μοι, (moi) in Revelation 22:10: P-1DS
μοι, (moi) in Revelation 22:10
Textual Witness
The witness reads 'μοι' in Revelation 22:10, and the surrounding clause is 'Καὶ λέγει μοι'.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form helps readers understand that the command is spoken to a specific hearer, so the verse reads as personal address rather than general instruction.
How To Communicate It
Use this form to explain the flow of speech in the verse: the message is directed to one recipient, which clarifies the command's immediacy.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- This pronoun identifies the recipient of speech, but it does not by itself settle the speaker's identity beyond the verse context.
- Do not turn case or number into a doctrine; keep the explanation anchored in the clause and its direct address.
What Does The Label Mean?
Noun: this form names a person by way of the personal pronoun, functioning like a noun in the sentence.
Dative: this form usually marks an indirect object, recipient, or related participant, and here it fits the one addressed in speech.
Singular: the form refers to one person in this occurrence, not to a group.
Feminine: this form does not carry a grammatical gender marking in the witness here, and no theological gender claim should be drawn from it.
What The Form Does In This Verse
λέγει
The verb 'says' governs the dative pronoun as the person to whom the speech is directed.
It identifies the recipient of the command in direct discourse, namely the one being told not to seal the words of the prophecy.
It does not function as the subject of the verb, and it does not itself name the speaker or alter the command's content.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Moderate: The dative pronoun identifies the recipient of the command not to seal the prophecy.
Recipient of direct speech. marks the person to whom the command is addressed. Attached to the speech verb he says. Governed by the verb of speaking. The form clarifies the speech recipient, while the command itself supplies the interpretive content.
To whom is the command spoken? The dative pronoun marks the narrator as the recipient of the command.
Direct: The dative pronoun directly supports rendering the recipient as "to me."
The pronoun identifies the recipient, not the speaker or the content of the command.
Dative always means indirect object in the same way: Here the dative marks the speech recipient; other dative uses require their own context.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The witness reads 'μοι' in Revelation 22:10, and the surrounding clause is 'Καὶ λέγει μοι'.
The lemma is ἐγώ, a personal pronoun whose forms can appear as full or enclitic case forms depending on context.
Here the dative form fits a speech frame and points to the one receiving the words, without needing emphasis to do its work.
The verse presents a direct address: someone speaks to John and issues the command not to seal the prophetic words because the time is near.
Across the wider Greek New Testament, this pronoun can mark the recipient of speech or relation, and that pattern suits this verse.
In communication, the form keeps the focus on the addressed hearer and helps the reader hear the verse as a spoken command.
Do not derive speaker identity, emphasis, or theological weight from this case form alone.