And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
Red - the colour of blood. The colour of each horse answers to the mission of the rider. Compare Matthew 10:34-36. The white horse of the Conqueror is soon followed, through man's perversion of the Gospel, by the red horse of bloodshed: this is overruled to the clearing away of the obstacles to Christ's coming kingdom. The patient ox is the emblem of the second living creature, who, at the opening of this seal, saith, "Come." The saints, amidst judgments on the earth, in patience 'endure to the end.'
That they should kill, х sfaxoosin (G4969), 'Aleph (') B; but A C, sfaxousin (G4969), indicative future] - 'that they may, as they shall, kill one another.'