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Upon the sun (epi ton hēlion). Not eis (into) as in Rev 16:2, Rev 16:3, Rev 16:4. The fourth trumpet (Rev 8:12) affected a third of the sun, moon, and stars with a plague of darkness, but here it is a plague of extreme heat.
To scorch with fire (kaumatisai en puri). First aorist active infinitive of kaumatizō, late (Plutarch, Epictetus) causative verb (from kauma, heat), in N.T. only here and Rev 16:9; Mat 13:6; Mar 4:6. The addition of en puri (in fire, with fire) intensifies the picture.