Exod. 20:18, where “all the people saw the voice … and the voice of the trumpet.” In the light of the allusion to Exod. 19:16, 19 in 1:10–11 (see the comments there), the awkward seeing of a voice in 1:12 is best seen as a continuation of the Exodus allusion (Philo, Decalogue 46–47, underscores the visibility of the voice in Exod. 19:16–19). In Ezek. 3:12–13 (LXX), which probably alludes to Exodus 20 and has been alluded to in Rev. 1:10, the prophet says, “The Spirit took me up, and I heard behind
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