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Louis Segond
Apocalypse 4:1
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Apr�s ces choses je regardai, et voici une porte fut ouverte au Ciel; et la premi�re voix que j'avais ou�e comme d'une trompette, et qui parlait avec moi, [me] dit : monte ici, et je te montrerai les choses qui doivent arriver � l'avenir.
Apr�s cela je regardai, et voici une porte �tait ouverte dans le ciel; et la premi�re voix que j'avais entendue, comme celle d'une trompette, et qui parlait avec moi, dit: Monte ici, et je te ferai voir les choses qui doivent arriver apr�s celles-ci.
Apr�s ces choses, je vis: et voici, une porte ouverte dans le ciel, et la premi�re voix que j'avais ou�e, comme d'une trompette parlant avec moi, disant: Monte ici, et je te montrerai les choses qui doivent arriver apr�s celles-ci.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
After: Revelation 1:1 - Revelation 3:22
a door: Exodus 1:1, Matthew 3:16, Mark 1:10, Luke 3:21, Acts 7:56, Acts 10:11
the first: Revelation 1:10, Revelation 16:17
Come: Revelation 11:12, Exodus 19:24, Exodus 24:12, Exodus 34:2, Exodus 34:3
and I: Revelation 1:19, Revelation 22:6, John 16:13
Reciprocal: Genesis 41:25 - God Genesis 49:1 - Gather Exodus 19:16 - voice Proverbs 25:7 - Come Isaiah 48:6 - showed Isaiah 58:1 - like Ezekiel 1:1 - the heavens Daniel 2:45 - the great Daniel 9:22 - he informed Amos 3:7 - but Amos 7:4 - showed John 1:51 - Hereafter Acts 7:55 - looked Revelation 5:4 - because Revelation 7:1 - after Revelation 13:6 - and them Revelation 14:1 - I looked Revelation 17:1 - talked Revelation 19:11 - heaven
Gill's Notes on the Bible
After this I looked,.... After John had seen the vision of Christ, in the midst of the golden candlesticks, with seven stars in his right hand; after he was bid to write what he had seen, and what were, and should be hereafter; and after he had by order written the seven epistles to the seven churches, he looked about him to see what else he could, having his desires and expectations raised of seeing more, and other things, for the eye is never satisfied with seeing; though this is to be understood, not of looking with the eyes of his body, but with the eyes of his mind; of his beholding things in a visionary way, as the prophets did, whence they are called "seers", and their prophecies "visions": how long this was after the first vision is not certain, it may be but a few minutes; and it is to be observed, that as the first chapter of this book, with the vision in it, is the preface or introduction to the church prophecy delivered out in the seven epistles; so this and the following chapter, with the vision therein, contain the preface or introduction to the book prophecy exhibited in the opening of the seven seals of the sealed book:
and behold, a door [was] opened in heaven: not in a literal sense, as the heavens were opened at Christ's baptism, and at Stephen's martyrdom, but in a figurative sense; and the phrase is to be understood of a discovery of things that were, or were to be in the church of God, which in this book is oftentimes signified by "heaven": and it must be conceived as done in a visionary way, just as Ezekiel, in the visions of God, was brought to Jerusalem, and the temple there, and in at a door was shown all the abominations committed in the court and temple; so John, in a visionary way, through an opened door, had a scene of things in the church presented to him, as follows:
and the first voice which I heard [was], as it were, of a trumpet talking with me; this voice is not called the first voice with respect to any other voices that were to follow; but it designs the former voice, the voice that John heard behind him, when he saw the first vision; and this, as that, was clear, loud, and sonorous as a trumpet, so that he thoroughly heard, and rightly understood what was said; it was the same Person that made the following representation of things as did then, even he who is the Alpha and the Omega, the Lord Jesus Christ, the author of the whole revelation; the "first" is left out in the Arabic version: the allusion is to the blowing of trumpets at the opening of the door of the temple;
"every day there were one and twenty soundings of a trumpet in the temple, three לפתיחת שערים, "at the opening of the doors", and nine at the daily morning sacrifice, and nine at the daily evening sacrifice f.''
