When he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature say, “Come!” And I looked, and behold, a black horse! And its rider had a pair of scales in his hand.
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 third seal,.... Of the sealed book: I heard the third beast say, come and see; this living creature was that which was like a man, who was on the south side of the throne, as the standard of Reuben, which had the figure of a man, was on the south side of the camp of Israel; this was not...
Verses 5, 6. And when he had opened the third seal. Unfolding another portion of the volume. . I heard the third beast say, Come and see. . It is not apparent why the third beast is represented as taking a particular interest in the opening of this seal, () nor is it necessary to show why it was so.