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In those days men will seek death, and will in no way find it. They will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
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A Fate Worse Than Death
The torment described is so extreme that people desperately seek death as an escape, but cannot find it. Commentators suggest this is more than physical pain; it's a spiritual or psychological agony, what one scholar calls the 'torment of an evil conscience.' Physical death offers no relief from this kind of suffering, which is inflicted by demonic forces on those without God's seal of protection.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And in those days shall men seek death, and so on. (See Barnes on Revelation 9:5).
It is very easy to conceive of such a state of t…
Men (ο ανθρωπο). Generic use of the article (men as a class).
Shall not find it (ου μη ευρησουσιν αυτον). …
19th Century
Anglican
And in those days . . .—Translate, And in those days men shall seek death, and shall not find it; and they shall yearn to die…
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The fifth trumpet: The first woe. John now focuses attention on the fifth and sixth trumpets (first and second woes) by giving more than twice the …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And in those days men shall seek death Or desire to die, as Job did:
and shall not find it
Upon the sounding of the fifth trumpet, a star fell from heaven to the earth. Having ceased to be a minister of Christ, he who is represented by th…
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