Revelation 8:1
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I saw the seven angels that stood before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.
Cross References
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 6:1And 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.
Revelation 6:5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, Come and see. And I saw, and behold, a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of scales in his hand.
Revelation 6:9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they had borne:
Matthew Henry on Revelation 8:1
We have already seen what occurred upon opening six of the seals; we now come to the opening of the seventh, which introduced the sounding of the seven trumpets; and a direful scene now opens. Most expositors agree that the seven seals represent the interval between the apostle's time and the reign of Constantine, but that the seven trumpets are designed to represent the rise of antichrist, some time after the empire became Christian. In this chapter we have, I. The preface, or prelude, to the sounding of the… Read the whole commentary →