Revelation 8:1

And when he had opened the seventh seale there was silence in heven aboute the space of halfe an houre.

Tyndale New Testament

In The King James Version

And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

In Context

2And I sawe angelles stondynge before god and to them were geven vii. trompettes.

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Cross References

Revelation 5:1And I sawe in the right honde of him that sat in the trone a boke written with in and on the backside sealyd with vii. seales.

Revelation 6:1And I sawe when the lambe openyd one of the seales and I herde one of the iiii. bestes saye as it were the noyse of thonder come and se.

Revelation 6:5And when he opened the thyrde seale I herde the thyrde beste saye: come and se. And I behelde and loo a blacke hors: and he that sate on him had a payre of balances in his honde.

Revelation 6:9And when he opened the fyfte seale I sawe vnder the aultre the soules of them that were kylled for the worde of God and for the testymony which they had

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 →

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