4And I wept much, because no man was found worthy to open and to read the book, neither to look thereon.
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And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? …
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)Hitherto the apostle had seen only the great God, the governor of all things, now, I. He is favoured with a sight of the model and methods of his government, as they are all written down in a book which he holds in his hand; and this we are now to consider as shut up and sealed in the hand of God. Observe, 1. The designs and methods of divine Providence towards the church and the world are stated…
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