الرؤيا ٥:١٤

said--So A, Vulgate, and Syriac read. But B and Coptic read, "(I heard) saying." Amen--So A reads. But B reads, "the (accustomed) Amen." As in Rev 4:11, the four and twenty elders asserted God's worthiness to receive the glory, as having created all things, so here the four living creatures ratify by their "Amen" the whole creation's ascription of the glory to Him. four and twenty--omitted in the oldest manuscripts: Vulgate supports it. him that liveth for ever and ever--omitted in all the manuscripts: inserted by commentators from Rev 4:9. But there, where the thanksgiving is expressed, the words are appropriate; but here less so, as their worship is that of silent prostration. "Worshipped" (namely, God and the Lamb). So in Rev 11:1, "worship" is used absolutely. Next: Revelation Chapter 6

In the foregoing chapter the prophetical scene was opened, in the sight and hearing of the apostle, and he had a sight of God the Creator and ruler of the world, and the great King of the church. He saw God on the throne of glory and government, surrounded with his holy ones, and receiving their adorations. Now the counsels and decrees of God are set before the apostle, as in a book, which God held in his right hand; and this book is represented, I. As sealed in the hand of God (Rev 5:1-9). II. As taken into the hand of Christ the Redeemer, to be unsealed and opened (Rev 5:6 to the end).

5:14 The dramatic introduction of the Lamb (5:1-14) closes with the living beings (4:6-9). Their Amen affirms the truth of what John had seen, as the twenty-four elders prostrate themselves in worship.