Lectionary Calendar
Wednesday, May 8th, 2024
Eve of Ascension
Eve of Ascension
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Bible Commentaries
Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible Coffman's Commentaries
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Revelation 6:15 — the time sequence to this judgment scene. "It is isolated in form and content from its context."[63] The whole of Revelation 7 may therefore be understood as a parenthetic interruption of the terrible judgment scene for the purpose of comforting the faithful. More about this apparent dislocation of Revelation 7 will be given in the notes on it; but we are including here Moffatt's words on the design of it:
It is a consoling rhapsody or rapture designed to relieve the tension by lifting the eyes
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