Adam Clarke Commentary - Revelation 6:9

Adam Clarke Commentary - Revelation 6:9 - 6:9

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Adam Clarke Commentary - Revelation 6:9 - 6:9

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This Chapter Verse Commentaries:

6:1 - 6:1
6:2 - 6:2
6:3 - 6:3
6:4 - 6:4
6:5 - 6:5
6:6 - 6:6
6:7 - 6:7
6:8 - 6:8
6:9 - 6:9
6:10 - 6:10
6:11 - 6:11
6:12 - 6:12
6:13 - 6:13
6:14 - 6:14
6:15 - 6:15
6:16 - 6:16
6:17 - 6:17

The fifth seal - There is no animal nor any other being to introduce this seal, nor does there appear to be any new event predicted; but the whole is intended to comfort the followers of God under their persecutions, and to encourage them to bear up under their distresses.

I saw under the altar - A symbolical vision was exhibited, in which he saw an altar; and under it the souls of those who had been slain for the word of God - martyred for their attachment to Christianity, are represented as being newly slain as victims to idolatry and superstition. The altar is upon earth, not in heaven.