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Into the sea (eis tēn thalassan). Like the first Egyptian plague (Exo 7:12 -41) though only the Nile affected then.
Blood as of a dead man (haima hōs nekrou). At the trumpet (Rev 8:11) the water becomes wormwood. Here hōs nekrou is added to Exo 7:14-24, “the picture of a murdered man weltering in his blood” (Swete). “Coagulated blood, fatal to animal life” (Moffatt).
Every living soul (pāsa psuchē zōēs). “Every soul of life” (Hebraism, Gen 1:21, marked by life).
Even the things that were in the sea (ta en tēi thalassēi). “The things in the sea,” in apposition with psuchē. Complete destruction, not partial as in Rev 8:9.