The sixth angel takes part in the action. The Euphrates had been the ideal Eastern boundary of Israel's territory: it now formed the frontier between Rome and her dreaded neighbour, the Parthian Empire (Philo, leg. ad C [913] § ii.; Verg. Georg. i. 509; Tac. Hist. iv. 51).

[913] . Codex Ephraemi (sæc. v.), the Paris palimpsest, edited by Tischendorf in 1843.

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