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 speak; these two states of the prophets are carefully to be distinguished; in the state of vision the eyes of their spirit were opened, and the eyes of their body shut, and then they heard what the angels spake, or what Jehovah spake by the angels, and also saw the things which were represented to them in Heaven; and then they sometimes seemed to themselves to be carried from one place to another, the body still remaining in its place. In such a state was John, when he wrote the Apocalypse; and sometimes also Ezekiel, Zachariah and Daniel, and then it is said that they were in vision, or in the spirit; for Ezekiel saith, the spirit lifted me up and brought me in vision of God, in the spirit of God into Chaldea, to them of the captivity: so the vision which I saw ascended over me. Chap. xi. 1. 24. Moreover, he saith, that the spirit took him up, and that he heard behind him an earthquake and other things. Chap iii. 12. 24. Also, that the spirit lifted him up between the earth and the heaven, and brought him in the visions of God to Jerusalem, and he saw abominations, viii. 3. and subsequent verses. In like manner he was in a vision of God, or in the spirit, when he saw the four animals, which were cherubs. Chap. i. and Chap. x. as also when he saw the new earth and the new temple, and the angel measuring them. Chap. xl. 2. and that the spirit took him up. Chap. xliii. 5. The same was the case with Zachariah, in whom there was an angel at the time, when he saw the man riding among the myrtle trees. Chap. i. the eighth and subsequent verses. When he saw four horns, and afterwards a man, in whose hand was a measuring line. Chap. ii. 1. 5. and subsequent verses. When he saw Joshua, the high Priest. Chap. iii. first and subsequent verses. When he saw the Candlestick and the two olive trees. Chap. iv. When he saw the flying Roll and the Ephah. Chap. v. 1. 6. And when he saw the four chariots coming out from between two mountains, and horses. Chap. vi. In a similar state was Daniel, when he saw four beasts coming up out of the sea. Dan. vi. 1. &c. And when he saw the battle of the ram and the he-goat. Chap. viii. that he saw these things in visions, he himself saith, in Chap. vii. 1. 2. 7. 13. Chap. viii. 2. Chap. x. 1. 7. 8, and that the angel Gabriel was seen by him in a vision. Chap. ix. 21 It was the same with John; as when he saw the son of man in the midst of the seven candlesticks. Apoc. Chap. 1. When he saw a throne in heaven, and him that sat thereon, and four animals round about the throne. Chap. iv. When he saw the book sealed with seven seals. Chap. v. When he saw four horses coming out of the book that was opened. Chap. vi. When he saw the four angels standing upon the four corners