Revelation 8:13

an angel Read, an eagle: or more literally one eagle. But apparently there was a tendency in late Hebrew for the numeral to sink, as in modern languages, into a mere indefinite article; and here, and perhaps in one or two other places, we seem to have it so used in the N. T.: e.g. Matthew 8:19; Matthew 26:69, and probably Revelation 9:18.

through the midst of heaven Rather, in mid-heaven: it is a single compound word. It occurs again in Revelation 14:6; Revelation 19:17, and nowhere else in the N. T.: but in the later classical Greek it is not uncommon for the position of the sun at noonday. Yet the last of the places cited from this book, where all natural birds are said to fly "in mid-heaven," seems rather as if St John used it of the air, the space between earth and sky.

Woe, woe, woe We see by Revelation 9:12; Revelation 11:14 that three distinctwoes are meant, one for each of the three trumpets.