Revelation 8:5 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

And. The seven "ands" give an instance of Figure of speech Polysyndeton. App-6.

filled. Greek. gemizo. Here and Revelation 15:8.

into. App-104.

earth. App-129.

earthquake. See Revelation 6:12. Here apparently. convulsion of earth alone.

Revelation Chapter s. and. present the six seals, the sixth carrying on to the end. The seventh seal contains. new series of judgments under the seven trumpets (Revelation 8:7; Revelation 8:11, Rev 8:14) and the seven vials (Revelation 16:1; Revelation 16:18; Revelation 16:21). The seventh seal thus embraces the period of both trumpets and vials (Revelation 8:7, Rev 8:18, Rev 8:24), and is immediately followed by the Apocalypse (Unveiling of "The Word of God": see App-197), the Son of Adam (App-99). The first six trumpets relate to the earth, the seventh to heaven (Revelation 11:15). The seven are divided into four and three, the last three being woe trumpets. The judgments and woes now to be set forth are just as real, as literal, as the judgments predicted and fulfilled in the past history of Israel; Exodus 34:10; Deuteronomy 28:10; Isaiah 11:15; Isaiah 11:16; Micah 7:13-15.

Revelation 8:5

5 And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it intob the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.