Revelation 6:1
AND I saw, when the Lamb had opened one of the SEVEN SEALS. And I heard one of the four living-ones speaking as the voice of thunder, Come, and see!
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
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Acts 4:20For what we have seen and heard we cannot but speak.
Revelation 5:1AND I saw in the right hand of him who sat on the throne a writing which was written within and on the back, and sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:3And when he had opened the SECOND SEAL, I heard the second living-one, who said, Come!
Revelation 6:7And when he had opened the FOURTH SEAL, I heard the fourth living-one, saying, Come, and see!
Revelation 11:19And the temple of Aloha was opened in heaven; and there was seen the ark of his covenant in his temple. And there were lightnings, and thunderings, and voices, and movement, and great hail.
Revelation 19:6And I heard as the voice of a great host, as the voice of many waters, as the voice of mighty thunders, saying, Halleluia, For the Lord our God the Omnipotent reigneth!
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 →