12And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
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Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates.
Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay.
I will make waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-16)The sixth angel poured out his vial ; and observe, I. Where it fell— upon the great river Euphrates . Some take it literally, for the place where the Turkish power and empire began; and they think this is a prophecy of the destruction of the Turkish monarchy and of idolatry, which they suppose will be effected about the same time with that of the papacy, as another antichrist, and that thereby a w…
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