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10. ἐγενόμην ἐν πνεύματι. Was caught into a state of spiritual rapture. Son 4:2 and (nearly) Rev 17:3, Rev 21:10; cf. 1Ki 18:12; Eze 3:12; Eze 3:14; Eze 37:1; also 2Co 12:2-3.
ἐν τῇ κυριακῇ ἡμέρᾳ. Undoubtedly here used (though for the first time) in the sense now traditional throughout Christendom. Some commentators have proposed to translate, “I was, in spirit, on the day of the Lord,” i.e. was carried away in Spirit to the Great Day of the Lord’s Coming. But the parallel of Rev 4:2 seems against this, though Rev 17:3 and Rev 21:10 may be pleaded in its favour.
φωνὴν μεγάλην ὡς σάλπιγγος, λεγούσης. This participle, used throughout the book in different genders and cases, with or without a show of grammatical construction (here it is only a show, for we should expect λέγουσαν), seldom seems to mean more than quotation marks in English. Is the speaker the same as in Rev 1:17; Rev 3:22? This is implied by the gloss from Rev 22:13 (see crit. note) and probable from the context: the contrast between a voice like a trumpet and a voice like many waters is not decisive; but the voice in Rev 4:1, which is expressly said to be the same as the voice here, seems to belong to a herald-angel rather than to the Lamb: if so here, when the Seer turns to see, the Angel has vanished in the light of the Lord.