Revelation 4:1 — King James Version← Study notes
“After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.”
Revelation 4:1 — Greek Interlinear
Greek · Revelation 4:133 words
ℹGreek text from the SBL Greek New Testament (SBLGNT). Transliteration follows SBL Academic conventions.
Church Fathers on Revelation 4:1
“After this, I beheld, and, lo, a door was opened in heaven.” The new testament is announced as an open door in heaven. “And the first voice which I heard was, as it were, of a trumpet talking with me, saying, Come up hither.” Since the door is shown to be opened, it is manifest that previously it had been closed to men. And it was sufficiently and fully laid open when Christ ascended with His body to the Father into heaven. Moreover, the first voice which he had heard when…
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