Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 8:2 - 8:2

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Stand (hestēkasin). Perfect active of histēmi (intransitive). Another “hebdomad” so frequent in the Apocalypse. The article (the seven angels) seems to point to seven well-known angels. In Enoch 20:7 the names of seven archangels are given (Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Sariel, Gabriel, Remiel) and “angels of the Presence” is an idea like that in Isa 63:9. We do not know precisely what is John’s idea here.

Seven trumpets (hepta salpigges). We see trumpets assigned to angels in Mat 24:31; 1Th 4:16; 1Co 15:52; Rev 4:1, Rev 4:4. See also the use of trumpets in Jos 6:13; Joe 2:1. These seven trumpets are soon to break the half hour of silence. Thus the seven trumpets grow out of the opening of the seventh seal, however that fact is to be interpreted.