ταῦτα (tauta) in Revelation 22:8: Accusative Plural Neuter
ταῦτα (tauta) in Revelation 22:8
Textual Witness
The Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus reads ταῦτα twice in Revelation 22:8, first with John as the one seeing and hearing, then with the angel as the one showing.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form helps the verse sound cumulative and referential, gathering the witnessed material under one demonstrative pointer.
How To Communicate It
In translation and teaching, render it in a way that keeps the reference explicit, such as these things or this, according to the immediate context.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not turn grammatical gender into a theological gender claim.
- Do not let the pronoun form change the lemma into another word or force a meaning beyond the verse.
What Does The Label Mean?
Pronoun: this demonstrative word points to something already in view, heard, or otherwise identified by the context.
Accusative: the form commonly marks a direct object or related object-like role, though context determines the exact function here.
Plural: the form is grammatically plural, so it can point to more than one item or to a collective set in view.
Neuter: the form belongs to the neuter grammatical class, which here points broadly to the things shown and heard without making a gender claim.
What The Form Does In This Verse
ὁ βλέπων and τοῦ δεικνύοντός μοι.
The first occurrence works with the participle phrase, and the second is governed by the showing action in the closing clause. In both places the pronoun refers to the same witnessed matters in the scene.
It identifies the things John sees, hears, and is being shown, so the repeated pronoun ties the verse to the revealed content rather than to a new referent.
It is not a subject form, and it does not by itself specify a new agent, new topic, or theological category.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The repeated demonstrative gathers what John sees and hears and keeps the verse tied to the revealed content.
Accusative neuter plural object content. identifies the things witnessed and shown in the scene. Attached to ταῦτα in the seeing, hearing, and showing sequence. Governed by βλέπων, ἀκούων, and δεικνύοντος. The repeated pronoun ties the actions to the same revealed matters rather than introducing a new subject.
What does John see, hear, and receive as shown? The demonstrative gathers these things as the content of John's witnessed revelation.
Direct: The object content directly affects the repeated rendering of these things in the verse.
The repeated form gathers revealed matters in the scene and should not be treated as a separate agent or new topic.
Repeated pronoun creates a new theological category: The pronoun identifies the content seen, heard, and shown; the scene supplies the meaning of that content.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus reads ταῦτα twice in Revelation 22:8, first with John as the one seeing and hearing, then with the angel as the one showing.
The lemma οὗτος is a demonstrative pronoun meaning this or these, and here the plural neuter form naturally points to the disclosed matters in view.
The accusative form fits object-like reference in both clauses, but the scene itself determines that the pronoun refers to the visions, words, and disclosures John experienced.
The verse presents John as the witness of these revealed things and the angel as the one who showed them, so the pronoun strengthens continuity across the scene.
Within Revelation, such demonstrative reference often keeps attention on what has been revealed, heard, or seen, without requiring a separate interpretive layer beyond the context.
For readers, the form signals that the speaker is pointing back to the shared revelatory content, helping the sentence remain concrete and scene-based.
Do not infer from the neuter plural alone that the referent is abstract, multiple in a strict numerical sense, or theologically coded.