1Then I turned, and lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a flying roll.
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And he said unto me, What seest thou? And I answered, I see a flying roll; the length thereof is twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof ten cubits.
Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book was therein; …
And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again, and said, Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. …
And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-4)We do not find that the prophet now needed to be awakened, as he did Zech. 4:1. Being awakened then, he kept wakeful after; nay, now he needs not be so much as called to look about him, for of his own accord he turns and lifts up his eyes . This good men sometimes get by their infirmities, they make them the more careful and circumspect afterwards. Now observe, I. What it was that the prophet saw;…
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