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A Just Recompense
Commentators unanimously highlight that this judgment demonstrates God's perfect justice. The punishment directly fits the crime: because the persecutors "poured out the blood of the saints and the prophets," they are given blood to drink. Scholars refer to this as the "law of retaliation" or a "measure for measure" judgment, affirming that God's actions are a righteous and fitting response to the shedding of innocent blood.
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Albert Barnes
On Revelation 16:6
18th Century
Theologian
For they have shed the blood of saints. The nations here referred to. They have been engaged in scenes of bloody persecution, and this is …
AT Robertson
On Revelation 16:6
For (οτ). Second causal conjunction (οτ) explanatory of the first οτ, like the two cases of οτ in 15:4.
They poured…
Charles Ellicott
On Revelation 16:6
19th Century
Bishop
For they have shed . . .—Better, Because they shed (not, “have shed,” but did shed, or pour out
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Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Revelation 16:6
Here the reference to blood calls forth the dialogue between the angel and the altar concerning the logic of the plagues. The blood that sinners dr…
John Gill
On Revelation 16:6
17th Century
Pastor
For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets
Which shows that rivers and fountains cannot be literally unders…
Matthew Henry
On Revelation 16:1–7
17th Century
Minister
We are to pray that the will of God may be done on earth as it is done in heaven.
Here is a succession of terrible judgments of Providence, …