Apocalypse 4:2
And immediately I was in the spirit: and behold there was a throne set in heaven, and upon the throne one sitting.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et statim fui in spiritu : et ecce sedes posita erat in cælo, et supra sedem sedens.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- εὐθέως ἐγενόμην ἐν πνεύματι· καὶ ἰδοὺ θρόνος ἔκειτο ἐν τῷ οὐρανῷ, καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν θρόνον καθήμενος,
Haydock's commentary
I was in the spirit, rapt as it were in an ecstacy into heaven, and saw a throne, and one sitting, representing God the Father. (Witham)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Victorinus of Pettau Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John, From the fourth chapter
2. “Immediately I was in the Spirit.”] And since the mind of the faithful is opened by the Holy Spirit, and that is manifested to them which was also foretold to the fathers, he distinctly says: