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Another sign in heaven (allo sēmeion en tōi ouranōi). Looking back to Rev 12:1, Rev 12:3, after the series intervening. The Seven Bowls are parallel with the Seven Seals (ch. Rev 6) and the Seven Trumpets (chapters Rev 8-11), but there is an even closer connection with chapters Rev 12-14, “the drama of the long conflict between the church and the world” (Swete).
Great and marvellous (mega kai thaumaston). Thaumastos is an old verbal adjective (from thaumazō, to wonder) and is already in Mat 21:42. The wonder extends to the end of this vision or sign (Rev 16:21).
Seven angels (aggelous hepta). Accusative case in apposition with sēmeion after eidon. Cf. Rev 8:2.
Which are the last (tas eschatas). “Seven plagues the last.” As in Rev 21:9, “the final cycle of such visitations” (Swete).
Is finished (etelesthē). Proleptic prophetic first aorist passive indicative of teleō as in Rev 10:7. The number seven seems particularly appropriate here for finality and completeness.