Revelation Chapter 4 verse 2 Holy Bible
Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;
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Straight away I was in the Spirit: and I saw a high seat in heaven, and one was seated on it;
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Immediately I became in [the] Spirit; and behold, a throne stood in the heaven, and upon the throne one sitting,
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And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.
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Immediately I was in the Spirit. Behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting on the throne
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and immediately I was in the Spirit, and lo, a throne was set in the heaven, and upon the throne is `one' sitting,
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Revelation 4 : 2 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - And immediately I was in the Spirit. Omit "and" (see above), so that the passage may be rendered, After these things, immediately, I was in the Spirit; a new scene was opened out, as before (in ver. 1). St. John was already in the Spirit; but now receives a fresh outpouring of grace, enabling him to see yet more deeply into the mysteries of the kingdom of God. And, behold, a throne was set in heaven; or, a throne was situated (ἔκειτο). There is no action of placing or setting up. Compare the vision of Ezekiel, "In the firmament that was above the head of the cherubims there appeared over them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne" (Ezekiel 10:1), where the throne appears above the cherubim, in the position of the cloud of glory (cf. also Isaiah 6:1, 2, where the seraphim are above). And one sat on the throne. Probably the Triune God, to whom the Trisagien in ver. 8 is addressed. Some have thought that the Father is indicated, in contradistinction to the other Persons of the Holy Trinity, and that it is from him that the Son takes the book in Revelation 5:8. But as Cornelius a Lapide remarks, "The Son as Man may well be said, especially in a sublime vision like this, to come to God." The Person is not named, because (1) the Name of God is incommunicable; it is the "new Name" (see on Revelation 3:12); or (2) because the seer describes only what is seen; or (3) it is suppressed from a sense of reverence.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) And immediately I was in the spirit.-- Comp. Revelation 1:10. The mind and soul were absorbed in the vision of things celestial. (See. 2Corinthians 12:1-4.)"Words may not tell of that transhuman change;If I were only what Thou didst create,Then newly, Love ! by whom the heaven is ruled,Thou know'st, who by Thy light didst bear me up." --Paradiso, i. 68-73.And, behold, a throne was set (i.e., not that the seer saw the throne being set, but when he saw it was already set) in heaven, and one sat on the throne.--Comp. Micaiah's speech (1Kings 22:19). The enthroned One is not named. Have we here a touch of the Jewish reluctance to name Jehovah? or is it that the descriptive phrase, "He that sat on the throne" is Used here, and kept before us in the whole book to remind us that the great world drama moves forward ever under the eyes of the ruling One. (Comp, Revelation 5:1; Revelation 5:7; Revelation 6:15; Revelation 20:11; Revelation 21:5.) . . .
