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Revelation 6:10
and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Verse Revelation 6:10. _AND THEY CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE_] That is, their _blood_, like that of Abel, cried for vengeance; for we are not to suppose that there was any thing like a vindictive spirit...
AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE FIFTH SEAL - notes at Revelation 5:1; Revelation 6:1. I SAW UNDER THE ALTAR - The four living creatures are no longer heard as in the opening of the first four seals. No rea...
CHAPTER S 6 The Opening of the Seven Seals _ 1. The first seal (Revelation 6:1)_ 2. The second seal (Revelation 6:3) 3. The third seal (Revelation 6:5) 4. The fourth seal ...
REVELATION 6. THE OPENING OF THE SEALS. When the seals of the book are opened by the Lamb, a number of woes are let loose upon the world. The first four are described under the figure of horses of dif...
THE FIFTH SEAL. It is evident, from the entire change of the imagery, that, after the fourth seal, the subject of prophetic vision is entirely changed. The horse now disappears, and is seen no more i...
THE OPENING OF THE SEALS (Revelation 6:1-8) As one by one the seals of the roll are opened, history unfolds itself before John's eyes. As we study this section, we must remember one general fact whi...
When he opened the fifth seal, I saw beneath the altar the souls of those who had been stain for the sake of the word of God and because of the witness which they bore. And they cried with a loud voic...
LOUD. great. VOICE. As Abel's blood was said to cry (Genesis 4:10). LORD. App-98. HOLY. the Holy. TRUE. the True. JUDGE. App-122. AVENGE. See Deuteronomy 32:43.
_How long_ Cf. Psalms 94:3. _O Lord_ Not the ordinary word of reverence applied to God, but one meaning (as we say) "lord and master." It is used of God in Luke 2:29; Acts 4:24; and of Christ in...
ἜΚΡΑΞΑΝ ΦΩΝΗ͂Ι ΜΕΓΆΛΗΙ, ΛΈΓΟΝΤΕΣ. Hipp[245] reads καὶ ἐβόησαν καὶ εἶπον πρὸς τὸν θεόν. [245] St Hippolytus. The readings not given by Tischendorf are from the newly published 4th book of his commenta...
THE FIFTH SEAL...
_SEAL FIVE WAS OPENED REVELATION 6:9-11:_ The fifth seal pictured souls under the alter crying for vindication. The soul is the real person. Our body is only a temporary house. These precious ones hav...
ΈΚΡΑΞΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΚΡΆΖΩ (G2896) вопить, кричать, ΛΈΓΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΛΈΓΩ (G3004) говорить, ΈΩ ΠΌΤΕ (G2193; G4219) доколе? как долго? Эти слова перекликаются с ВЗ: Psalms 6:4;...
WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE FIFTH SEAL, &C.— This and the following seals have nothing extrinsical, like the proclamation of the living creatures, to determine from what quarter we should expect their comp...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER VI THE OPENING OF THE SEALS _Text (Revelation 6:1-17)_ INTRODUCTION 1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatu...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 16 Text Revelation 6:9-11 9 And when he opened the fifth seal, I saw underneath the altar the souls of them that had been slain for the word of God, and for the testimony w...
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? HOW LONG? [ Heoos (G2193) pote (G4219)] - 'Until...
__ Throne Section-The Seals 13 It has been suggested that the Syriac version preserves the true reading here. After "blessing" it goes right on and gives every creature to the Lambkin, rather than g...
6:10 long, (g-10) Lit. 'Until when.' Ruler, (h-13) _ Despotes_ , translated 'Lord' in Acts 4:24 . Here, 'Sovereign Ruler.'...
THE SIX SEALS The afflicted Church has been reminded in Revelation 4 f. that God is over all, and that the future is committed to the Lamb. Now (Revelation 6 - Revelation 8:1) she is shown that future...
LORD] RV 'Master.' 12-17. opening of the sixth seal the day of the wrath of God and of the Lamb is impending. The description is founded on the words of Christ: cp. Matthew 24:29. The prophets had exp...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 6 THE 7 *SEALS - REVELATION 6:1-8 THE FIRST 6 *SEALS - REVELATION 6:1-17...
HOW LONG...? — Better. _Until when. O Master_ (the word is the correlative of “servant,” see Revelation 6:10) _the Holy and True, dost Thou not judge and avenge our blood from_ (on) _those who dwell o...
(9-11) THE FIFTH SEAL differs from the four earlier seals. It is not introduced by the voice of the living beings, and the cry “Come.” The voice which is now heard is not the cry of the groaning world...
CHAPTER IV. THE SEALED ROLL OPENED. Revelation 6:1. WITH the sixth chapter of the Apocalypse the main action of the book may be said properly to begin. Three sections of the seven into which it is d...
The fifth seal opened....
Like Clem. Rom., John is fond of δεσπότης as implying the divine might and majesty (3Ma 3:29; 3Ma 5:28). This severe and awe-inspiring conception (_cf._ Philo, _quis rer. div. haer._ 6) means that God...
“THE WRATH OF THE LAMB” Revelation 6:9 This imagery is very majestic; but we cannot really think that the holy martyrs desire to be revenged, except in love and grace. That their persecutors should b...
We now pass to that section of the Book in which, under the heavenly order by earthly administration, events proceed toward the great consummation. The Lamb, holding the book, breaks the seals. The a...
