And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

As ... lion. Christ, whom the angel represents, is often so symbolized ().

Seven thunders - `the seven thunders.' Being part of the apocalyptic symbolism, they have the article as well known. Thunderings marked the evening of the seventh seal (; ): so at the seventh vial (Revelation 16:17). Wordsworth calls this the prophetic use of the article: 'the thunders, of which more hereafter.' Their full meaning shall be only known at the grand consummation marked by the seventh seal, the seventh trumpet (), and the seventh vial.

Uttered their - `spake their own voices:' peculiarly their own, not now revealed. Compare the seven voices of Yahweh, Psalms 29:1.

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