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After this (μετὰ ταῦτα)
Rev., literally, after these things. Not indicating a break in the ecstatic state of the seer, but only a succession of separate visions.
I looked (εἶδον)
Rev., better, I saw. Not of the directing of attention, but of the simple reception of the vision.
A door was opened (θύρα ἀνεῳγμένη)
Rev., rightly, omits was. A door set open. The A.V. implies that the seer witnessed the opening of the door.
In Heaven
Compare Eze 1:1; Mat 3:16; Act 7:56; Act 10:11. In all these heaven itself is opened.
Was
Omit. Render, as Rev., “a voice as of a trumpet.”
A trumpet (σάλπιγγος)
See on Mat 24:31. Properly a war-trumpet, though the word was also used of a sacred trumpet, with the epithet ἱερά sacred.
Speaking - saying (λαλούσης - λέγουσα)
See on Mat 28:18. The former verb indicates the breaking of the silence, the latter the matter of the address.
Hereafter (μετὰ ταῦτα)
Some editors connect these words with the succeeding verse, substituting them for καὶ and at the beginning of that verse, and rendering, “I will show thee the things which must come to pass. After these things straightway I was,” etc.