After this (μετα τουτο). Instead of the seventh seal (8:1) being opened, two other episodes or preliminary visions occupy chapter …

CHAPTER VII

ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTER

The state of things represented in this chapter is that where there had been awful consternation …

And after these things... Better, And after this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding fast the…

And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should n…

And after these things
After the opening of six of the seals of the sealed book, and after the demolition of Heathen…

In the figurative language of Scripture, the blowing of the four winds together means a dreadful and general destruction. But the destruction is de…