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He carried me away in the Spirit (apēnegken me en pneumati). See same language in Rev 17:7 when John received a vision of the Harlot City in a wilderness. Here it is “to a mountain great and high” (epi oros mega kai hupsēlon). So it was with Ezekiel (Eze 40:2) and so the devil took Jesus (Mat 4:8). It was apparently not Mount Zion (Rev 14:1), for the New Jerusalem is seen from this mountain. “The Seer is carried thither ‘in spirit’ (cf. Rev 1:10; Rev 4:1); the Angel’s deuro is a sursum cor to which his spirit under the influence of the ‘Spirit of revelation’ (Eph 1:17) at once responds” (Swete).
And he shewed me (kai edeixen moi). First aorist active indicative of deiknumi, just as he had said he would do in Rev 21:9 (deixō soi, I will shew thee). Precisely the same words about Jerusalem as in Rev 21:2, save the absence of kainēn (New).