for the great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?”
In the remaining part of this chapter we have the opening of the fifth and the sixth seals. I. The fifth seal. Here is no mention made of any one who called the apostle to make his observation, probably because the decorum of the vision was to be observed, and each of the four living creatures had discharged its duty of a monitor before, or...
Commenting on Revelation 6:9-17
For the great day of his wrath is come,.... The Vulgate Latin and Syriac versions read, "of their wrath"; both of him that sits upon the throne, and of the Lamb, against the Heathen gods and Heathen persecutors, in answer to the cry of the martyrs in Rev 6:9. And who shall be able to stand?
Verse 17. For the great day of his wrath is come. The threatening judgments would be so severe and awful that they would suppose that the end of the world was coming. And who shall be able to stand? To stand before him, or to withstand his judgments. (e) "the great day" (f) "who shall"