And when the Lamb opened the second seal, I heard the second living creature say, “Come!”
The next three seals give us a sad prospect of great and desolating judgments with which God punishes those who either refuse or abuse the everlasting gospel. Though some understand them of the persecutions that befell the church of Christ, and others of the destruction of the Jews, they rather seem more generally to represent God's terrible judgments, by which he avenges the quarrel of...
Commenting on Revelation 6:3-8
And when he had opened the second seal,.... Of the sealed book; that is, the Lamb, as before: I heard the second beast say, come and see; this living creature was the ox, whose situation was on the west side of the throne, as the standard of Ephraim, on which was an ox, was on the west of the camp of Israel; no mention is...
Verse 3. And when he had opened the second seal. So as to disclose another portion of the volume. . I heard the second beast say. The second beast was like a calf or an ox. . It cannot be supposed that there is any special significancy in the fact that the second beast addressed the seer on the opening of the second seal, or...