I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet,
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Oecumenius
AD 990
I was in the spirit: These words mean that that he saw a vision that was not understandable by the senses nor seen with physical ears or eyes, but with a prophetic sense. Isaiah spoke concerning this spiritual hearing when he told “me a learned tongue, that I should know how to uphold by word him that is weary: he wakened in the morning, in the morning he wakened my ear, that I may hear him as a master. 5 The Lord God has opened my ear.(Is. 50:4-5)”
