φωνῆς μεγάλης. It is not expressly said that the voice is the voice of God: it speaks of Him in the third person, cf. Genesis 22:16. Perhaps the Seer intends us to notice the pure inaccessible spirituality of the Godhead. Cf. St John 5:27.

εἰς τὴν γῆν. Lit., “into the earth,” here and in the next verse. Here “the earth” seems to mean the lower world generally, there the dry land only.

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Old Testament