A trumpet (cdArvyyos). See on Matt. xxiv. 31. Properly @ war-trumpet, though the word was also used of a sacred trumpet, with the epithet (epa sacred.
Speaking—saying (AaAovcns—réyouca). See on Matt. xxviii. 18. The former verb indicates the breaking of the silence, the latter the matter of the address.
Hereafter (werd taita). Some editors connect these words with the succeeding verse, substituting them for xal and at the beginning of that verse, and rendering, “I will show thee the things which must come to pass. After these things straight- way I was,” etc.
2. | was in the Spirit (éyevouny év wvevpatr). Strictly, J became: I found myself in. Appropriate to the sudden and unconscious transportation of the seer into the ecstatic state. Thus Dante describes his unconscious rapture into Paradise:
‘* And suddenly it seemed that day to day Was added, as if He who had the power Had with another sun the heaven adorned,”
Beatrice, noting his amazement, says:
‘Thou makest thyself so dull With false imagining, that thou seest not What thou wouldst see if thou hadst shaken it off. Thou art not upon earth as thou believest ; But lightning, fleeing its appropriate site, Ne’er ran as thou, who thitherward returnest.” ‘* Paradiso,” i., 60-93,
Athrone. See Ezek. i. 26-28.
Was set (écevro). Denoting merely position, not that the seer saw the placing of the throne. Compare John ii. 6.
One sitting. He is called henceforward throughout the book He that sitteth on the throne, and is distinguished from the Son in ch. vi. 16; vii. 10, and from the Holy Spirit in ver. 5.