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They told the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb,
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The Terror of God's Presence
Commentators highlight that the ultimate terror described is not death itself, but facing the presence of God. People cry for mountains to crush them because they would rather be annihilated than endure the gaze of the Holy God and the Lamb they rejected. As one scholar notes, "What sinners dread most is not death, but the revealed Presence of God."
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us. This language is found substantially in Hosea 10:8: And they shall say to the mountai…
They say (λεγουσιν). Vivid dramatic present active indicative, as is natural here.
Fall on us (Πεσατε εφ' …
19th Century
Anglican
And the kings . . .—Translate, And the kings of the earth, and the magnates, and the commanders of hosts, and the wealthy, and…
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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 said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us They chose death rather than life. Dioclesian being invited by Const…
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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