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I was in the Spirit (ἐγενόμην ἐν πνεύματι)
Strictly, I became: I found myself in. Appropriate to the sudden and unconscious transportation of the seer into the ecstatic state. Thus Dante describes his unconscious rapture into Paradise:
“And suddenly it seemed that day to day
Was added, as if He who had the power
Had with another sun the heaven adorned.”
Beatrice, noticing his amazement, says:
“Thou makest thyself so dull
With false imagining, that thou seest not
What thou wouldst see if thou hadst shaken it off.
Thou art not upon earth as thou believest;
But lightning, fleeing its appropriate site,
Ne'er ran as thou, who thitherward returnest.”
“Paradiso,” i., 60-93.
A throne
See Eze 1:26-28.
Was set (ἔκειτο)
Denoting merely position, not that the seer saw the placing of the throne. Compare Joh 2:6.
One sitting
He is called henceforward throughout the book He that sitteth on the throne, and is distinguished from the Son in Rev 6:16; Rev 7:10, and from the Holy Spirit in Rev 4:5. He is commonly understood to be God the Father; but some understand the triune God.