Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
Revelation 8:9
Verse Revelation 8:9. The third part of the ships were destroyed.] These judgments seem to be poured out upon some maritime nation, destroying much of its population, and much of its traffic.
Verse Revelation 8:9. The third part of the ships were destroyed.] These judgments seem to be poured out upon some maritime nation, destroying much of its population, and much of its traffic.
AND THE THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WERE IN THE SEA, AND HAD LIFE, DIED - The effect was as if one-third of all the fish in the sea were cut off. Of course this is not to be taken literally. It...
CHAPTER S 8:6-11:18 The Sounding of the Seven Trumpets _ 1. The first trumpet (Revelation 8:6)_ 2. The second trumpet (Revelation 8:8) 3. The third trumpet (Revelation 8:10) 4. The
THE FIRST FOUR TRUMPETS. The first four trumpets, like the first four seals, form a connected group, and differ in character from the last three. They affect chiefly the natural world, which they over...
THE SECOND TRUMPET. And the second angel sounded, and as it were. great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third part of the creatur...
The first angel sounded a blast on his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood and launched themselves on the dry land; and a third part of the dry land was burned up, and a third part...
THE SILENCE AND THE THUNDER OF PRAYER (Revelation 8:1-5)...
CREATURES. See Revelation 5:13. AND. which. LIFE. App-110 and App-170. Not only "living souls" (Genesis 2:19) _in_ the waters of the sea, but the "living souls" (Genesis 2:7) _on_ it....
8, 9. THE SECOND TRUMPET...
ΤῸ ΤΡΊΤΟΝ (pr.). א adds μέρος, the Latins everywhere have _tertia pars_. ΤΩ͂Ν ΚΤΙΣΜΆΤΩΝ ΤΩ͂Ν ἘΝ ΤΗ͂Ι ΘΑΛΆΣΣΗΙ, ΤᾺ ἜΧ. ΨΥΧΆΣ. Primas[296] reads _piscium_, but quotes from Tyc[297] _habentium animas_....
Revelation 8:2; Revelation 8:6 to Revelation 11:19. THE SEVEN TRUMPETS...
_THE FIRST TWO ANGELS SOUND REVELATION 8:7-9:_ This is not final judgment as only a third of everything is touched. These are warnings to call the wicked to repentance. The sounding of the first trump...
ΆΠΈΘΑΝΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΆΠΟΘΝΉΣΚΩ (G599) умирать, ΈΧΟΝΤΑ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΔΙΕΦΘΆΡΗΣΑΝ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΔΙΑΦΘΕΊΡΩ (G1311) губить, разрушать. Предложное сочетание перф...
AS IT WERE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING, &C.— In the style of prophesy, a _mountain_ signifies a kingdom, and the strength of it, its metropolis or capital city. See Jeremiah 30:24. Great disorders and co...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER VIII THE SEVENTH SEAL OPENED _Text (Revelation 8:1-13)_ 1 And when he opened the seventh seal, there followed a silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. 2 An...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 26 Text Revelation 8:8-9 8 And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became bloo...
_AND THE THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WERE IN THE SEA, AND HAD LIFE, DIED; AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED._ No JFB commentary on this verse....
__ Throne Section-The Trumpets 15 The fact that they perform priestly functions shows that they are of the priest nation. No other nation will have access to the temple (Exo_19:6; 1Pe_2:9; Rev_1:6)....
THE SEVENTH SEAL. THE FOUR TRUMPETS 1. The seventh seal is opened. Heaven waits in hushed awe for a brief period. REVELATION 8:2 TO REVELATION 11:19. The Seven Trumpets....
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 8 THE SEVENTH (7TH) *SEAL - REVELATION 8:1 V1 When the *Lamb opened the seventh (7th) *seal, there was silence in heaven for about h...
AND THE SECOND ANGEL... — Translate, _And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood; and the third p...
CHAPTER VI. THE FIRST SIX TRUMPETS. Revelation 8:1; Revelation 9:1. THE two consolatory visions of chap. 7 have closed, and the Seer returns to that opening of the seven Seals which had been interr...
A fiery mass, huge as a mountain, is flung into the sea a description which would recall the fiery volcanic bombs familiar to inhabitants of the Egean. The catastrophe includes, as in the first Egypti...
_The first four trumpets_....
The seventh seal includes the seven trumpets. What a contrast that pause must have been to the jubilant songs of the great multitude! In the Jewish temple, we are told, the musical instruments and cha...
The seventh and last seal on the scroll is broken. On earth uproar and strife follow as at Babel, but in heaven silence for half an hour. Then follows the sounding of trumpets initiating activities le...
Another calamity in nature is here used to describe a warning coming from God. Something like a great mountain on fire is cast into the sea and one-third is turned to blood, onethird of all creatures...
(8) And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood; (9) And the third part of the creatures which wer...
