And [a]immediately I was ravished [b]in the spirit, [c]and behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat upon the throne.

[d]And he that sat, was to look upon, like unto a Jasper stone, and a sardine, and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like to an emerald.

[e]And round about the throne were four and twenty seats, and upon the seats I saw four and twenty Elders sitting, clothed in white raiment, and had on their heads crowns of gold.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 4:2 The manner of revelation, as before, 1:10.
  2. Revelation 4:2 See Rev. 1:12.
  3. Revelation 4:2 A description of God the Father, and of his glory in the heavens, framed unto the manner of men, by his office, nature, company, attending, effect, instruments and events that follow afterwards. In this verse, he is presented in office a judge, as Abraham said, Gen. 18, which is declared by his throne, as an ensign of judgment, and his sitting thereupon.
  4. Revelation 4:3 By his nature, in that he is the Father, most glorious in his own person, and with his glory overshining all other things.
  5. Revelation 4:4 By the company attending about him in that, as that most high Judge, he is accompanied with the most honorable attendance of Prophets and Apostles, both of the old and new Church, whom Christ hath made to be Priests and Kings, Rev. 1:6 and 5:10.

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