{I was about to write} ((886d)ellon graphein). Imperfect
active of mell(935c) (double augment as in  Joh 4:47  12:33  18:32 )
and the present (inchoative) active infinitive of graph(935c), "I
was on the point of beginning to write," as commanded in
 1:11,19 . {Seal up} (sphragison). Aorist active imperative of
sphragiz(935c), tense of urgency, "seal up at once." {And write them
not} (kai m(8820)auta graps(8869)s). Prohibition with m(885c) and the
ingressive aorist active subjunctive of graph(935c), "Do not begin
to write." It is idle to conjecture what was in the utterances.
Compare Paul's silence in  2Co 12:4 .