Revelation 6:1
And I saw when the Lamb opened the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures saying, with a voice like thunder, Come and see.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
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Acts 4:20For we can not but speak the things that we have seen and heard.
Revelation 5:1And I saw in the right hand of him that sits on the throne, a book written within and without, sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:3And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, Come and see.
Revelation 6:7And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth living creature say, Come and see.
Revelation 11:19And the temple of God was opened in heaven, and there was seen in his temple, the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there were lightnings and voices and thunderings, and an earthquake, and great hail.
Revelation 19:6And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying: Alleluia; for the Lord God the Almighty reigns.
Matthew Henry on Revelation 6:1
The book of the divine counsels being thus lodged in the hand of Christ, he loses no time, but immediately enters upon the work of opening the seals and publishing the contents; but this is done in such a manner as still leaves the predictions very abstruse and difficult to be understood. Hitherto the waters of the sanctuary have been as those in Ezekiel's vision, only to the ankles, or to the knees, or to the loins at least; but here they begin to be a river that cannot be passed over. The visions which John saw,… Read the whole commentary →