“Saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God Almighty, which art, and wast, and art to come; because thou hast taken to thee thy great power, and hast reigned.”
Saying, 'We give you thanks, Lord God Almighty, the one who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign — the elders' thanksgiving (eucharisteo) addresses God as Pantokrator (Almighty), using the temporal formula (ho ōn...ho ēn, the one who is and was; the future is notably absent, indicating the eternal present of God's rule). God has taken (lambano) the great power (dynamis megale) and begun to reign (basileuō, inceptive aorist), inaugurating eschatological kingship.
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