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I was in the Spirit (egenomēn en pneumati). Rather, “I came to be (as in Rev 1:9) in the Spirit,” came into an ecstatic condition as in Act 10:10.; Act 22:17, not the normal spiritual condition (einai en pneumati, Rom 8:9).
On the Lord’s Day (en tēi kuriakēi hēmerāi). Deissmann has proven (Bible Studies, p. 217f.; Light, etc., p. 357ff.) from inscriptions and papyri that the word kuriakos was in common use for the sense “imperial” as imperial finance and imperial treasury and from papyri and ostraca that hēmera Sebastē (Augustus Day) was the first day of each month, Emperor’s Day on which money payments were made (cf. 1Co 16:1.). It was easy, therefore, for the Christians to take this term, already in use, and apply it to the first day of the week in honour of the Lord Jesus Christ’s resurrection on that day (Didache 14, Ignatius Magn. 9). In the N.T. the word occurs only here and 1Co 11:20 (kuriakon deipnon the Lord's Supper). It has no reference to hēmera kuriou (the day of judgment, 2Pe 3:10).
Behind me (opisō mou). “The unexpected, overpowering entrance of the divine voice” (Vincent). Cf. Eze 3:12.
Voice (phōnēn). Of Christ, as is plain in Rev 1:12.
As of a trumpet (hōs salpiggos). So in Rev 4:1 referring to this.
Saying (legousēs). Present active participle genitive case agreeing with salpiggos rather than legousan, accusative agreeing with phōnēn. So on purpose, as is clear from Rev 4:1, where lalousēs also agrees with salpiggos.