Verse 4
4. About to write A phrase which suggests that the apostle was immediate reporter and recorder of all he heard and saw.
A voice from heaven One of the monitory directions occurring along the course of the apocalyptic movements. The thunders were God’s prophetic voice; these were divine directions for the panorama.
Seal up… write them not As if the blank space were really contained in the seer’s scroll, and could there be sealed even though by him unwritten.
The seer seems about, in his simplicity, to undertake an impossible task; namely, to translate the uttered meanings of the thunders into human words. If the full import of death, judgment, and eternity could come upon our souls it would be too much for us; we would be struck by it to the earth, as Saul of Tarsus was overthrown. Only by divine mental exaltation could John receive the uttered conceptions; and when obedience induces him to purpose the writing, divine wisdom excuses and peremptorily forbids the attempt.
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