tation of God in any full sense, though just as dear: to him, individually, as regards salvation. I believe both these thoughts are intended for the Church.
The apostle now is translated (in spirit) into heaven. Before, he had seen Christ, on turning round—a newly revealed state of things—but on earth, and he there still: but the churches now were no longer so recognised; and the voice which he had heard at the first behind him on earth now calls him up to heaven.
Here, accordingly, for the first time, he saw the throne, for it is set in heaven (the earth, as addressing the Church, he had left), and there was one sitting on it.
Heretofore, it has been the Son of Man judging upon earth: according to His various glory, in address; but in vision, the Son of Man. We have not the Son of Man again, till the judgment in xiv. 14. The Lamb only is concerned in the seals. The angelic power is connected with the trumpets. We shall see this more particularly; but I remark only, the Lamb is always in a higher or lower place; this latter, by grace, not exercising intermediate providences. In the throne, suffering, or judging.
It was in heaven the apostle must learn the
