“The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.”
As for the mystery of the seven stars that you saw in my right hand, and the seven golden lampstands, the seven stars are the angels of the seven churches, and the seven lampstands are the seven churches — the interpretive key clarifies the symbolic register: stars represent angelic guardians or representatives of each church, and lampstands represent the churches themselves. The mystery (mystērion) language indicates a divinely unveiled secret.
Church Fathers on Revelation 1:20
“And in His face was brightness as the sun.” That which He called brightness was the appearance of that in which He spoke to men face to face. But the glory of the sun is less than the glory of the Lord. Doubtless on account of its rising and setting, and rising again, that He was born and suffered and rose again, therefore the Scripture gave this similitude, likening His face to the glory of the sun. “And out of His mouth was issuing a sharp two-edged sword.” By the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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