6And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
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Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.
And death shall be chosen rather than life by all the residue of them that remain of this evil family, which remain in all the places whither I have driven them, saith the LORD of hosts.
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb:
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: the thorn and the thistle shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Upon the sounding of this trumpet, the things to be observed are, 1. A star falling from heaven to the earth . Some think this star represents some eminent bishop in the Christian church, some angel of the church; for, in the same way of speaking by which pastors are called stars, the church is called heaven; but who this is expositors do not agree. Some understand it of Boniface the third bishop…
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