SEV Biblia, Chapter 4:10
los veinticuatro ancianos se postraban delante del que estaba sentado en el trono, y adoraban al que vive para siempre jams; y echaban sus coronas delante del trono, diciendo:
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 4:10
Verse 10. Cast their crowns before the throne] Acknowledge the infinite supremacy of God, and that they have derived their being and their blessings from him alone. This is an allusion to the custom of prostrations in the east, and to the homage of petty kings acknowledging the supremacy of the emperor.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 10. The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne , etc.] The ministers of the Gospel begin the worship of God, and lead in it, who are the four living creatures; when the members of churches, who are the four and twenty elders, follow, and approach the divine Being in a most humble manner: and worship him that liveth for ever and ever : in Spirit, and in truth, with faith and fervency, in every part of duty they are directed to: and cast their crowns before the throne ; signifying, that they received them, from him that sits upon it, being by the grace of God what they are; and that they are unworthy to wear them in his presence, being but unprofitable servants in all they do; and hereby also acknowledging their subjection to him as their King and lawgiver. Something like this the Jews relate of the family above; they say, when the holy blessed God ascends the glorious throne of judgment, the whole family above tremble; and when they see the holy blessed God they take their crowns from off their heads and pray and seek mercy for Israel; and immediately he ascends the throne of mercy f141 . And such like actions have been done by kings and princes to one another, in token of subjection. Thus Tigranes, king of Armenia, fell down at the feet of Pompey, and cast his crown from his head, which Pompey replaced; and having commanded him certain things, ordered him to enjoy his kingdoms f142 : so Herod meeting Augustus Caesar at Rhode, when he entered the city took oil his crown, and after a speech made to him, with which Caesar was pleased, he set it on him again f143 . Saying ; as follows.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 9-11 - All true believers wholly ascribe their redemption and conversion their present privileges and future hopes, to the eternal and most holy God. Thus rise the for-ever harmonious, thankful songs of the redeeme in heaven. Would we on earth do like them, let our praises be constant not interrupted; united, not divided; thankful, not cold and formal humble, not self-confident __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
10. Cast (ballousin). Read balousin shall cast. The casting of the crowns is an act of submission and homage. Cicero relates that when Tigranes the king of the Armenians was brought to Pompey's camp as a captive, prostrating himself abjectly, Pompey "raised him up, and replaced on his head the diadem which he had thrown down" (Oration "Pro Sestio," xxvii.). Tacitus gives an account of the public homage paid by the Parthian Tiridates to the statue of Nero. "A tribunal placed in the center, supported a chair of state on which the statue of Nero rested. Tiridates approached, and having immolated the victims in due form, he lifted the diadem from his head and laid it at the feet of the statue, while every heart throbbed with intense emotion" ("Annals," xv., 29).
