Teks -- Revelation 6:14 (NET)

6:14 The sky was split apart like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Rev 6:14 - Was removed

Was removed ( apechōristhē ).

First aorist passive indicative of apochōrizō , to separate, to part (Act 15:39). "The heaven was parted."

Robertson: Rev 6:14 - As a scroll when it is rolled up

As a scroll when it is rolled up ( hōs biblion helissomenon ).

Present passive participle of helissō , old verb, to roll up, in N.T. only here (from Isa 34:4) and Heb 1:12 (from Psa 102:27). Vivid picture of the expanse of the sky rolled up and away as a papyrus roll (Luk 4:17).

Robertson: Rev 6:14 - Were moved

Were moved ( ekinēthēsan ).

First aorist passive indicative of kineō , to move.

Robertson: Rev 6:14 - Out of their places

Out of their places ( ek tōn topōn autōn ).

See also Rev 16:20 for these violent displacements in the earth’ s crust. Cf. Nah 1:5; Jer 4:24. Jesus spoke of faith removing mountains (of difficulty) as in Mar 11:23 (cf. 1Co 13:2).

Vincent: Rev 6:14 - Departed

Departed ( ἀπεχωρισθη )

The verb means to separate , sever . Rev., was removed .

Vincent: Rev 6:14 - Scroll

Scroll ( βιβλίον )

See on Luk 4:17. Compare Isa 34:4.

Vincent: Rev 6:14 - Mountain and island

Mountain and island

Compare Mat 24:35; Nah 1:5.

Wesley: Rev 6:14 - And the heavens departed as a book that is rolled together

When the scripture compares some very great with a little thing, the majesty and omnipotence of God, before whom great things are little, is highly exalted.

Wesley: Rev 6:14 - Every mountain and island

What a mountain is to the land, that an island is to the sea.

JFB: Rev 6:14 - departed

Greek, "was separated from" its place; "was made to depart." Not as ALFORD, "parted asunder"; for, on the contrary, it was rolled together as a scroll which had been open is rolled up and laid aside. There is no "asunder one from another" here in the Greek, as in Act 15:39, which ALFORD copies.

JFB: Rev 6:14 - mountain . . . moved out of . . . places

(Psa 121:1, Margin; Jer 3:23; Jer 4:24; Nah 1:5). This total disruption shall be the precursor of the new earth, just as the pre-Adamic convulsions prepared it for its present occupants.

Clarke: Rev 6:14 - And the heaven departed as a scroll

And the heaven departed as a scroll - The whole system of pagan and idolatrous worship, with all its spiritual, secular, and superstitious influence, was blasted, shrivelled up, and rendered null and void, as a parchment scroll when exposed to the action of a strong fire

Clarke: Rev 6:14 - And every mountain

And every mountain - All the props, supports, and dependencies of the empire, whether regal allies, tributary kings, dependent colonies, or mercenary troops, were all moved out of their places, so as to stand no longer in the same relation to that empire, and its worship, support, and maintenance, as they formerly did

Clarke: Rev 6:14 - And island

And island - The heathen temples, with their precincts and enclosures, cut off from the common people, and into which none could come but the privileged, may be here represented by islands, for the same reasons.

Defender: Rev 6:14 - departed as a scroll

This strange phenomenon (also predicted in Isa 34:4) may relate to the moving cloud of volcanic dust as it is rapidly carried across the sky, but an alternate possibility is that the global earthquake will cause the entire crust of the earth to shift, causing "every mountain and island" to be "moved out of their places" and the sky itself to appear to those on the earth's surface to "depart.""

TSK: Rev 6:14 - the heaven // and every

the heaven : Psa 102:26; Isa 34:4; Heb 1:11-13; 2Pe 3:10

and every : Rev 16:20; Isa 2:14-17; Jer 3:23, Jer 4:23-26, Jer 51:25; Hab 3:6, Hab 3:10

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Rev 6:14 - And every mountain and island were moved out of their places

Two expressions more signifying the same thing. The first is used by the prophet, to signify the change God would make in the state of the Edomites, Isa 34:4 , as will appear by comparing what that prophet saith, with what Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Obadiah say, upon the same argument, Jer 49:7-22 Eze 35:1-15 .

And every mountain and island were moved out of their places all sorts of people shall be destroyed, or all the paganish religion shall be rooted out.

PBC: Rev 6:14

The following passages from the history of Josephus, Book VI, Chapter IX, Section 5 best illustrates the fulfillment of these verses; After the Jews had been ejected from the towers [Josephus states] ." .. by God Himself, and fled immediately to that valley which is under Siloam, where they again recovered themselves out of the dread they were in for a while, and ran violently against that part of the Roman wall which lay on that side; but as their courage was too much depressed to make their attacks with sufficient force, and their power was now broken with fear and affliction, they were repulsed by the guards, and dispersing themselves at distances from each other, went down into the subterranean caverns." I believe that although they did not realize this to be the wrath of God and the Lamb, they fulfilled the Scripture in a figure. They fled to the caves to cover them from the oppressor whom God had sent for their destruction.— Eld. Charles Taylor

Haydock: Rev 6:14 - And every mountain

And every mountain. In the dreadful confusion of the Roman empire, in the time of Constantine, so great was the revolution, that mountains appeared, as it were, moved out of their places; islands shifted from their accustomed situations. We behold at one time seven persons, Maximin Galerius, Maxentius, Severus Cæsar, Maximin, Alexander, Maximin Hercules, and Licinius, all aiming at the empire. The first six perished in nine years, from 305 to 314: Licinius was strangled in 324. All these were enemies of the Christian religion. Constantine, who supported it, remained sole master of the empire. (Calmet)

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Gill: Rev 6:14 - And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together // And every mountain and island were moved out of their places

And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together,.... The manner of writing formerly was on rolls of parchment; hence the word volume is used for a book, which, when rolled up, the writing within could not be seen, not a syllable nor letter of it. In like manner the Roman empire, as Pagan, which was like a large sheet, or rather like the expanse or firmament of the heaven, stretched out over all the earth, was now, as to the Paganism of it, rolled up together, so that there were no more Heathen gods, nor Heathen priests; no more idolatry, and idolatrous worship of that kind were to be seen, and not so much as the names of Heathen gods to be heard of in the empire.

And every mountain and island were moved out of their places; by "every mountain" may be meant the places of idolatrous worship, which were usually upon mountains; see Jer 3:6; which were now shut up, or demolished, or used for Christian worship; and "every island" being moved also may show, that Paganism was not only rooted out of the provinces of the empire upon the continent, but out of the islands also; and the ecclesiastical history of these times informs us, that there were Christian churches in the isles, which enjoyed the Gospel free of persecution and distress; as in the isles of Cyprus, Crete, the Cyclades, Sardinia, Siciiy, Corsica, and in ours of England, Scotland, and Ireland ^o. Mr. Daubuz thinks, that as "mountains" design the temples of idols, "islands" signify the revenues of them, which were now taken away, and applied to other uses.