Revelation 8:1
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven, for about half an hour.
James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I saw the seven angels, who stood before God; and to them were given, seven trumpets.
Cross References
Revelation 5:1And I saw, at the right hand of him who sat on the throne, a book, which was written within and on the back side, and which was sealed with seven seals.
Revelation 6:1And, when the Lamb had opened one of the seven seals, I looked, and I heard one of the four Animals say, as with a voice of thunder, Come, and see.
Revelation 6:5And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third Animal say, Come, and see. And I looked, and lo, a black horse; and he that sat thereon, had a balance in his hand.
Revelation 6:9And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them who were slain on account of the word of God, and on account of the testimony to the Lamb which was with them.
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 →