Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Revelation 16:1
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1. a great voice —namely, God's. These seven vials (the detailed expansion of the vintage, Revelation 14:18-20 ) being called "the last," must belong to the period just when the term of the beast's power has expired (whence reference is made in them all to the worshippers of the beast as the objects of the judgments), close to the end or coming of the Son of man. The first four are distinguished from the last three, just as in the case of the seven seals and the seven trumpets. The first four are more general, affecting the earth, the sea, springs, and the sun, not merely a portion of these natural bodies, as in the case of the trumpets, but the whole of them; the last three are more particular, affecting the throne of the beast, the Euphrates, and the grand consummation. Some of these particular judgments are set forth in detail in the seventeenth through twentieth chapters. out of the temple —B and Syriac omit. But A, C, Vulgate, and ANDREAS support the words. the vials —so Syriac and Coptic. But A, B, C, Vulgate, and ANDREAS read, "the seven vials." upon — Greek, "into." return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-2" class="com-number"
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