Revelation 8:5

and cast it Probably cast the censer full of burning coals, but possibly only "scattered the fire," as Numbers 16:37. The meaning must be, to represent the same instrument as obtaining God's mercy on His people, and executing His vengeance on His enemies: cf. Ezekiel 10:2.

there were voices, &c. "Voices" and "thunders" should be transposed. We have similar signs in Revelation 11:19; Revelation 16:18, when the series of the seven trumpets and the seven vials respectively are ended: hence perhaps it is here rather than earlier that we are to look for the conclusion of the visions of the seven seals.