Revelation 8:1
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven, as it were for half an hour.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I saw seven angels standing in the presence of God; and there were given to them seven trumpets.
Cross References
Psalms 37:7Be subject to the Lord and pray to him Envy not the man who prospereth in his way; the man who doth unjust things.
Habakkuk 2:20But the Lord is in his holy temple: let all the earth keep silence before him.
Revelation 5:1And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne, a book written within and without, sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:1And I saw that the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures, as it were the voice of thunder, saying: Come, and see.
Revelation 6:5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying: Come, and see. 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 them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held.
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 →