Vincent's Word Studies in the NT

Revelation 4:2

I was in the Spirit [ε γ ε ν ο μ η ν ε ν π ν ε υ μ α τ ι]. Strictly, I 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, noticing 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, " 1, 60 - 93.

A throne. See Ezekiel 1:26-28.

Was set [ε κ ε ι τ ο]. Denoting merely position, not that the seer saw the placing of the throne. Compare John 2:6.

One sitting. He is called henceforward throughout the book He that sitteth on the throne, and is distinguished from the Son in chapter Revelation 6:16; Revelation 7:10, and from the Holy Spirit in verse 5.

He is commonly understood to be God the Father; but some understand the triune God. 79

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Revelation 4:2

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