Revelation 8:1
AND when he opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about half an hour.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I saw the seven angels which stood before God, and there were given to them seven trumpets.
Cross References
Revelation 5:1AND I saw on the right hand of him who was seated on the throne a volume of a book written within, and on the back sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:1AND I saw when the lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard one of the four living beings, saying, as with a voice of thunder, Come, and see.
Revelation 6:5And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living being say, Come and see. And I saw, and lo! a black horse; and he that sat upon it had a pair of scales in his hand.
Revelation 6:9And when he opened the fifth seal I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they maintained.
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 →