And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. The trumpets shook the world-kingdoms in longer process: the vials swiftly and suddenly overthrow the kingdom of the beast who invested himself with the... [ Continue Reading ]
And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image. WENT - `away.' POURED OUT. So the angel cast fire into the earth previous to the series of trumpets (Re... [ Continue Reading ]
And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea; and it became as the blood of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. ANGEL. So B, Andreas; but A C, Vulgate, omit. UPON - `into.' BECAME AS THE BLOOD - answering to another Egyptian plague BECAME AS THE BLOOD - answering to a... [ Continue Reading ]
And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood. ANGEL. (.) So Syriac, Coptic, Andreas; but 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, omit it.... [ Continue Reading ]
And I heard the angel of the waters say, Thou art righteous, O Lord, which art, and wast, and shalt be, because thou hast judged thus. ANGEL OF (PRESIDING OVER) THE WATERS. O LORD. Omitted by 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, Andreas. AND SHALT BE. 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, Andreas, f... [ Continue Reading ]
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy. (; ; , end.) Anticipation of ; : cf. . FOR. A B C, Andreas, omit: 'Aleph ('), 'of which (blood) they are worthy.'... [ Continue Reading ]
And I heard another out of the altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and righteous are thy judgments. ANOTHER OUT OF. Omitted in 'Aleph (') A C, Syriac, Coptic. 'I heard the altar (personified) saying.' On it the prayers of saints are presented before God: beneath it are the martyrs' souls... [ Continue Reading ]
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire. ANGEL. So 'Aleph ('), Coptic, Andreas; but A B C, Vulgate, Syriac, omit. UPON. Not as Revelation 16:2, 'into.' SUN. Whereas by the fourth trumpet the sun is darkened () in a third par... [ Continue Reading ]
And men were scorched with great heat, and blasphemed the name of God, which hath power over these plagues: and they repented not to give him glory. MEN - `the men.' REPENTED NOT TO GIVE HIM GLORY - (.) Affliction, if it does not melt, hardens. Compare the better result on others (; ; ).... [ Continue Reading ]
And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast; and his kingdom was full of darkness; and they gnawed their tongues for pain, ANGEL So Coptic, Andreas; omitted by 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, Syriac. SEAT - `throne of the beast:' set up in arrogant mimicry of God's: the drago... [ Continue Reading ]
And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds. SORES. Therefore each fresh plague was accompanied with the preceding plagues: there was an accumulation, not a mere succession, of plagues. REPENTED NOT - (cf. .)... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared. ANGEL. So Coptic, Andreas; but 'Aleph (') A B C, Vulgate, Syriac, omit. KINGS OF THE EAST - `the kings who are from the rising of... [ Continue Reading ]
And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet. UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE FROGS - antitype to the frogs sent on Egypt. The 'unclean spirit' in the land (Palestine) is foretold, , in connection... [ Continue Reading ]
For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty. DEVILS - ` demons.' WORKING MIRACLES - `signs.' GO FORTH UNTO, [ epi (G1909)] - 'for,' i:e., to tempt them... [ Continue Reading ]
Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. The gathering of the world-kings with the beast against the Lamb presages Christ's coming; therefore He here gives the charge to be watching for His coming, clothed in the... [ Continue Reading ]
And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon. HE - rather, 'they (the three unclean spirits) gathered them together.' "He" (if retained) will refer to God giving them over to the delusion of the three unclean spirits, or else the sixth angel ( Revelation 16:1... [ Continue Reading ]
And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done. ANGEL. So Andreas; but 'Aleph (') A B, Vulgate, Syriac, omit. INTO. So Andreas [ eis (G1519)]; but's 'Aleph (') A B, 'upon' [ epi (G1909)]. GREA... [ Continue Reading ]
And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great. VOICES, AND THUNDERS, AND LIGHTNINGS. A has the order, 'lightning ... voices ... thunders.' The same close as that of the s... [ Continue Reading ]
And the great city was divided into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell: and great Babylon came in remembrance before God, to give unto her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath. THE GREAT CITY - capital of the apostate church, spiritual Babylon (of which Rome is the repr... [ Continue Reading ]
And every island fled away, and the mountains were not found. Parallel to Revelation 6:14; by anticipation descriptive of the last judgment. THE MOUNTAINS - `there was found no mountains.'... [ Continue Reading ]
And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven, every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great. FELL - `descends.' UPON MEN - `the men.' MEN - not those struck who died, but the rest. Unlike t... [ Continue Reading ]