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E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 8:9

creatures. See Revelation 5:13 . and = which. life. App-110 and App-170 . Not only "living souls" (Genesis 2:19 ) in the waters of the sea, but the "living souls" (Genesis 2:7 ) on it. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 8:8-9

Revelation 8:8-9. As it were a great mountain burning, &c.— In the style of prophesy, a mountain signifies a kingdom, and the strength of it, its metropolis or capital city. See Jeremiah 30:24. Great disorders and commotions, especially when kingdoms are moved by hostile invasions, are expressed in the prophetic style, by carrying, or casting mountains into the midst of the sea. See Psalms 46:2. The sea, in the Hebrew language, is any collection of waters: now as waters are expressly made a... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 8:9

9. The symbolical interpreters take the ships here to be churches. For the Greek here for ships is not the common one, but that used in the Gospels of the apostolic vessel in which Christ taught: and the first churches were in the shape of an inverted ship: and the Greek for destroyed is also used of heretical corruptings ( :-). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 8:8-9

The second trumpet 8:8-9Following the blowing of the second trumpet something "like [cf. Revelation 6:13] a great mountain" that was on fire came crashing down from heaven into the waters of one or more of the earth’s seas. This resulted in a third of the oceans, perhaps a third of the ocean waters, becoming blood. Whether the water became blood, or became a substance like blood, or simply looked like blood, is difficult to determine from the text (cf. Exodus 7:20-21; Psalms 78:43-44; Joel... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 8:1-13

The Seventh Seal. The Four Trumpets1. The seventh seal is opened. Heaven waits in hushed awe for a brief period.Revelation 8:2 to Revelation 11:19. The Seven Trumpets.2. The seven angels, regarded in later Jewish belief as having a special position in God’s presence (cp. Tobit 12:15; Luke 1:19), are given seven trumpets, symbols of judgment: cp. Matthew 24:31; 1 Corinthians 15:52; 1 Thessalonians 4:16. It is best to understand the vision of the trumpets as being the contents of the seventh... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Revelation 8:8-9

(8, 9) And the second angel . . .—Translate, And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatures that were in the sea died, those which have lives; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. The sea becoming blood reminds us again of the plagues in Egypt (Exodus 7:20-21); but we must once more note the variation. It is not an uplifted rod like that of Moses... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Revelation 8:1-13

Revelation 8:1 Mr. A. C. Benson writes: 'I think that there are few verses of the Bible that give one a more sudden and startling thrill than the verse at the beginning of the eighth chapter of the Revelation. "And when he had opened the seventh seal there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour." The very simplicity of the words, the homely note of specified time, is in itself deeply impressive. But further, it gives the dim sense of some awful and unseen preparation going... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Revelation 8:1-13

CHAPTER VI.THE FIRST SIX TRUMPETS.Revelation 8:1-13; Revelation 9:1-21.THE two consolatory visions of chap. 7 have closed, and the Seer returns to that opening of the seven Seals which had been interrupted in order that these two visions might be interposed.Six Seals had been opened in chap. 6; the opening of the seventh follows: - "And when He opened the seventh seal, there followed silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. And I saw the seven angels which stand before God; and there... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Revelation 8:6-13

CHAPTERS 8:6-11:18 The Sounding of the Seven Trumpets 1. The first trumpet (Revelation 8:6-7 ) 2. The second trumpet (Revelation 8:8-9 ) 3. The third trumpet (Revelation 8:10-11 ) 4. The fourth trumpet (Revelation 8:12-13 ) 5. The fifth trumpet (Revelation 9:1-12 ) 6. The sixth trumpet (Revelation 9:13-21 ) 7. Parenthesis: The angel and the little book (Revelation 10:1-11 ) 8. The temple (Revelation 11:1-2 ) 9. The two witnesses (Revelation 11:3-12 ) 10. The earthquake and the... read more

L.M. Grant

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 8:1-13

The Seventh Seal Opened: Introduction to the Trumpets The last of the seven seals is now opened (v. 1) and there is silence in heaven for about half an hour before John sees seven trumpets given to seven angels. The seals have been only the beginning of God's working behind the scenes in reference to judgment. The trumpets indicate a ringing, declared testimony to all the world. The silence first shows the calm, quiet deliberation that will do nothing in undue haste. Also, before the angels... read more