Revelation 6:8 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

looked. saw, as Revelation 6:1.

pale. livid. Greek. chloros. in Revelation 8:7; Revelation 9:4.Mark 6:39, rendered "green".

and... Death. "Literally and the one sitting on (Greek. epano, first occ Matthew 2:9, "over") him, the name to him (is) Death.

Death. By Metonymy (of Effect) (App-6). pestilence. Famine is invariably followed by pestilence. Here, Death and Hades are personified. Compare Revelation 9:11.

Hell. App-131.

power. App-172.

fourth. See App-10.

beasts. wild beasts. Greek. therion. Occurs thirty-eight times in Rev., thirty-seven of "the beast". And here it may indicate the nations supporting "the beast". See Daniel 7 for the Divine description of "the powers" as "wild beasts".

Revelation 6:8

8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto themb over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.