4: 1 After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice that I heard, a voice as of a trumpet speaking with me, one saying, Come up hither, and I will show thee the things which must ⁴⁴come to pass hereafter.
⁴⁴Or, come to pass. After these things straightway etc.

4: 2 Straightway I was in the spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;
4: 3 and he that sitteth was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.
4: 4 And round about the throne were twenty-four thrones: and upon the thrones I saw twenty-four elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.
4: 5 And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;
4: 6 and before the throne, as it were a ⁴⁵sea of glass like unto crystal; and in the midst ⁴⁶of the throne, and round about the throne, four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.
⁴⁵Or, glassy sea Cf. 1Ki 7:23-26.
⁴⁶Or, before See ch. 7:17; Compare ch. 5:6.

4: 7 And the first living creature was like a lion, and the second living creature like a ⁴⁷bullock, and the third living creature had the face as of a man, and the fourth living creature was like a flying eagle.
⁴⁷Or, calf, or, young bull,

4: 8 And the four living creatures, having each one of them six wings, are full of eyes round about and within: and ⁴⁸they have no rest day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty, who was and who is and ⁴⁹who is to come.
⁴⁸Or, they do not rest day and night,
⁴⁹Or, who cometh; (ο ερχομενος, the coming one)

4: 9 And whenever the living creatures shall give glory and honor and thanks to him that sitteth on the throne, to him that liveth ⁵⁰for ever and ever,
⁵⁰Gk. unto the ages of the ages, And so everywhere.

4: 10 the twenty-four elders shall fall down before him that sitteth on the throne, and shall worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and shall cast their crowns before the throne, saying,
4: 11 Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will ⁵¹they were, and were created.
⁵¹So ℵA 1611 2053 and the majority of lesser Gk. mss., vg. 2050 P 2344 eth read they are, 2329 reads they became, f ¹⁶⁷⁸ reads they were not,