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Pale (χλωρὸς)
Only in Revelation, except Mar 6:39. Properly, greenish-yellow, like young grass or unripe wheat. Homer applies it to honey, and Sophocles to the sand. Generally, pale, pallid. Used of a mist, of sea-water, of a pale or bilious complexion. Thucydides uses it of the appearance of persons stricken with the plague (ii., 49). In Homer it is used of the paleness of the face from fear, and so as directly descriptive of fear (“Iliad,” x., 376; xv., 4). Of olive wood (“Odyssey,” ix., 320, 379) of which the bark is gray. Gladstone says that in Homer it indicates rather the absence than the presence of definite color. In the New Testament, always rendered green, except here. See Mar 6:39; Rev 8:7; Rev 9:14.
Hell
Properly, Hades. The realm of the dead personified. See on Mat 16:18.
Power (ἐξουσία)
See on Mar 2:10; see on 2Pe 2:11. Rev., better, authority.
With the sword (ἐν ῥομφαίᾳ)
Another word for sword. Compare Rev 6:4, and see on Luk 2:35.
With death (ἐι θανάτῳ)
Or pestilence. The Hebrew deber, pestilence, is rendered by the Greek word for death in the Septuagint. See Jer 14:12; Jer 21:7. Compare the term black-death applied to an Oriental plague which raged in the fourteenth century.
With the beasts (ὑπὸ τῶν θηρίων)
Rev., by. The preposition ὑπό by is used here instead of ἐν in or with, indicating more definitely the actual agent of destruction; while ἐν denotes the element in which the destruction takes place, and gives a general indication of the manner in which it was wrought. With these four judgments compare Eze 14:21.