Revelation 4:1 BSB — MannaFest

Revelation 4:1

After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show you what must happen after these things.”

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ASV

After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must come to pass hereafter.

KJV

After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.

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Commentary

3 voices

Victorinus of Pettau

Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John (304)

"After this, I beheld, and, lo, a door was opened in heaven." The new testament is announced as an open door in heaven. "And the first voice which I heard was, as it were, of a trumpet talking with me, saying, Come up hither." Since the door is shown to be opened, it is manifest that previously it had been closed to men. And it was sufficiently and fully laid open when Christ ascended with His body to the Father into heaven.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

After this - Greek, “After these things”; that is, after what he had seen, and after what he had been directed to record in the preceding chapters. How long after these things this occurred, he does not say - whether on the same day, or at some subsequent time; and conjecture would be useless. The scene, however, is changed. Instead of seeing the Saviour standing before him Rev. 1, the scene is transferred to heaven, and he is permitted to look in upon the throne of God, and upon the worshippers there.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

After this--Greek, "After these things," marking the opening of the next vision in the succession. Here is the transition from "the things which are" (Re 1:19), the existing state of the seven churches, as a type of the Church in general, in John's time, to "the things which shall be hereafter," namely, in relation to the time when John wrote.

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Original language & word study

33 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Μετὰ	Meta	After	G3326 →
ταῦτα	tauta	these things	G3778 →
εἶδον,	eidon	I looked,	G1492 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἰδοὺ	idou	behold	G2400 →
θύρα	thura	a door	G2374 →
ἠνεῳγμένη	ēneōgmenē	opened	G455 →
ἐν	en	in	G1722 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
οὐρανῷ,	ouranō	heaven,	G3772 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ἡ	hē	the	G3588 →
φωνὴ	phōnē	voice	G5456 →
ἡ	hē	<the>	G3588 →
πρώτη	prōtē	first	G4413 →
ἣν	hēn	that	G3739 →
ἤκουσα	ēkousa	I heard	G191 →
ὡς	hōs	like	G5613 →
σάλπιγγος	salpingos	a trumpet	G4536 →
λαλούσης	lalousēs	was speaking	G2980 →
μετ᾽	met᾽	with	G3326 →
ἐμοῦ	emou	me	G1473 →
λέγων·	legōn	saying;	G3004 →
ἀνάβα	anaba	do come up	G305 →
ὧδε,	hōde	here,	G5602 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
δείξω	deixō	I will show	G1166 →
σοι	soi	to you	G4771 →
ἃ	ha	what	G3739 →
δεῖ	dei	it behooves	G1163 →
γενέσθαι	genesthai	to take place	G1096 →
μετὰ	meta	after	G3326 →
ταῦτα.	tauta	these things.	G3778 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Revelation 1:10
On the Lord’s day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,
leads to
- Revelation 21:10
  And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city of Jerusalem coming down out of heaven from God,
- 2 Corinthians 12:2–4
  I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of it I do not know, but God knows.
- Revelation 4:1–2
  After this I looked and saw a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had previously heard speak to me like a trumpet was saying, “Come up here, and I will show…
Through
Exodus 24:12
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 5:22
  The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them…
- Exodus 31:18
  When the LORD had finished speaking with Moses on Mount Sinai, He gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
Through
Mark 1:10
As soon as Jesus came up out of the water, He saw the heavens breaking open and the Spirit descending on Him like a dove.
leads to
- John 1:31–34
  I myself did not know Him, but the reason I came baptizing with water was that He might be revealed to Israel.”
- Luke 3:22
  and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”
- Isaiah 42:1
  “Here is My Servant, whom I uphold, My Chosen One, in whom My soul delights. I will put My Spirit on Him, and He will bring justice to the nations.