Revelation 9:15 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour,b and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. ”

Revelation 9:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

And the four angels were loosed - Who had this mighty host under restraint. The loosening of the angels was, in fact, also a letting loose of all these hosts, that they might accomplish the work...
Revelation 9:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

(13) And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. (13) The execution of the commandment is in two parts: o...
Revelation 9:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

The Sixth Trumpet or the Second Woe. The loosing of the four angels of death, and the slaughter of a third part of the human race. Revelation 9:13 . the horns: the corners. the golden altar:...
Revelation 9:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

were . had been. for. Greek. eis. App-104. an . the hour, day, month, year. . fixed point of time, not. period of duration. The four notes of time being under one article and one prepositio...
Revelation 9:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. For an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year - We have in t...
Revelation 9:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

The sixth angel sounded,— At the sounding of this sixth trumpet, a voice proceeded from the four horns of the golden altar (for the scene was still in the temple), ordering the angel of the six...
Revelation 9:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the four angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a...
Revelation 9:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Fifth and Sixth Trumpets These herald woes upon the ungodly and idolatrous, inflicted both by demonic and by human agency. 1-12. The fifth trumpet initiates the first of the three woes. A s...
Revelation 9:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

And the four angels... — Better, And there were loosed the four angels who had been made ready unto (or for, i.e., ready for) the (not “an hour,” but the) hour, and day, and month, and year,...
Revelation 9:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Impenitent in Spite of All Revelation 9:12-21 The river Euphrates possibly stands for nations and hordes of men emanating from that region; and these verses are held by a large number of exp...
Revelation 9:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

At the sounding of the fifth trumpet the procedure of judgment takes a new form, passing from the material to the spiritual. The loosing of Satan is suggestive of the manifestation of satanic agency...
Revelation 9:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

(13) And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, (14) Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which ar...
Revelation 9:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the four angels were loosed ,.... The time being come, fixed by the decrees of God, making use of the Turks for the destruction of the eastern empire, the restraints of divine Providence were ta...
Revelation 9:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. Ver. 15. And the four angels were loosed ] As fierce and f...
Revelation 9:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The sixth angel sounded , &c. At the sounding of the sixth trumpet, a voice proceeded from the four horns of the golden altar , (for the scene was still in the temple,) ordering the angel o...
Revelation 9:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

The Fifth Trumpet: A Demon Infestation (vv. 1-12) The sounding of the fifth trumpet discloses "a star fallen from heaven:" it is already fallen (v. 1). This is the same star that fell under...
Revelation 9:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Seventh Trumpet. A. D. 95. 13 And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the...
Revelation 9:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year; that is, say some, for any time whatsoever God would have them move; or for that certain time which God had determined; but Mr. Mede hath here a pec...
Revelation 9:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And the four angels were loosed who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year, that they should kill the third part of men.' God's timing is always exact. Here it is fixed with comp...
Revelation 9:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES Revelation 9:13 . Sixth angel sounded .—This woe is an invasion of foreign nations coming out of the East, and causing everywhere ruin and disaster. Revelation 9:...
Revelation 9:15 - Scofield Reference Notes

angels ( See Scofield) - ( Hebrews 1:4 ).
Revelation 9:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Revelation 9:15 The Triumph of Christianity. This book of the Apocalypse is confessedly one of those Scriptures that Scripture itself speaks of as "hard to be understood." Yet it must not on that...
Revelation 9:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:1 . The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star, the vile impostor Mahomed, fall from heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit: it should read, the ke...
Revelation 9:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Revelation 9:1 And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth; a star from heaven fallen unto the earth (Revised Version); not saw a star fal...
Revelation 9:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The sounding of the sixth trumpet:
Revelation 9:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 8:11 ; Revelation 8:12 ; Revelation 8:7 ; Revelation 8:9 ; Revelation 9:10 ; Revelation 9:18 ; Revelation 9:5
Revelation 9:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

And the four angels were loosed, who were prepared — By loosing them, as well as by their strength and rage. To kill the third part of men — That is, an immense number of them. For the hour, and da...

Revelation 9:15 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Revelation 9:15 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Revelation 9:15 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Revelation 9:15 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Revelation 9:15 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Revelation 9:15 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:15 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Revelation 9:15 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Revelation 9:15 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Revelation 9:15 - Scofield Reference Notes

Revelation 9:15 - Sermon Bible Commentary

Revelation 9:15 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Revelation 9:15 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Revelation 9:15 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Revelation 9:15 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Revelation 9:15 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes