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# General Information:
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This is the next part of John's vision. He describes suddenly seeing a great white throne and the dead being judged.
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# The earth and the heaven fled away from his presence, but there was no place for them to go
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John describes heaven and earth as if they were people who were trying to escape God's judgment. This means that God completely destroyed the old heaven and earth. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-personification]])
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# the mighty and the unimportant
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John combines these opposite-meaning words to mean all of the dead people. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-merism]])
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# the books were opened
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "someone opened the books" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# The dead were judged
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "God judged the people who had died and now lived again" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# by what was recorded
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This can be stated in active form. AT: "by what he had recorded" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-activepassive]])
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# translationWords
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/throne]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/earth]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/heaven]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/death]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/mighty]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/other/bookoflife]]
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* [[rc://en/tw/dict/bible/kt/judge]] |