“I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,”
I was in the Spirit on the Lord's Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet — the phrase "in the Spirit" (en pneumati) indicates a prophetic trance or ecstatic state where John receives visions, a mode of prophecy familiar from Ezekiel and the apostolic letters. The "Lord's Day" (kyriakē hēmera) is Sunday, the day of resurrection worship, establishing that Christian eschatological hope centers not on Jewish Sabbath but on Christ's victory.
Church Fathers on Revelation 1:10
“Behold, He shall come with clouds, and every eye shall see Him.” For He who at first came hidden in the manhood that He had undertaken, shall after a little while come to judgment manifest in majesty and glory. And what says He?
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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