Man is a living soul. (Genesis 2:7; 1 Corinthians 15:44-45) Man also has a spiritual soul which will not die. (Matthew 10:28) McCord indicates the word "destroy" is elsewhere translated "lost." ...
(9) And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held: (10) And they cried with a loud voice, sa...
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 INTERMEDIATE STATE_ ‘And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain.… And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them...
The 7 Seals Part 3 To stop sinning suddenly.--Elbert Hubbard Quotes from Eddie Marquez, a young man that I watched die of AIDS on Tuesday morning, July 20, 6:00 AM (1993). He was a hemafhiliac and c...
What is to follow on earth now begins, when the seals are opened. It will be remarked here, that John, standing in the ruin of the assembly, gives prophetically all that passes from that failure till...
AND THEY CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE,.... With great ardour and fervency, being very pressing and importunate; and which shows that they were awake, and not asleep, and that the soul does not sleep with t...
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth? Ver. 10. _And they cried_] When God intends delive...
The following seals have nothing extrinsical, like the proclamation of the living creatures, but they are sufficiently distinguished by their internal marks and characters. _When he opened the fifth s...
THE FIRST SEAL: THE WHITE HORSE (vv. 1-2) In the Lamb's opening of the seals our sight is transferred again to earth, but John does not return there. His vision is from heaven. The first seal (v. 1)...
_ 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”_ A. How long - is a question of pain. B. It is...
9-11 The sight the apostle beheld at the opening the fifth seal was very affecting. He saw the souls of the martyrs under the altar; at the foot of the altar in heaven, at the feet of Christ. Persecu...
AND THEY CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE; their blood cried, or their souls cried to God, SAYING, HOW LONG, O LORD, HOLY; and therefore thou canst not abide iniquity, and of all iniquity canst least abide inn...
Tertullian On Prayer cry in jealousy unto the Lord "How long, Lord, dost Thou not avenge our blood on the inhabitants of the earth? "[35] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XII and in the Apocalypse...
Revelation 6:10 And G2532 cried G2896 (G5707) loud G3173 voice G5456 saying G3004 (G5723) How G2193 long...
CHAPTER 6 THE OPENING OF THE FIRST SIX SEALS. The next stage of John's vision describes the opening of the seals by the Lamb, and it will soon be clear that the result is the outworking of world histo...
THE OPENING OF THE FIFTH SEAL (REVELATION 6:9). ‘And when he opened the fifth seal I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they...
With the beginning of this chapter we enter upon the fourth or leading section of the Apocalypse, extending to chap. Revelation 18:24. The section contains what had been described in chap. Revelation...
Revelation 6:10. AND THEY CRIED WITH A GREAT VOICE, SAYING, HOW LONG, O MASTER, THE HOLY AND TRUE, DOST THOU NOT JUDGE AND AVENGE OUR BLOOD ON THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH? ‘They' cried (yet not the m...
HOW LONG (εως ποτε). "Until when." Cf. Matthew 7:17; John 10:24.O MASTER (ο δεσποτης). Nominative articular form, but used as vocative (δεσποτα) as in Revelation 4:11 ...
CONTENTS: The opening of the seals. CHARACTERS: Christ, John. CONCLUSION: Woe to those who dwell upon the earth in the days of the great Tribulation, when the wrath of God is poured forth for the fin...
Revelation 6:1. _One of the living creatures,_ that is, the lion, with a voice roaring like thunder, said, _Come and see._ The saints must keep their eyes on what the Lord is doing in the earth. Revel...
HOW LONG? These souls shout in a loud voice, asking for vengeance! But did not Jesus ask God to forgive those who killed him? We answer, these souls do not ask for revenge, but they ask God's vengeanc...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 6:9 The FIFTH SEAL reveals the Lamb’s reason for devastating the earth. John sees the SOULS of believers SLAIN for bearing witness about Jesus (com
The fifth seal was opened and John saw the souls of those slain for the word of God, and the testimony which they held. Where were they? Under the altar in heaven, which doubtless means at the foot of...
CALAMITIES ON THE OPENING OF SIX SEALS _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ THE first catastrophe, or overthrow of the Jewish persecuting power, is the subject of chaps. 6–11. Some take the subject in a...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 6:1 AND I SAW. A new departure in the series of visions is marked (see on Revelation 4:1). We have here the commencement of the Revelation proper, to which the first five chapt...
_9 AND WHEN HE HAD OPENED THE FIFTH SEAL, I SAW UNDER THE ALTAR THE SOULS OF THEM THAT WERE SLAIN FOR THE WORD OF GOD, AND FOR THE TESTIMONY WHICH THEY HELD:_ _ 10 AND THEY CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, S...
Now in chapter six, He begins to open the scroll. And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four living creatures saying, Come and see. And...
1 Samuel 24:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:6; Daniel 12:6; Daniel 8:13;...
They cried [ε κ ρ α ζ ο ν]. See on Mark 5:5. How long [ε ω ς π ο τ ε]. Lit., until when. Compare Zechariah 1:12. O Lord [ο δ ε σ π ο τ η ς]. See on 2 Peter 2:1. Only here in Revelation. Addressed to...
THE OPENING OF THE SEALS Revelation 6:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS This study will discover unto us those events which will particularly mark the beginning of sorrows. There are four horse riders to be bro...
And they cried — This cry did not begin now, but under the first Roman persecution. The Romans themselves had already avenged the martyrs slain by the Jews on that whole nation. How long — They knew t...