Teks -- Revelation 16:6 (NET)

16:6 because they poured out the blood of your saints and prophets, so you have given them blood to drink. They got what they deserved!”

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

Robertson: Rev 16:6 - For

For ( hoti ).

Second causal conjunction (hoti ) explanatory of the first hoti , like the two cases of hoti in Rev 15:4.

Robertson: Rev 16:6 - They poured out

They poured out ( exechean ).

Second aorist active indicative of ekcheō with ̇an instead of ̇on .

Robertson: Rev 16:6 - Blood hast thou given them to drink

Blood hast thou given them to drink ( haima autois dedōkas pein ).

Haima (blood) is the emphatic word, measure for measure for shedding the blood of saints and prophets (Rev 11:18; Rev 18:24). Perfect active indicative of didōmi , and so a permanent and just punishment. Pein is the abbreviated second aorist active infinitive of pinō for piein (epion ). It is the epexegetical infinitive after dedōkas . There was no more drinking-water, but only this coagulated blood.

Robertson: Rev 16:6 - They are worthy

They are worthy ( axioi eisin ).

"Terrible antithesis"(Swete) to Rev 3:4. The asyndeton adds to it (Alford).

Vincent: Rev 16:6 - For they are worthy

For they are worthy

Omit for .

Wesley: Rev 16:6 - Thou host given then, blood to drink

Men do not drink out of the sea, but out of fountains and rivers. Therefore this is fitly added here.

Wesley: Rev 16:6 - They are worthy

Is subjoined with a beautiful abruptness.

JFB: Rev 16:6

(Rev 11:18, end; Gen 9:6; Isa 49:26.) An anticipation of Rev 18:20, Rev 18:24; compare Rev 13:15.

JFB: Rev 16:6 - For

A, B, C, and ANDREAS omit.

Clarke: Rev 16:6 - Thou hast given them blood to drink

Thou hast given them blood to drink - They thirsted after blood and massacred the saints of God; and now they have got blood to drink! It is said that when Tomyris, queen of the Scythians, had vanquished Cyrus, she cut off his head and threw it into a vessel of blood, saying these words: Satia te sanguine, quem sitisti, cujusque insatiabilis semper fuisti ; "Satisfy thyself with blood, for which thou hast thirsted, and for which thy desire has been insatiable."See Justin. Hist., lib. i. c. 8. This figure of speech is called sarcasm in rhetoric

"Sarcasmus with this biting taunt doth kill

Cyrus, thy thirst was blood; now drink thy fill."

Defender: Rev 16:6 - blood to drink

Evidently the 3 1/2 year drought will have been partly lifted with the death of the two witnesses who had called for it (Rev 11:6, Rev 11:19). There is still fresh water in the rivers and springs, but now these will also be turned into blood. Men will still be able to drink this water (Rev 16:6), but it will be bitter and nauseous, no matter what treatments can be applied to it."

TSK: Rev 16:6 - they have // for they are

they have : Rev 6:10,Rev 6:11, Rev 13:10,Rev 13:15, Rev 17:6, Rev 17:7, Rev 18:24, Rev 19:2; Deu 32:42, Deu 32:43; 2Ki 24:4; Isa 49:26, Isa 51:22, Isa 51:23; Jer 2:30; Lam 4:13; Mat 7:2, Mat 21:35-41, Mat 23:30-37

for they are : Rev 11:18, Rev 18:20; Jer 26:11, Jer 26:16; Luk 12:48; Heb 10:29

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

Poole: Rev 16:6

Because of their persecutions of, and cruelty towards, God’ s faithful ministers and people, which rendered the spilling of their blood but a condign punishment suited to their sin.

PBC: Rev 16:6

The blood[1] of the saints and prophets was required of Jerusalem.— Eld. Charles Taylor

[1] Mt 23:35 That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. (These are the words of Jesus to Jerusalem.)

Gill: Rev 16:6 - For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets // And thou hast given them blood to drink // for they are worthy

For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets,.... Which shows that rivers and fountains cannot be literally understood, but men are designed, wicked and bloody men; and it is notorious to all, how much of the blood of the saints, of the preachers of the Gospel, of the prophets and witnesses, have been shed in Italy, Savoy, and other places near Rome, as well as in Rome itself; see Rev 17:6.

And thou hast given them blood to drink; sent the sword among them, making great slaughter and devastation; see Isa 49:26

for they are worthy; or deserving, to have their blood shed by the law of retaliation.