Her unripe figs (τους ολυνθους αυτης). An old word (Latin gro i) for figs that grow in winter and fall off in the spring wi…

The falling of the stars: And the stars of heaven fell to the earth. This language is derived from the poetic idea that the sky s…

(Verses 12-14) And I beheld . . . —Better, And I saw when He opened the sixth seal, and (omit “lo!”) a great shaking took plac…

Think of the contrast between this awful cry and the sentence we read just now: Then did they spit in his face. Mountains and rocks, f…

And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth
All the other inferior deities lost their esteem, worship, and honour; f…

When the sixth seal was opened, there was a great earthquake. The foundations of churches and states would be terribly shaken. Such bold figurative…