Revelation 1:10

Spirit] RV 'Spirit.' John was in a prophetic trance: cp. Acts 10:10; 2 Corinthians 12:2. Lord's day] the earliest known use of the term for 'Sunday': cp. Acts 20:7; 1 Corinthians 16:2.

As of a trumpet] Archbp. Benson pointed out ('The Apocalypse') that this voice is that of the herald angel who called St. John to his work. This has been obscured by the false reading in Revelation 1:11. The angel's trumpet-voice is recorded again in Revelation 4:1. The angel directs St. John by his voice from afar in the first part of Bev.(cp. Revelation 10:4; Revelation 10:8; Revelation 11:1; Revelation 14:13), but after Revelation 17:1 accompanies him. 'As an ang of the Presence (cp. Revelation 8:2; Revelation 15:1; Revelation 15:5.), he is called Christ's angel and God's angel (cp. Revelation 1:1; Revelation 22:6), and his voice has been “out of heaven.” 'This angel speaks in Revelation 19:9; Revelation 21:5; Revelation 21:9, is referred to in Revelation 21:15; Revelation 22:1, and speaks again in Revelation 22:6; Revelation 22:10.

Other voices to be noted are, the 'great voice' of the Almighty (Revelation 11:12; Revelation 16:17; Revelation 21:3; Revelation 21:5.); the voice of Christ, 'as the voice of many waters' (Revelation 1:15; Revelation 1:17., Revelation 14:2; Revelation 16:15; Revelation 19:6; Revelation 22:7; Revelation 22:12; Revelation 22:16; Revelation 22:20); the voice of the living creatures, 'as a voice of thunder' (Revelation 6:1; Revelation 19:6); the voice of the elders, 'as the voice of harpers harping with their harps' (Revelation 5:8; Revelation 14:2); and the voice of the saints before God's throne, 'as it were the voice of a great multitude' (Revelation 7:9; Revelation 19:1; Revelation 19:6).