REVELATION—NOTE ON Revelation 6:7 Death and Hades (the realm of the dead) ride the pale horse (the color of corpses). Their authority to kill is limited to a fourth of the earth. Sword, famine, and pestilence (here meaning epidemic disease, such as bubonic plague) sum up the disasters the red, black, and pale horses symbolize. They also echo covenant punishments given to Jerusalem in the exile (Ezekiel 14:12).

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