Revelation 1:10

1:10 I was in the Spirit38 on the Lord’s Day39 when40 I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet,

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38	tn Or “in the spirit.” “Spirit” could refer either to the Holy Spirit or the human spirit, but in either case John was in “a state of spiritual exaltation best described as a trance” (R. H. Mounce, Revelation [NICNT], 75).
39	tn Concerning the phrase κυριακῇ ἡμέρᾳ (kuriakē hēmera) BDAG 576 s.v. κυριακός states: “pert. to belonging to the Lord, the Lord’s … κ. ἡμέρᾳ the Lord’s day (Kephal. I 192, 1; 193, 31 …) i.e. certainly Sunday (so in Mod. Gk.…) Rv 1:10 (WStott, NTS 12, ’65, 70–75).”
40	tn The conjunction καί (kai) is not introducing a coordinate thought, but one that is logically subordinate to the main verb ἐγενόμην (egenomēn).