And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
Ver. 1. Go your ways] A proof of the divine calling of the ministers of the gospel. This commission came out of the temple, as obtained by the prayers of the saints.
Pour out the vials] See Trapp on " Rev 15:7 "
Upon the earth] Upon Antichrist and his adherents, Roma facta est ex aurea ferrea, ex ferrea terrea, Rome was made from golden to iron and from iron to dirt, said one of her own favourites. It is said, Revelation 12:16, that the earth helped the woman; and yet here that the vials of God's wrath were poured out upon the earth; to teach us, saith one, that men may be useful for the public, and yet not freed from God's wrath. But that by-the-by only.