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Taketh (eilēphen). Vivid dramatic perfect active indicative of lambanō as in Rev 5:7, “has taken.” The angel had apparently ]aid aside the censer. Hardly merely the pleonastic use of lambanō (Joh 19:23). John pictures the scene for us.
Filled (egemisen). He drops back to the narrative use of the first aorist active indicative of gemizō.
With the fire (ek tou puros), live coals from the altar (cf. Isa 6:6).
Cast (ebalen). Second aorist active indicative of ballō. See Gen 19:24 (Sodom); Eze 10:2 and Christ’s bold metaphor in Luk 12:49. See this use of ballō also in Rev 8:7; Rev 12:4, Rev 12:9, Rev 12:13; Rev 14:19.
Followed (egenonto). Came to pass naturally after the casting of fire on the earth. Same three elements in Rev 4:5, but in different order (lightnings, voices, thunders), lightning naturally preceding thunder as some MSS. have it here. Perhaps phōnai, the voices of the storm (wind, etc.).