启示录 5:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

在天上、地上、地底下，沒有一個能夠展開書卷觀看的。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
在 天 上 、 地 上 、 地 底 下 ， 没 有 能 展 开 、 能 观 看 那 书 卷 的 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Then I saw a scroll in the right hand of the One sitting on the throne. The scroll had writing on both sides and was kept closed with seven seals. ² And I saw a powerful angel calling in a loud voice, "Who is worthy to break the seals and open the scroll?" ³ But there was no one in heaven or on earth or under the earth who could open the scroll or look inside it. ⁴ I cried bitterly because there was no one who was worthy to open the scroll or look inside. ⁵ But one of the elders said to me, "Do not cry! The Lion from the tribe of Judah, David's descendant, has won the victory so that he is able to open the scroll and its seven seals."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Revelation 5:13, Isaiah 40:13, Isaiah 40:14, Isaiah 41:28, Romans 11:34

Reciprocal: Exodus 37:10 - General Job 41:15 - a close Revelation 3:7 - he that openeth Revelation 5:9 - Thou art

Cross-References

Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."

Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and on that day he blessed them and named them human beings.

Genesis 5:3
When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of another son in his likeness and image, and Adam named him Seth.

Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:16
After Jared was born, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

Job 14:4
No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

Job 25:4
So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Psalms 51:5
I was brought into this world in sin. In sin my mother gave birth to me.

Luke 1:35
The angel said to Mary, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you. For this reason the baby will be holy and will be called the Son of God.

John 3:6
Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the Spirit.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And no man in heaven,.... Or "no one in heaven", whether angels, or the souls of departed saints; neither the one nor the other know anything of what is to come, until it is revealed unto them:

nor in earth: among all the men on earth, even those of the greatest sagacity and penetration, the wise, the prudent, the scribe, the disputer of this world, such who are most conversant with books, and have the greatest reach into the things of nature, or of grace:

neither under the earth; the dead buried there, good or bad; which may be said agreeably to the notions of the ancient Jews, who believed the immortality of souls, and that they were rewarded or punished, υπο χθονος, "under the earth", according to their virtue or vice in life d: or the devils in hell; or whoever on the earth are influenced by them, as magicians, sorcerers, soothsayers, and necromancers:

was able to open the book, neither to look thereon; or in it, so as to read it, understand it, and show to John what was in it; for the sense is, there was no creature in heaven, earth, or hell, who were masters of the deepest knowledge, and made pretensions to any, that were able to foresee and foretell things to come; or to exhibit the prophecies in this book, and represent them to John in the manner they afterwards were, and much less to accomplish them.

d Joseph. Antiqu. l. 18. c. 1. sect 3.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And no man in heaven - No one - οὐδεὶς oudeis. There is no limitation in the original to man. The idea is, that there was no one in heaven - evidently alluding to the created beings there - who could open the volume. Is it not taught here that angels cannot penetrate the future, and disclose what is to come? Are not their faculties limited in this respect like those of man?

Nor in earth - Among all classes of people - sages, divines, prophets, philosophers - who among those have ever been able to penetrate the future, and disclose what is to come?

Neither under the earth - These divisions compose, in common language, the universe: what is in heaven above; what is on the earth; and whatever there is under the earth - the abodes of the dead. May there not be an allusion here to the supposed science of necromancy, and an assertion that even the dead cannot penetrate the future, and disclose what is to come? Compare the notes on Isaiah 8:19. In all these great realms no one advanced who was qualified to undertake the office of making a disclosure of what the mysterious scroll might contain.

Was able to open the book - Had ability - ἠδύνατε ēdunate - to do it. It was a task beyond their power. Even if anyone had been found who had a rank and a moral character which might have seemed to justify the effort, there was no one who had the power of reading what was recorded respecting coming events.

Neither to look thereon - That is, so to open the seals as to have a view of what was written therein. That it was not beyond their power merely to see the book is apparent from the fact that John himself saw it in the hand of him that sat on the throne; and it is evident also Revelation 5:5 that in that sense the elders saw it. But no one could prevail to inspect the contents, or so have access to the interior of the volume as to be able to see what was written there. It could be seen, indeed Revelation 5:1, that it was written on both sides of the parchment, but what the writing was no one could know.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 5:3. And no man — ουδεις No person or being.

In heaven — Among all the angels of God.

Nor in the earth — No human being.

Neither under the earth — No disembodied spirit, nor any demon. Neither angels, men, nor devils, can fathom the decrees of God.

Neither to look thereon. — None can look into it unless it be opened, and none can open it unless the seals be unloosed.