Revelation:8

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* And (note :)He returns to the history of the seals of the book , which the Lamb opens . The seventh seal is the next sign , a precise commandment for the execution of the most severe judgment of God on this wicked world , and being understood by the seal , all things in heaven are silent , and in horror through admiration , until the command to act is given by God to the ministers of his wrath . So he moves to the third part which I spoke of before in ( Rev_6:1 ) which is the enacting of those evils with which God most justly determined to afflict the world .(:note ) when he had opened the seventh seal , there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour . * * * And the smoke of the incense , [which came ] with the prayers of the saints , (note :)Our prayers are worth nothing , unless the true and sweet savour of that only sacrifice be especially and before all things with them , that is to say , unless we are first of all justified through faith in his Son , acceptable to him .(:note ) ascended up before God out of the angel 's hand . * And the Angel tooke the censer , and filled it with fire of the altar , and cast it into the earth , and there were voyces , and thundrings , and lightnings , and earthquake . * * * * And the thirde part of the creatures , which were in the sea , and had life , died , and the thirde part of shippes were destroyed . * * And the name of the star is called (note :)This is spoken by metaphor of a commonly known bitter herb : unless perhaps a man following those that note the derivation of words would rather explain it as an adjective for that which cannot be drunk because of its bitterness , causing the liquid it is made into to be more bitter than any man can drink .(:note ) Wormwood : and the third part of the waters became wormwood ; and many men died of the waters , because they were made bitter . * *

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