another out of Should be omitted: St John "heard the Altar" itself "say" what follows. Why the unusual image should be used of the Altar speaking, instead of a voice only coming from it (cf. Revelation 9:13), we cannot say: but perhaps Revelation 6:9 sqq. suggests why the Altar utters its Amen to God's vengeance on the persecutors.

Even so Yea, as in Revelation 1:7, &c.

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