Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 9:14 - 9:14

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Robertson Word Pictures - Revelation 9:14 - 9:14


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One saying to the sixth angel (legonta tōi hektōi). Accusative masculine singular active participle of legō, personifying phōnēn and agreeing with it in case, though not in gender. This voice speaks to the sixth angel (dative case).

Which had the trumpet (ho echōn tēn salpigga). Nominative case in apposition with aggelōi (dative), the same anomalous phenomenon in Rev 2:20; Rev 3:12; Rev 14:12. Swete treats it as a parenthesis, like Rev 4:1; Rev 11:15.

Loose (luson). First aorist (ingressive) active imperative of luō, “let loose.” Another group of four angels (Rev 7:1) like Act 12:4, described here “which are bound” (tous dedemenous). Perfect passive articular participle of deō, evidently the leaders of the demonic horsemen (Rev 9:15.) as the four angels let loose the demonic locusts (Rev 7:1.), both quaternions agents of God’s wrath.

At the great river Euphrates (epi tōi potamōi tōi megalōi Euphratēi). A regular epithet of the Euphrates (Rev 16:12; Gen 15:18; Deu 1:7). It rises in Armenia and joins the Tigris in lower Babylonia, a total length of nearly 1800 miles, the eastern boundary of the Roman Empire next to Parthia.