启示录 9:12-13 CUVS

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 9:12-21

The inefficiency of judgments to lead all to repentance. The voice of suffering innocence does not pass unheeded. The Lord of sabaoth is long-suffering and very merciful, even towards the disobedient and towards the enemies of the truth; but the angels of judgment and punishment, bound and restrained, must at length be loosed. Though the Lord suffereth long and is kind, yet he will avenge his own elect which cry to him day and night. We learn— I. THAT THE END OF JUDGMENT IS ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 9:13

And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice; I heard one voice, perhaps in contradistinction to the four horns next mentioned. From the four horns of the golden altar which is before God; the golden altar before God. The balance of authority seems in favour of retaining τεσσάρων , "four," although the Revisers omit it. It is inserted in B, P, Andreas, Arethas, Primasius, etc., but emitted in א A, Syriac, Coptic, Bede, etc. Many commentators ( eg. Vitringa,... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 9:12

One woe is past - The woe referred to in Revelation 9:1-11. In Revelation 8:13 three woes are mentioned which were to occur successively, and which were to embrace the whole of the period comprised in the seven seals and the seven trumpets. Under the last of the seals we have considered four successive periods, referring to events connected with the downfall of the Western empire; and then we have found one important event worthy of a place in noticing the things which would permanently affect... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 9:13

And the sixth angel sounded - See the notes on Revelation 8:2, Revelation 8:7.And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God - In the language used here there is an allusion to the temple, but the scene is evidently laid in heaven. The temple in its arrangements was designed, undoubtedly, to be in important respects a symbol of heaven, and this idea constantly occurs in the Scriptures. Compare the Epistle to the Hebrews passim. The golden altar stood in the holy... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 9:12

Revelation 9:12. One wo is past, &c. This is added not only to distinguish the woes, and to mark more strongly each period, but also to suggest that some time will intervene between this first wo of the Arabian locusts and the next of the Euphratean horsemen. The similitude between the locusts and Arabians is indeed so great, that it cannot fail of striking every curious observer: and a further resemblance is noted by Mr. Daubuz, that “there had happened in the extent of this torment, a... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 9:13-15

Revelation 9:13-15. The sixth angel sounded, &c. At the sounding of the sixth trumpet, a voice proceeded from the four horns of the golden altar, (for the scene was still in the temple,) ordering the angel of the sixth trumpet to loose the four angels which were bound in the great river Euphrates; and they were loosed accordingly. Such a voice, proceeding from the four horns of the golden altar, is a strong indication of the divine displeasure; and plainly intimates, that the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:1-21

Fifth and sixth trumpets (9:1-21)Worse than the destruction by the forces of nature is the suffering brought by the forces of demons (fifth trumpet). These demonic forces are pictured in a strange and terrifying army of locusts. Though uncontrollable by any human power, they are not independent of the rule of God. He keeps them imprisoned in the abyss (RSV: bottomless pit), and even when he releases them he determines the extent of their activity (9:1-3).The demons do not harm plant life (as... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 9:12

One. i.e. the first woe. and. Omit. behold. App-133 . more = yet. hereafter. Greek. meta tauta. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 9:13

a = one (Revelation 8:13 ). four. Omit. altar. See Revelation 6:9 . read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 9:12

The first Woe is past: behold, there come yet two Woes hereafter.The second woe begins here and runs through the end of the chapter. "This sixth trumpet is the climax beyond which lies the final judgment."[50] "It is a companion to and the complement of the first woe (the fifth trumpet)just described."[51] The great feature of this woe is the 200,000,000 hellish horsemen; but the first woe has already made us see in the locusts there the beginnings of these horsemen here. We regard it as a... read more