“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.
Church Fathers on Revelation 11:17
“And their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt.” But He calls Jerusalem Sodom and Egypt, since it had become the heaping up of the persecuting people. Therefore it behooves us diligently, and with the utmost care, to follow the prophetic announcement, and to understand what the Spirit from the Father both announces and anticipates, and how, when He has gone forward to the last times, He again repeats the former…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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