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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 6:12 - 6:12
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As Rev 6:4, Rev 6:6-8, the sword, famine, and pestilence, answer to Mat 24:6, Mat 24:7; Rev 6:9, Rev 6:10, as to martyrdoms, answer to Mat 24:9, Mat 24:10; so this passage, Rev 6:12, Rev 6:17, answers to Mat 24:29, Mat 24:30, “the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven; ... then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming”; imagery describing the portents of the immediate coming of the day of the Lord; but not the coming itself until the elect are sealed, and the judgments invoked by the martyrs descend on the earth, the sea, and the trees (Rev 7:1-3).
and, lo - So A reads. But B and C omit “lo.”
earthquake - Greek, “shaking” of the heavens, the sea, and the dry land; the shaking of these mutable things being the necessary preliminary to the setting up of those things which cannot be shaken. This is one of the catchwords [Wordsworth] connecting the sixth seal with the sixth trumpet (Rev 11:13) and the seventh vial (Rev 16:17-21); also the seventh seal (Rev 8:5).
sackcloth - One kind, made of the “hair” of Cilician goats, was called “cilicium,” or Cilician cloth, and was used for tents, etc. Paul, a Cilician, made such tents (Act 18:3).
moon - A, B, C, and oldest versions read, “the whole moon”; the full moon; not merely the crescent moon.
as blood - (Joe 2:31).