Revelation:8:8-9
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Revelation:8:8 @{
As it were } (\
h
s \). "
As if ,"
not a great mountain ,
but a blazing mass as large as a mountain . {
Burning with fire } (\
puri kaiomenon \).
Present middle participle of \
kai \.
Somewhat like Enoch strkjv @
18:13 ,
but perhaps with the picture of a great volcanic eruption like that of Vesuvius in A .
D .
79 .
Strabo tells of an eruption B .
C .
196 which made a new island (
Palaea Kaumene ). {
Became blood } (\
egeneto haima \).
Like the Nile in the first plague (
Exodus:7:20ff .|).
Cf .
also strkjv @
16:3 |.
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Revelation:8:9 @{
Of the creatures } (\
t
n ktismat
n \).
See strkjv @
5:13 |
for this word \
ktisma \.
Even they that had life (\
ta echonta psuchas \).
Here the nominative articular participle is in apposition with the genitive \
ktismat
n \,
as often in this book .
See strkjv @
Exodus:7:20 |
for the destruction of fish ,
and strkjv @
Zephaniah:1:3 |. {
Was destroyed } (\
diephthar
san \).
Second aorist passive indicative of \
diaphtheir \,
old compound ,
to corrupt ,
to consume ,
to destroy (
perfective use of \
dia \),
also strkjv @
11:18 |.
The plural \
ploion \
just before the verb makes the idea plural .