And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,
A voice - `one voice.'
From - `out of.'
The four horns. So B, Cyprian; but A, Vulgate (Amiatinus manuscript), Coptic, Syriac, omit "four." The four horns together uttered their voice, not diverse, but one. God's revelation (e.g., the Gospel), though in its aspects fourfold (expressing worldwide extension: whence the evangelists are four), still has one and the same voice. However, from the parallelism of this sixth trumpet to the fifth seal (Revelation 6:9-10), the martyrs' cry for avenging their blood from the altar reaching its consummation under the sixth seal and sixth trumpet, I prefer understanding this cry from the four corners of the altars, to mean the saints' cry from the four quarters of the world, incensed by the angel, ascending to God from the golden altar of incense, and bringing down fiery judgments. 'Aleph (') omits the clause, 'one from the four horns.'