1. Revelation 1:17 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What about the visitor's voice is now different from in verse 15?

Revelation 1:17 (ESV)

17 When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,

Though in Revelation 1:15 the Visitor’s voice was like the roar of many waters, John now could understand what this Visitor was saying.

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