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The sky was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up. Every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
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Symbolic, Not Literal
Commentators widely agree that the sky rolling up and mountains moving are powerful symbols, not literal predictions. Drawing on Old Testament imagery (e.g., Isaiah 34:4), this language signifies a complete and total upheaval of the political and social order—the collapse of powers and institutions that once seemed as permanent as the heavens themselves.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The departing of the heavens: And the heaven departed as a scroll. That is, as a book or volume—biblion—rolled up. The heavens ar…
Was removed (απεχωρισθη). First aorist passive indicative of αποχωριζω, to separate, to part (Acts 15:39). "The heaven…
19th Century
Anglican
(Verses 12-14) And I beheld . . . —Better, And I saw when He opened the sixth seal, and (omit “lo!”) a great shaking took plac…
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Baptist
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…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together The manner of writing …
When the sixth seal was opened, there was a great earthquake. The foundations of churches and states would be terribly shaken. Such bold figurative…
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