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Rev 10:1. Καὶ, and) From ch. Rev 10:1, to ch. Rev 11:13, is a remarkable passage, in which there is a foretaste of the awful trumpet of the seventh angel. For while the dragon is even yet in heaven, and the beast with seven heads and the beast with two heads are about to ascend out of the sea and the earth, nor does there appear to be any end of calamities in the world: an angel, whom Cluver, T. iii. f. 4, acknowledges to be a created angel, lays his right hand upon heaven, his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth, showing, and affirming by an oath, that all these enemies [however they may rage, namely, the dragon in heaven, the beast in the sea and upon the earth.-V. g.], should notwithstanding be removed within a Chronus. [The heaven, he implies by his action, the earth and sea, belong to GOD, the Creator (Rev 10:6), and continue so.-V. g.] This passage has two parallel parts: ch. Rev 10:1-7, and Rev 10:8, ch. Rev 11:13. Whence also the two periods, time-no longer [no whole period any longer], and, a multitude of kings, are parallel: ch. Rev 10:6; Rev 10:11. Both periods begin before the close of the second woe, ch. Rev 11:14 : but, when they have once begun, they extend themselves far in a continued course to the very trumpet of the seventh angel, as far as that great goal, respecting which, ch. Rev 12:14. Therefore, on account of the continued connection with those circumstances, which precede the rising of the beast out of the sea, many things are here represented, without any interruption of the order of the book, which occur again at a much later portion of the book. Thus the consummation of the wrath of God, ch. Rev 15:1, precedes the joyful consummation of the mystery of God, ch. Rev 10:7 : and this consummation is pointed out as future even in ch. Rev 17:17. The ascent of the beast out of the bottomless pit, ch. Rev 11:7, is still future even in ch. Rev 17:8. That earthquake, by which the great city is divided into three parts, ch. Rev 16:19, precedes this earthquake, by which a tenth part of the same city falls, and the remnant are converted: ch. Rev 11:13. This observation is sure, and very necessary; and by its aid many and great errors, which are everywhere to be met with, are avoided.-ὡς στύλο πυρὸς) In the Septuagint, the pillar, by which the Israelites were led by night in the wilderness, is called στύλος πυρός. The feet of this angel, like pillars, were parallel as he stood; and round, of equal rotundity, as far as the sole. Comp. Eze 1:7.