George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Revelation 8:8
The great mountain denotes the heresy of Arius, which caused the greatest troubles in the Church, and destroyed many churches, which are here denoted by the ships. (Pastorini)
The great mountain denotes the heresy of Arius, which caused the greatest troubles in the Church, and destroyed many churches, which are here denoted by the ships. (Pastorini)
REVELATION 8:8 puri, The word puri, is absent from 046, about 125 minuscules, syrph _al_. A majority of the Committee preferred to include the word on the basis of its presence in such diversified wi...
Verse Revelation 8:8. _A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE_] Supposed to signify the powerful nations which invaded the Roman empire. _Mountain_, in prophetic language, signifies a _kingdom_; Jeremiah...
AND THE SECOND ANGEL SOUNDED - Compare the notes on Revelation 8:2. This, according to the interpretation proposed above, refers to the second of the four great events which contributed to the downfal...
CHAPTER S 8:6-11:18 The Sounding of the Seven Trumpets _ 1. The first trumpet (Revelation 8:6)_ 2. The second trumpet (Revelation 8:8) 3. The third trumpet (Revelation 8:10) 4. The
THE FIRST FOUR TRUMPETS. The first four trumpets, like the first four seals, form a connected group, and differ in character from the last three. They affect chiefly the natural world, which they over...
THE SECOND TRUMPET. And the second angel sounded, and as it were. 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 creatur...
THE SILENCE AND THE THUNDER OF PRAYER (Revelation 8:1-5)...
The first angel sounded a blast on his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood and launched themselves on the dry land; and a third part of the dry land was burned up, and a third part...
The Second Trumpet, Revelation 8:8-9 8. _a great mountain burning with fire_ Cf. Jeremiah 51:25. It can hardly be said how far the image may have been suggested to either prophet by the natural phenom...
8, 9. THE SECOND TRUMPET...
ὌΡΟΣ ΜΈΓΑ ΠΥΡῚ ΚΑΙΌΜΕΝΟΝ. Cf. Jeremiah 51 (28):25 ἰδοὺ ἐγώ πρὸς σὲ τὸ ὄρος τὸ διεφθαρμένον τὸ διαφθεῖρον πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν, καὶ ἐκτενῶ τὴν χεῖρά μου ἐπὶ σὲ καὶ κατακυλιῶ σε ἐπὶ τῶν πετρῶν, καὶ δώσω σε ὡς...
Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS...
_THE FIRST TWO ANGELS SOUND REVELATION 8:7-9:_ This is not final judgment as only a third of everything is touched. These are warnings to call the wicked to repentance. The sounding of the first trump...
ΈΣΆΛΠΙΣΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΣΑΛΠΊΖΩ (G4537) дуть в трубу. Эта фраза может обозначать войну или заражение источников воды (ВВС), ΚΑΙΌΜΕΝΟΝPRAES.pass.part, от ΚΑΊΩ (G2545) зажигать; _pass._ гореть, п...
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 co...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 26 Text Revelation 8:8-9 8 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 bloo...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER VIII THE SEVENTH SEAL OPENED _Text (Revelation 8:1-13)_ 1 And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. 2 An...
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; AS IT WERE - not literally: a mountain-like burnin...
__ Throne Section-The Trumpets 15 The fact that they perform priestly functions shows that they are of the priest nation. No other nation will have access to the temple (Exo_19:6; 1Pe_2:9; Rev_1:6)....
8:8 into (c-18) Or 'to,' _ eis_ , Matthew 12:20 ....
THE SEVENTH SEAL. THE FOUR TRUMPETS 1. The seventh seal is opened. Heaven waits in hushed awe for a brief period. REVELATION 8:2 TO REVELATION 11:19. The Seven Trumpets....
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 8 THE SEVENTH (7TH) *SEAL - REVELATION 8:1 V1 When the *Lamb opened the seventh (7th) *seal, there was silence in heaven for about h...
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 p...
CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST SIX TRUMPETS. Revelation 8:1; Revelation 9:1. THE two consolatory visions of chap. 7 have closed, and the Seer returns to that opening of the seven Seals which had been interr...
A fiery mass, huge as a mountain, is flung into the sea a description which would recall the fiery volcanic bombs familiar to inhabitants of the Egean. The catastrophe includes, as in the first Egypti...
_The first four trumpets_....
The seventh seal includes the seven trumpets. What a contrast that pause must have been to the jubilant songs of the great multitude! In the Jewish temple, we are told, the musical instruments and cha...
The seventh and last seal on the scroll is broken. On earth uproar and strife follow as at Babel, but in heaven silence for half an hour. Then follows the sounding of trumpets initiating activities le...
Another calamity in nature is here used to describe a warning coming from God. Something like a great mountain on fire is cast into the sea and one-third is turned to blood, onethird of all creatures...
