| John Reeve - 1832 - 874 pages
...that the opening of every seal produced something new to John in his vision. But in the opening of the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. That is, there was a little space of time between the opening of the other six seals, before this seventh... | |
| Bible - 1832 - 244 pages
...waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from then. eyes. CHAP. VIII. Seven angels with trumpets. AND when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven ahout the space of half an hour. 2 And I saw the seven angels which stood before God ; and to them... | |
| Ethan Smith - Bible - 1833 - 422 pages
...great salvation ! for in due time all shall reap who faint not. REVELATION VIII. Seventh Seal. Ver. 1. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there...silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. This seal was not, like its predecessors, to contain some precise event ; but it was to contain all... | |
| Robert Bransby COOPER - 1833 - 268 pages
...was now almost arrived. After a short period of tranquillity the hour of retribution was at hand. " And when he had opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour, and seven trumpets were given to the seven angels which stood before God." This silence betokens a... | |
| 1833 - 360 pages
...tears from their eyes. CHAP. VIII. The seventh. seal is opened : the angels with the seven trumpets. AND when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven, as it were for half an hour. 2 And 1 saw seven angels standing in the presence of God : and there were... | |
| Samuel Longhurst - 1833 - 228 pages
...vol. ii. page 388. VII. 9. " And palms in their hands." — See note at Matthew xxi. 8, 9. VIII. 1. " There was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." Most interpreters agree that this silence iu heaven for half an hour is an allusion to the manner of... | |
| Matthew Habershon - Bible - 1834 - 498 pages
...is almost impossible to conceive ! — From 1812 to 1815, which ends the sixth seal. SEVENTH SEAL. " And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was...SILENCE IN HEAVEN about the space of half an hour." In endeavouring to give the interpretation of this seal, consistency appears to require, that we should... | |
| Theology - 1834 - 764 pages
...far heathen ground Some lonely saint hails the fresh odour, though Its source he cannot know. 5. " And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was...silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." WHENCE is this awe, by stillness spread O'er the world-fretted soul ? Wave reared on wave its boastful... | |
| Alexander Campbell - 1835 - 502 pages
...lead them to fountains of living water; and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. VIII. — And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stood before God: and seven trumpets were... | |
| Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Christian life - 1835 - 158 pages
...opened, every tongue was. mute — every soul was prostrate in the presence of the living God, and there was "silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." Rev. viii. 1. This state of mental silence, in which the active powers of man are all at rest and waiting... | |
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