And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.
Ver. 2. Which stood before God] In a waiting posture, ready pressed to do his pleasure.
Seven trumpets] To be sounded several times, to show that God suffereth not his whole wrath to arise at once against his creatures, but piecemeal and by degrees; proving if peradventure they will repent and recover out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.