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 Seventh Seal I. INTRODUCTION A. During our study of chapter 6, (during the 5th seal), we caught a glimpse "of those who had been slain for the word of God and for the testimony which they held....
This at once distinguishes them from the heavenly worshipers; there is no temple there; the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple. He that sits on the throne tabernacles over these, as once ov...
AND THE THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WERE IN THE SEA,.... The fishes; by whom men are meant, the inhabitants of the Roman empire; see Ezekiel 29:4, where by fish the Targum understands mighty pri...
And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed. Ver. 9. _And the third part_] Heresy as a gangrene spreads and kills; as...
_And the second angel sounded, and, as it were, a great mountain burning with fire_ That is, a great warlike nation, or hero; for in the style of poetry, which is near akin to the style of prophecy, h...
THE THIRD PART-DIED; AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED; showing that great numbers would perish, business be suspended, and vast amounts of property be destroyed....
The sounding of the first and second trumpets:...
AND THE THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WERE IN THE SEA, AND HAD LIFE, DIED; AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SHIPS WERE DESTROYED. The first four trumpets set in motion forces of ruin whose destruction is...
THE SEVENTH SEAL OPENED: Introduction to the Trumpets The last of the seven seals is now opened (v. 1) and there is silence in heaven for about half an hour before John sees seven trumpets given to...
_9 And a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed._ A. The part of man, which is spiritual (soul or spirit), is destroyed. This is not saying that 33% of...
7-13 The first angel sounded the first trumpet, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood. A storm of heresies, a mixture of dreadful errors falling on the church, or a tempest of destructi...
Phrases all signifying the miserable catastrophe that should follow the destruction of this city, by the slaughter of men, the ruin of houses and towns in Italy, &c. History (as Mr. Mede showeth) exce...
Revelation 8:9 And G2532 third G5154 living G2192 (G5723) G5590 creatures G2938 in G3588 G1722 sea...
‘And the second angel sounded and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea, and the third part of the sea became blood, and the third part of creatures which were in the sea...
Revelation 8:8-9. These two verses contain the second trumpet, at the sounding of which what resembled a great mountain, AS IT WERE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE WAS EAST INTO THE SEA. There is n...
The first four Trumpets are evidently separated from the three which follow them , both by the words of Revelation 8:13 and by the fact that they refer to things of earth, while in the latter we are b...
OF THE CREATURES (των κτισματων). See Revelation 5:13 for this word κτισμα. Even they that had life (τα εχοντα ψυχας). Here the nominative articular participle is in apposition with the genitive κτι...
CONTENTS: Opening of the seventh seal from which seven trumpets come. Four of the trumpet judgments announced. CHARACTERS: John, seven angels, angel with censor. CONCLUSION: Woe to those who, by thei...
Revelation 8:1. _When he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour._ The holy prophets in receiving revelations sought to be silent, calm, and abstracted...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 8:2 A brief vision of God’s heavenly temple, focusing on a golden incense altar, opens a new cycle of seven visions, each of which is introduced by an angelic trumpet bla...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 8:6 Revelation’s third vision series (with a second interlude in Revelation 10:1) pictures judgments sent from heaven in response to the saints’ prayers. The fir
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 8:8 A GREAT MOUNTAIN, BURNING WITH FIRE, THROWN INTO THE SEA. The imagery echoes Jeremiah 51:25
These verses give us the sounding of four trumpets. As the four seals had a similarity in the four horses, so the four trumpets have a similarity, and may be considered together. At the sounding of th...
FOUR TRUMPET VOICES _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ Revelation 8:1. SEVENTH SEAL.—“The main visions give us more external aspects; the interposed visions show the inner and more spiritual aspects. Th...
EXPOSITION REVELATION 8:1 AND WHEN. Καὶ ὅταν, instead of καὶ ὅτε (as in the other seals), is read in A, C, and gives a certain indefiniteness which does not belong to any of the rest (Alford)....
_8 AND THE SECOND ANGEL SOUNDED, AND AS IT WERE A GREAT MOUNTAIN BURNING WITH FIRE WAS CAST INTO THE SEA: AND THE THIRD PART OF THE SEA BECAME BLOOD;_ _ 9 AND THE THIRD PART OF THE CREATURES WHICH WE...
And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour (Revelation 8:1). Silence can sometimes be an awesome thing, especially in a tremendous crowd of pe...
Exodus 7:21; Isaiah 2:16; Isaiah 23:1; Psalms 48:7; Revelation 16:3;...
Life [ψ υ χ α ς]. See on 3 John 1:2. Ships [π λ ο ι ω ν]. See on Luke 5:2....
THE SEVEN TRUMPETS Revelation 8:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The seventh seal. The sixth seal was opened in the closing statements of Revelation 6:1. The seventh chapter, which was studied in our last tw...
And the third part of the creatures that were in the sea — That is, of all sorts of men, of every station and degree. Died — By those merciless invaders. And the third part of the ships were destroyed...