Apocalypse 4:2

Louis Segond

Aussitôt je fus ravi en esprit. Et voici, il y avait un trône dans le ciel, et sur ce trône quelqu'un était assis.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et sur-le-champ je fus ravi en esprit : et voici, un tr�ne �tait pos� au Ciel, et quelqu'un �tait assis sur le tr�ne.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et aussit�t je fus ravi en esprit; et voici, un tr�ne �tait dress� dans le ciel, et quelqu'un �tait assis sur ce tr�ne.

Darby's French Translation
Sur-le-champ je fus en Esprit: et voici, un tr�ne �tait plac� dans le ciel, et sur le tr�ne, quelqu'un �tait assis;

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

I was: Revelation 1:10, Revelation 17:3, Revelation 21:10, Ezekiel 3:12-14

a throne: Revelation 4:5, Revelation 20:11, Isaiah 6:1, Jeremiah 17:12, Ezekiel 1:26, Ezekiel 1:28, Ezekiel 10:1

and one: Revelation 4:9, Revelation 3:21, Revelation 5:1, Revelation 5:6, Revelation 5:7, Revelation 5:13, Revelation 6:16, Revelation 7:9-17, Revelation 12:5, Revelation 19:4, Revelation 21:5, Revelation 22:1-3, Isaiah 6:1, Daniel 7:9, Hebrews 8:1

Reciprocal: Numbers 2:2 - about the 1 Kings 22:19 - I saw the Lord Psalms 11:4 - the Lord's Ezekiel 8:3 - the spirit Matthew 22:43 - General Matthew 23:22 - by the Acts 10:10 - he fell 2 Corinthians 12:2 - in the Revelation 7:10 - sitteth Revelation 14:3 - throne

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And immediately I was in the Spirit,.... As he had been before, Revelation 1:10; it seems he had been some little time out of his ecstasy, how long cannot be said, and now, upon this new scene of things, returned to it; upon the opening of the door in heaven, and hearing the former voice, and the things it said, the Spirit of God at once possessed and filled him, in an extraordinary manner; and his soul or spirit was immediately taken from the consideration of all sensible objects, and was fixed and intent upon the things presented to it in the vision, so that it was as if it was out of the body. The Arabic version reads, "then therefore I went in the Spirit"; in obedience to the voice that called him up, in which he was assisted by the Spirit of God, who lifted him up as he did Ezekiel, when he saw what follows:

and behold, a throne was set in heaven; not for the final judgment, on which the son of man will sit, when he comes to judge the quick and dead, for he is not the person that fills this but this is a symbol of the power, authority, and dominion now exercised by God, not over the world in general, who has prepared his throne in the heavens, and governs among the nations, according to his sovereign will and pleasure, but which he exercises in his church, signified by "heaven". The allusion is to the temple, and the throne of God in it, Isaiah 6:1. The temple was an emblem of the Gospel church, Jerusalem, or the Gospel church state, and was to be called the throne of the Lord, Jeremiah 3:17, and now his throne is set there. Here he exercises a jurisdiction and government; he is King and lawgiver in it; he has enacted laws, and he writes them on the hearts of his people, and puts his Spirit within them, and makes them both able and willing to obey them.

And [one] sat on the throne; not the trinity of persons in the Godhead, which some think are signified by the three precious stones in Revelation 4:3, the jasper, sardine, and emerald; for, as distinct from him that sat upon the throne, the Lamb is said to be in the midst of it, and the seven spirits of God are said to be before it: nor is Jesus Christ intended, and his two natures; his divine nature by the jasper, and his human nature by the red and blood coloured sardine; since he, the Lamb, is represented as in the midst of the throne, and is often distinguished from him that sat upon it; see Revelation 5:6; but God the Father is designed, who sits on the throne, though not to the exclusion of the Son and Spirit, yet in distinction from them. This clause is left out in the Ethiopic version.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And immediately I was in the Spirit - See the notes on Revelation 1:10. He does not affirm that he was caught up into heaven, nor does he say what impression was on his own mind, if any, as to the place where he was; but he was at once absorbed in the contemplation of the visions before him. He was doubtless still in Patmos, and these things were made to pass before his mind as a reality; that is, they appeared as real to him as if he saw them, and they were in fact a real symbolical representation of things occurring in heaven.

And, behold, a throne was set in heaven - That is, a throne was placed there. The first thing that arrested his attention was a throne. Tiffs was “in heaven” - an expression which proves that the scene of the vision was not the temple in Jerusalem, as some have supposed. There is no allusion to the temple, and no imagery drawn from the temple. Isaiah had his vision Isaiah 6:1-13 in the holy of holies of the temple; Ezekiel Ezekiel 1:1, by the river Chebar; but John looked directly into heaven, and saw the throne of God, and the encircling worshippers there.

And one sat on the throne - It is remarkable that John gives no description of him who sat on the throne, nor does he indicate who he was by name. Neither do Isaiah or Ezekiel attempt to describe the appearance of the Deity, nor are there any intimations of that appearance given from which a picture or an image could be formed. So much do their representations accord with what is demanded by correct taste; and so sedulously have they guarded against any encouragement of idolatry.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Revelation 4:2. I was in the Spirit — Rapt up in an ecstasy.