And the heaven departed i.e. parted asunder. The verb departwas so used (only in a transitive sense) in the Marriage Service until the last revision of the Prayer-Book, "till death us depart," i.e. "till death part us." Here we still have a reference to Isaiah 34:4. The word for "scroll" is the same as that rendered "book" in c. v. &c.

every mountain and island, &c. Cf. Revelation 16:20. There the convulsion is greater than here: and even there it does not imply quite so much as Revelation 20:11 a fact to be remembered in the interpretation of this passage.

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