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 phenomenon of a volcano: of the two, St John is likelier to have seen one than Jeremiah. Volcanoes are almost always near the sea.

became blood This plague, like the last, reminds us of one of the plagues of Egypt, Exodus 7:17 sqq.

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