ὁ πρῶτος. Text. Rec[292] adds ἄγγελος with 1 and almost all Latins and other Versions.

[292] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener.

μεμιγμένα. With AB2. Tisch[293] reads μεμιγμένον with אP.

[293] Tischendorf: eighth edition; where the text aud notes differ the latter are cited.

καὶ τὸ τρίτον τῆς γῆς κατεκάη. Text. Rec[294] omits with 1 cop[295]

[294] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener.

[295] Coptic.

7. THE FIRST TRUMPET

7. χάλαζα καὶ πῦρ. Cf. Exodus 9:24 : but here the blood marks the plague as more terrible, and more distinctly miraculous. “The stones of hail and the balls of fire fell in a shower of blood, just as hail and fire balls commonly fall in a shower of rain.” (Alford.)

τὸ τρίτον. It is certainly a feature to be noticed in the first Four Trumpets, as contrasted (see on Revelation 6:9) with the last three, that they introduce plagues (i) on the powers of nature only, not on men, and (ii) that on these the plague stops short of entire destruction. But no plausible explanation has been given of the destruction of a third part (cf. Revelation 6:8 : the limit of the fourth part is an illustration not an explanation which might perhaps be found in parallels like Ezekiel 5:2; Zechariah 13:8-9).

πᾶς χόρτος χλωρός. In exceptional countries like England pastures are green all the year round: in countries like Syria they are green for a season: is it possible that the fiery hail lays waste a third of the earth, and that in the Vision that is the only third where green grass is in season?

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