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1. ἄλλο σημεῖον. Besides those of Rev 12:1; Rev 12:3. Here preparation is made (as in Rev 8:2) for another sevenfold series of visions. Some have attempted to see a sevenfold series in the three preceding chapters—its elements being the successively appearing figures of the Woman, the Dragon, the Man Child, Michael, the Beast, the False Prophet, and the Lamb. But this seems rather far-fetched: at any rate, it is not likely to have been consciously present to St John’s mind.
πληγὰς ἑπτὰ τὰς ἐσχάτας. Literally “seven plagues, the last,” the fact that “in them is filled up [or rather “fulfilled, finished”] the wrath of God” is given as the reason why these plagues are the last.