And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.
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Gill's Exposition
And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth,.... All the other inferior deities lost their esteem, worship, and honour; for the idol temples being now opened, the idols and statues were exposed to the…
And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal - See the notes at Rev 5:1; Rev 6:1. And, lo, there was a great earthquake - Before endeavoring to ascertain to what the sixth seal was designed to…
Adam Clarke
The stars of heaven - The gods and goddesses, demi-gods, and deified heroes, of their poetical and mythological heaven, were prostrated indiscriminately, and lay as useless as the figs or fruit of a…
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,…
Cambridge Bible
and the stars of heaven So still in Mat 24:29.
as a fig tree It is curious that a "parable of the fig-tree" follows in Mat 24:32, immediately after the "fall of the stars." But this image is taken,…
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