12And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood;
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
The earth shall quake before them; the heavens shall tremble: the sun and the moon shall be dark, and the stars shall withdraw their shining:
And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: …
But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, …
The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their shining.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 9-17)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 because the events here opened lay out of the sight, and…
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