And one of them was called the great door of the temple; and he that slew the daily sacrifice, did not slay till he heard the sound of that door when it was opened g; so here at the opening of the door in heaven, in the church, of which the temple was a type, the voice of the Son of God is heard as the sound of a trumpet, talking loudly and familiarly to John:
which said, come up hither; from the isle of Patmos, where he was, up to heaven; not into the third heaven, where Paul was caught up, but rather up into the Gospel church, the Jerusalem which is above; though this, as before, is to be understood in a visionary way, in like manner as Ezekiel was lifted up by the Spirit between the earth and the heavens; and so John, in a vision, was called up from Patmos into the air, where he had a representation of the church made unto him:
and I will show thee things which must be hereafter; in the world, in the Roman empire, and in the church of God, to the end of the world; not but that there were some things shown him, as before, in the church prophecy, which had been, and were, and which was done to give him a complete view of things from first to last: and these things were shown in the following visions of the seals, trumpets, and vials, and by the Lord Jesus Christ, who talked with him, and to whom this revelation was given to show unto his servants; and it was of things that "must" be, because determined and resolved upon in the unalterable purposes and decrees of God.
f Misn. Succa, c. 5. sect. 5. g Misn. Tamid, c. 3. sect. 7.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
After this - Greek, “After these things”; that is, after what he had seen, and after what he had been directed to record in the preceding chapters. How long after these things this occurred, he does not say - whether on the same day, or at some subsequent time; and conjecture would be useless. The scene, however, is changed. Instead of seeing the Saviour standing before him Revelation 1:0, the scene is transferred to heaven, and he is permitted to look in upon the throne of God, and upon the worshippers there.
I looked - Greek, “I saw” - εἶδον eidon. Our word “look” would rather indicate purpose or intentions, as if he had designedly directed his attention to heaven, to see what could be discovered there. The meaning, however, is simply that he saw a new vision, without intimating whether there was any design on his part, and without saying how his thoughts came to be directed to heaven.
A door was opened - That is, there was apparently an opening in the sky like a door, so that he could look into heaven.
In heaven - Or, rather, in the expanse above - in the visible heavens as they appear to spread out over the earth. So Ezekiel 1:1, “The heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God.” The Hebrews spoke of the sky above as a solid expanse; or as a curtain stretched out; or as an extended arch above the earth - describing it as it appears to the eye. In that expanse, or arch, the stars are set as gems (compare the notes on Isaiah 34:4); through apertures or windows in that expanse the rain comes down, Genesis 7:11; and that is opened when a heavenly messenger comes down to the earth, Matthew 3:16. Compare Luke 3:21; Acts 7:56; Acts 10:11. Of course, all this is figurative, but it is such language as all people naturally use. The simple meaning here is, that John had a vision of what is in heaven as if there had been such an opening made through the sky, and he had been permitted to look into the world above.
And the first voice which I heard - That is, the first sound which he heard was a command to come up and see the glories of that world. He afterward heard other sounds - the sounds of praise; but the first notes that fell on his ear were a direction to come up there and receive a revelation respecting future things. This does not seem to me to mean, as Prof. Stuart, Lord, and others suppose, that he now recognized the voice which had first, or formerly spoken to him Revelation 1:10, but that this was the first in contradistinction from other voices which he afterward heard. It resembled the former “voice” in this, that it was “like the sound of a trumpet,” but besides that there does not seem to have been anything that would suggest to him that it came from the same source. It is certainly possible that the Greek would admit of that interpretation, but it is not the most obvious or probable.
Was as it were of a trumpet - It resembled the sound of a trumpet, Revelation 1:10.
Talking with me - As of a trumpet that seemed to speak directly to me.
Which said - That is, the voice said.
Come up hither - To the place whence the voice seemed to proceed - heaven.
And I will show thee things which must be hereafter - Greek, “after these things.” The reference is to future events; and the meaning is, that there would be disclosed to him events that were to occur at some future period. There is no intimation here when they would occur, or what would be embraced in the period referred to. All that the words would properly convey would be, that there would be a disclosure of things that were to occur in some future time.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER IV.
John sees the throne of God in heaven surrounded by twenty-four
elders; and four living creatures, full of eyes; which all
join in giving glory to the Almighty, 1-11.
NOTES ON CHAP. IV.
Verse Revelation 4:1. A door was opened in heaven — This appears to have been a visible aperture in the sky over his head.
