went Lit., went away, from the Angels" place in Heaven before the Temple to the edgeor "window" whence they can look down upon the earth.

a noisome and grievous sore The plagues that accompany these vials have a close analogy to those of the trumpets in ch. 8 sqq., and, like them, have some to the plagues of Egypt: here cf. Exodus 9:9. The epithets translated "noisome and grievous" are somewhat more general: "bad and evil" would be perhaps their most exact equivalents.

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