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- Revelation
- Chapter 16
- Verse 4
And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.
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Gill's Exposition
And the third angel poured his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters,.... Which also is not to be literally understood of a stagnation of them, before the burning of the world; nor of the…
Barnes' Notes
And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters - This coincides also with the account of the sounding of the third trumpet Rev 8:10-11; “And the third angel sounded,…
Adam Clarke
Upon the rivers and fountains of waters - This is an allusion to the first Egyptian plague, Exo 7:20; and to those plagues in general there are allusions throughout this chapter. It is a sentiment of…
We had in the foregoing chapter the great and solemn preparation that was made for the pouring out of the vials; now we have the performance of that work. Here observe,
I. That, though every thing was…
Cambridge Bible
The Third Vial, Rev 16:4-7
4. the rivers … waters Rev 8:10; see on Rev 14:7.
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