Revelation 9:2 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

out of. App-104.

furnace. Compare Revelation 1:15. Indicating. place of fire, but not to be confused with Hades (Sheol) or with Tartarus. Compare Jeremiah 4:23-28, where the judgments are against Judah and the Land. Here, John sees them extended to the whole earth.

by reason of Greek. ek. App-104.

Revelation 9:2

2 And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.