number	Lexical Form
ἀγαπῶντι	Pres	Act	Part	Dat	Masc/Sing	ἀγαπαω
λύσαντι	Aor	Act	Part	Dat	Masc/Sing	λυω
ἐποίησεν	Aor	Act	Ind	3rd	Sing	ποιεω

Lexical and Syntactic Notes

• Τῷ ἀγαπῶντι – Dative of possession in doxology (Matthewson, 5)
• αἵματι metonymy for death (Matthewson, 6)
• It is unusual to have indicative verb ἐποίησεν when one would expect another participle. Most take it to be a parenthetical phrase (as is translated with m-dash above; Matthewson, 6)
• ἡμᾶς βασιλείαν – double accusative (Plummer, vid 2)
• ἱερεῖς is stated in apposition to kingdom to explain exactly what that kingdom is (Plummer, vid 2)