In this chapter the prophetical scene opens; and, as the epistolary part opened with a vision of Christ , so this part is introduced with a glorious appearance of the great God, whose throne is in heaven, compassed about with the heavenly host.

We have here an account of a second vision with which the apostle John was favoured: After this, that is, not only “after I had seen the vision of Christ walking in the midst of the golden candlesticks,” but “after I had taken his messages from his mouth, and written and sent them to the several…

The Vision of Heaven. (a. d. 95.) —8 And they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come. 9 And when those beasts give glory and honour and thanks to him that sat on the throne, who liveth for ever and ever, 10 The four and twenty elders…