Teks -- Revelation 8:6 (NET)

8:6 Now the seven angels holding the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

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

Robertson: Rev 8:6 - Prepared themselves

Prepared themselves ( hētoimasan hautous ).

First aorist active indicative of hetoimazō . They knew the signal and got ready.

Robertson: Rev 8:6 - To sound

To sound ( hina salpisōsin ).

Sub-final (object) clause with hina and the first aorist ingressive active subjunctive of salpizō . The infinitive could have been used.

Vincent: Rev 8:6 - To sound

To sound ( ἵνα σαλπίσωσιν )

Lit., that they should blow the trumpets . Raised their trumpets to their mouths in act to blow.

Wesley: Rev 8:6 - And the seven angels prepared themselves to sound

That each, when it should come to his turn, might sound without delay. But while they do sound, they still stand before God.

JFB: Rev 8:6 - sound

Blow the trumpets.

Clarke: Rev 8:6 - Prepared themselves to sound

Prepared themselves to sound - Each took up his trumpet, and stood prepared to blow his blast. Wars are here indicated; the trumpet was the emblem of war.

TSK: Rev 8:6

Rev 8:2

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

Poole: Rev 8:6

The angels are God’ s ministers, by which he bringeth his counsels to pass in the world: they hearing the thunderings and voices, knew the time was come when they were to begin the execution of God’ s judgments upon the earth; the execution of which was intrusted to them, and they are therefore set out (though they be always ready) after the manner of men, preparing themselves to execute what God had intrusted them with the execution of.

PBC: Rev 8:6

God always makes preparation for things which are most important with Him.— Eld. Charles Taylor

Gill: Rev 8:6 - And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets // prepared themselves to sound

And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets,.... Given them, Rev 8:2;

prepared themselves to sound; they stood up, took their trumpets in their hands, and put them to their mouths; this was giving notice of what was coming upon the earth, and a kind of warning to men, and a call upon them to repentance, and to prepare to meet God in the way of his judgments. The time when these trumpets began to blow was after the opening of the seventh seal, and so after the destruction of the empire as Pagan, which was under the sixth seal; and after that peace and rest from persecution in Constantine's time, signified by the half hour's silence in heaven; and after the prayers of the saints for vengeance, because of their blood shed in the time of Rome Pagan, were offered up, heard, taken notice of, and accepted; and therefore cannot regard, nor have any concern with the state of the church before Constantine's time, as some have thought the three first trumpets had; the first introducing the contradictions and blasphemies of the Jews, and their persecutions of the Christians, and the effusion of their blood by them; the second the ten persecutions under the Heathen emperors; and the third, the errors and heresies which pestered the churches of those times: nor indeed do they concern the state of the church at all; though it seems much more likely that the first four trumpets should bring in; as others have thought, the several heresies of Arius, Macedonius, Pelagius, and Eutyches, which sprung up before the rise of Mahomet, who appears under the fifth trumpet. But all the six trumpets have to do with the empire as Christian; for as the six seals are so many steps towards the destruction of the empire as Pagan, and the vials bring on the ruin of Rome Papal; so the six trumpets are so many gradual advances to the ruin of the empire, now Christian: and it must be observed, that the Emperor Theodosius, at his death, left the empire divided between his two sons, Arcadius and Honorius, the eastern part of it, which had Constantinople for its seat, to the former, and the western part of it, which had Rome for its seat, to the latter; now the first four trumpets bring in a barbarous people out of the north, the Goths, Huns, and Vandals, into the western part, who, by various incursions and wars, at last utterly destroy it; and the fifth and sixth trumpets bring in the Saracens under Mahomet, and the Turks into the eastern part, who took possession of that, and have kept it unto this day. (This was published in 1747, Ed.) A preparation being made, the angels begin to sound their trumpets.