Revelation 4:11

11 “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you pleased.”

Revelation 4:11 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 4:11

Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory honour, and
power
The Alexandrian copy, and some others, the Complutensian edition, the Vulgate Latin version, and all the Oriental ones, read, "thou art worthy, O Lord, and our God, to receive"; that is, to receive the acknowledgment and ascription of glory, honour, and power; for otherwise God cannot be said to receive these from his creatures, than by their confessing and declaring that they belong unto him: and that for the reasons following,

for thou hast created all things;
the whole universe, the heavens, the earth, and sea, and all that in them are:

and for thy pleasure they are and were created;
God is the first cause, and the last end of all things; by his power they are made, and according to his will, and for his own glory, and therefore is worthy of such a doxology; see ( Proverbs 16:4 ) ( Romans 11:36 ) . What is here said is contrary to a notion imbibed by the Jews ^F26, that the world was not created but for the sake of the Israelites: and elsewhere ^F1 they say,

``the world was not created but for David; and one says for Moses; and Rabbi Jochanan says for the Messiah;''

which last is truest.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 Zohar in Exod. fol. 6. 3. & Tzeror Hammor, fol. 109. 1. & 161. 3.
F1 T. Bab. Sanhedrin, fol. 98. 2.

Revelation 4:11 In-Context

9 Whenever the living beings give glory and honor and thanks to the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever),

10 the twenty-four elders fall down and worship the one sitting on the throne (the one who lives forever and ever). And they lay their crowns before the throne and say,

11 “You are worthy, O Lord our God, to receive glory and honor and power. For you created all things, and they exist because you created what you pleased.”