(6) 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; (6) The second execution on the sea, in this ver...
(8) 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; (9) And the third part of the creatures which wer...
We have already seen the bearing of the seven churches to which the Lord was pleased to send the letters contained in the second and third Chapter s. We have found, I trust, substantial reason and amp...
The Seventh Seal I. INTRODUCTION A. During our study of chapter 6, (during the 5th seal), we caught a glimpse "of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held....
This at once distinguishes them from the heavenly worshipers; there is no temple there; the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. He that sits on the throne tabernacles over these, as once ov...
AND THE SECOND ANGEL SOUNDED,.... His trumpet: AND AS IT WERE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE WAS CAST INTO THE SEA; by which is meant not the devil, as some think; called a "mountain" from his he...
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; Ver. 8. _A great mountain_] Some notable heresiarch,...
_And the second angel sounded, and, as it were, a great mountain burning with fire_ That is, a great warlike nation, or hero; for in the style of poetry, which is near akin to the style of prophecy, h...
The sounding of the first and second trumpets:...
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;...
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...
_ 8 Then the second angel sounded: And something like a great mountain burning with fire was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood._ A. The symbol of water is shown to represent pe...
7-13 The first angel sounded the first trumpet, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood. A storm of heresies, a mixture of dreadful errors falling on the church, or a tempest of destructi...
There is a great variety of senses also about this MOUNTAIN of FIRE CAST INTO THE SEA. Some by it understand things happening in Judea; but this had been not to have showed John the things which shoul...
Revelation 8:8 Then G2532 second G1208 angel G32 sounded G4537 (G5656) And G2532 like G5613 great G3173 mountain...
‘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 creatures which were in the sea...
The first four Trumpets are evidently separated from the three which follow them , both by the words of Revelation 8:13 and by the fact that they refer to things of earth, while in the latter we are b...
Revelation 8:8-9. These two verses contain the second trumpet, at the sounding of which what resembled a great mountain, AS IT WERE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE WAS EAST INTO THE SEA. There is n...
AS IT WERE (ως). "As if," not a great mountain, but a blazing mass as large as a mountain.BURNING WITH FIRE (πυρ καιομενον). Present middle participle of καιω. Somewhat like Enoch 18:13, but perh...
ANGEL (_ See Scofield) - (Hebrews 1:4). _...
CONTENTS: Opening of the seventh seal from which seven trumpets come. Four of the trumpet judgments announced. CHARACTERS: John, seven angels, angel with censor. CONCLUSION: Woe to those who, by thei...
Revelation 8:1. _When he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour._ The holy prophets in receiving revelations sought to be silent, calm, and abstracted...
A LARGE MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE. That is what it _looked like._ This is symbolic of destructive disasters in which God uses the _sea_ as a tool of vengeance. We are to interpret _all_ disasters inv...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 8:8 A GREAT MOUNTAIN, BURNING WITH FIRE, THROWN INTO THE SEA. The imagery echoes Jeremiah 51:25
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 8:6 Revelation’s third vision series (with a second interlude in Revelation 10:1) pictures judgments sent from heaven in response to the saints’ prayers. The fir
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 8:2 A brief vision of God’s heavenly temple, focusing on a golden incense altar, opens a new cycle of seven visions, each of which is introduced by an angelic trumpet bla...
These verses give us the sounding of four trumpets. As the four seals had a similarity in the four horses, so the four trumpets have a similarity, and may be considered together. At the sounding of th...
FOUR TRUMPET VOICES _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 8:1. SEVENTH SEAL.—“The main visions give us more external aspects; the interposed visions show the inner and more spiritual aspects. Th...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 8:1 AND WHEN. Καὶ ὅταν, instead of καὶ ὅτε (as in the other seals), is read in A, C, and gives a certain indefiniteness which does not belong to any of the rest (Alford)....
_8 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;_ _ 9 AND THE THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WE...
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour (Revelation 8:1). Silence can sometimes be an awesome thing, especially in a tremendous crowd of pe...
Amos 7:4; Exodus 7:17; Ezekiel 14:9; Jeremiah 51:25; Mark 11:23;...
As it were [ω ς]. Not a mountain, but a fiery mass so large as to resemble one. Blood. Reminding of the first plague in Egypt (Exodus 7:20; Exodus 7:21)....
THE SEVEN TRUMPETS Revelation 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The seventh seal. The sixth seal was opened in the closing statements of Revelation 6:1. The seventh chapter, which was studied in our last tw...
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea — By the sea, particularly as it is here opposed to the earth, we may understand the west, or Euro...
Observe here, 1. The universality of the judgment inflicted; the former judgment was upon the earth, this upon the sea; that no place might escape,. storm of hail and blood falls upon the former,. mou...