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The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 6:12-17

The final judgment of the enemies of the Church. The time of the suffering comes to an end. Evil cannot forever triumph. The Lord reserves his rewards for his faithful ones. Nor can the enemies of truth and righteousness escape. Suffering as the Church was when St. John wrote these wonderful words, an assurance that their wrong should not go unjudged and unavenged was needful to uphold the sinking, fainting, feeble, suffering ones. "Vengeance belongeth unto me: I will recompense, saith... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 6:14

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up. The scroll— the parchment book or roll, which is spread out to read, and, when read, roiled up and put away. The passage is apparently founded upon Isaiah 34:4 . "The host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll," etc. And every mountain and island were moved out of their places (cf. Isaiah 40:4 , "Every mountain and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 6:15

And the kings of the earth . The first of the seven classes mentioned. The enumeration is again all extensive, embracing all classes, and men of every degree of social distinction. Bishop Newton is probably not correct in seeing an allusion to particular kings. And the great men; princes (Revised Version). ΄εγιστᾶνες are the grandees, the courtiers, as distinguished from those who are governors and hold military command, and who are subsequently mentioned as the "chief captains.'' ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Revelation 6:15-16

The wonders of the last day. "And the kings of the earth," etc. The last day, the day of days, will be a day of wonders. The words indicate three of the wonders of that day. I. MEN DREADING THE FACE OF CHRIST . "The face of him that sitteth on the throne." Here are men preferring annihilation to a sight of that face. What is the matter with that face? It was, indeed, the human face Divine, the serenest, the loveliest, the kindliest face ever seen on earth. It was a face... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Revelation 6:12-17

And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal - See the notes at Revelation 5:1; Revelation 6:1.And, lo, there was a great earthquake - Before endeavoring to ascertain to what the sixth seal was designed to refer, it is proper, as in the previous cases, to furnish a particular explanation of the meaning of the symbols. All the symbols represented in the opening of this seal denote consternation, commotion, changes; but still they are all significant, and we are to suppose that something would... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 6:12-17

Revelation 6:12-17. And I beheld Further in my vision; when he The Lamb; had opened the sixth seal; and lo! there was a great earthquake Greek, σεισμος μεγας εγενετο , there was a great concussion: for the expression comprehends the shaking of heaven as well as of the earth; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair It lost its usual lustre, and looked black and dark, as in a total eclipse; and the moon became as blood Instead of appearing with its usual brightness in the... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 6:1-17

6:1-8:5 THE SEVEN SEALSMuch of the next part of the book records three series of judgment visions that John saw - the seven seals (6:1-8:5), the seven trumpets (8:6-11:19) and the seven bowls of wrath (15:1-16:21). John also saw another series of visions, the seven thunders, but God did not allow him to record them (10:3-4). This is a reminder that God has not given us all the information about what he is doing, and will yet do, as he brings his purposes in the world to fulfilment.In the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 6:14

departed = parted asunder. See Acts 15:39 . scroll. See Revelation 1:11 . when, &c. = rolling itself up. moved = removed, as Revelation 2:5 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 6:15

the kings of the earth. See App-197 . As regards the social fabric, the present conditions will exist when the Lord comes. great men. Greek. megistanea. Only here; Revelation 18:23 .Mark 6:21 . men, man = ones, one. mighty. Greek. ischuros (with the texts). As in Revelation 19:18 . Compare App-172 . bondman. App-190 . every. Omit. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 6:15

And the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains; and they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb: for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?It is the presence of the Lamb in this scene that separates it from all similar... read more

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