Revelation 1:5 → Leviticus 17:11

The Apocalypse opens with a doxology to "Him who loves us and has released us from our sins by His blood" (Rev 1:5). The phrase "by His blood" (ἐν τῷ αἵματι αὐτοῦ) compresses the whole Leviticus 17:11 trajectory into a single liberation-formula: the blood that frees from sins is the blood whose life atones. The connection is an echo rather than a citation — John does not quote Lev 17:11, but the entire conception of release-from-sin-by-blood draws its intelligibility from the life-in-blood doctrine that grounds the sacrificial system. It is typological: the Levitical blood that atoned for the soul (Lev 17:11) prefigures the blood of the slain Lamb, with the escalation supplied by the dignity of the Lamb whose life is poured out — a thread Revelation will return to again and again (Rev 5:9; 7:14; 12:11), each instance presupposing that the Lamb's blood is the Lamb's life accepted for his people. The link runs along the Sacrifice and Atonement trajectory. The telos is doxology born of joy: the blood is named not in a ledger but in worship — "to Him be glory and power forever" (Rev 1:6) — because the freed are those whose sins the once-for-all blood truly released, the very deliverance the repeated altar-blood longed to accomplish, now the ground of unending praise.