Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 4:2
2. Immediately On ascending and entering the door. In the Spirit If this means his own spirit, then the thought is, that his consciousness, withdrawing from all perceptions of the things of sense, concentrated itself into the higher realm of the spirit, and, entering into full sympathy with the divine Spirit, became fully perceptive of things in the supersensible world, and especially of a series of symbols presented by the divine Spirit to the eye of his spirit. A throne was set... read more
Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 4:1-11
PART SECOND. THE THEOPHANIC APOCALYPSE. The Theophany in divine royal state, Revelation 4:1-6. The scene of the Apocalypse opens with a presentation of GOD enthroned, surrounded with his glorious Court of ministers, seated for the purpose of opening the predictive seals from which are presented the pictorial phases of the Messianic dispensation. He who as omnipresent fills all space, selects a point of manifestation, and puts on a semblance of finite personality in order to disclose a... read more