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Revelation 16:8
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The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun. It was allowed to scorch people with fire,
And the fourth Angel powred out his viall vpon the Sunne, and power was giuen vnto him to scorch men with fire.
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given unto him to scorch men with fire.
And the fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given power to scorch people with fire.
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and he was given power to burn the people with fire.
The fourth Angel poured his bowl on the sun: Fire blazed from the sun and scorched men and women. Burned and blistered, they cursed God's Name, the God behind these disasters. They refused to repent, refused to honor God.
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.
The fourth angel poured out his bowl upon the sun, and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.
Next, the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given power to scorch the people with fire.
The fourth angel emptied his bowl on the sun, and it began to scorch people like fire.
The fourth one poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to burn people with fire.
And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun; and it was given to it to burn men with fire.
The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun. The sun was given power to burn the people with fire.
And the fourth Angel powred out his viall on the sunne, and it was giuen vnto him to torment men with heate of fire,
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given to him to scorch men with fire.
Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to burn people with its fiery heat.
And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was granted to it to burn up people with fire.
And the fourth angel poured out his bowl onto the sun. And it was given to him to burn men with fire.
And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire.
And the fourth let what was in his vessel come out on the sun; and power was given to it that men might be burned with fire.
The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
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And the fourth poured out his vial upon the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire;
And the fourth poured his cup upon the sun: and it was permitted him, to scorch men with fire.
And the fourth angell powred out his viall on the sunne, & power was geuen vnto hym to vexe men with heate of fyre.
And the fourth poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given unto it to scorch men with fire.
The fourth poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was given to him to scorch men with fire.
And the fourth poured out his phial upon the sun; and it was given him to scorch the men with fire.
Then the fourth angel poured his bowl on to the sun, and power was given to it to scorch men with fire.
And the fourthe aungel schedde out his viol in to the sunne, and it was youun to hym to turmente men with heete and fier.
And the fourth poured out his bowl on the sun; and it was given to it to scorch men with fire.
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given to him to scorch men with fire.
Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was permitted to scorch people with fire.
Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and power was given to him to scorch men with fire.
Then the fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, causing it to scorch everyone with its fire.
The fourth angel poured out his jar of God's anger onto the sun. It was allowed to burn men with its fire.
The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire;
And, the fourth, poured out his bowl upon the sun; and it was given unto it, to scorch mankind with fire;
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire.
The fourth angel poured his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch men with fire;
And the fourth angell poured out his viall on the sunne and power was geve vnto him to vexe men with heate of fyre.
And the fourth messenger did pour out his vial upon the sun, and there was given to him to scorch men with fire,
And the fourth angell poured out his viall on the Sonne, and power was geuen vnto him to vexe men with heate of fyre.
The FOURTH angel poured out his vial upon the sun; and power was given to him to scorch mankind with its fire.
The fourth angel stepped forth and poured his bowl upon the sun. The sun's fire intensified and
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
upon: Revelation 6:12, Revelation 8:12, Revelation 9:2, Isaiah 24:23, Luke 21:25, Acts 2:20
and power: Revelation 7:16, Revelation 9:17, Revelation 9:18, Revelation 14:18, Jonah 4:8, Matthew 13:6
Reciprocal: Genesis 1:16 - to rule Joshua 10:13 - So the sun Psalms 140:10 - burning coals Psalms 148:8 - Fire Isaiah 1:5 - ye will Nahum 1:6 - his fury Revelation 9:20 - yet Revelation 22:11 - that is unjust
Cross-References
But the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, "Where are you?"
The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice].
Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had not borne him any children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.
So Sarai said to Abram, "See here, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. I am asking you to go in to [the bed of] my maid [so that she may bear you a child]; perhaps I will obtain children by her." And Abram listened to Sarai and did as she said.
He went in to [the bed of] Hagar, and she conceived; and when she realized that she had conceived, she looked with contempt on her mistress [regarding Sarai as insignificant because of her infertility].
Then Sarai said to Abram, "May [the responsibility for] the wrong done to me [by the arrogant behavior of Hagar] be upon you. I gave my maid into your arms, and when she realized that she had conceived, I was despised and looked on with disrespect. May the LORD judge [who has done right] between you and me."
And He said, "Hagar, Sarai's maid, where did you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am running away from my mistress Sarai."
"Now therefore, please let my lord the king hear the words of his servant. If the LORD has incited you against me, let Him accept an offering [from me]; but if it is men, may they be cursed before the LORD, because they have driven me out this day to keep me from sharing in the inheritance of the LORD, saying, 'Go, serve other gods.'
If the temper of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post [showing resistance], because composure and calmness prevent great offenses.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun,.... Not literally; and so designs not a violent heat, which shall go before, and be a preparation for the burning of the world; nor any sore famine arising from it, which would be common to all, good and bad; but mystically: some understand this of Christ, the sun of righteousness, not of any wrath that shall be poured forth on him again, being now justified in the Spirit; but either of that clear shining of Christ in the ministry of the word, in those times this vial refers to; when Zion's light will be come, and the light of the sun will be seven fold, and Christ alone will be exalted; which clear ministration of Christ, though it will not savingly enlighten, yet will convict and confound the antichristian party; they will be scorched with the beams of heat and light, which will dart from hence; these will torture them, and fill them with envy, rage, and malice, because they will not be able to obscure this light, or stop the progress of it; they themselves will be so enlightened by it, as to see and know the truth of Christ's person, and offices, and grace, and yet will sin against it, and so be guilty of blasphemy against the Spirit of God, a sin which will greatly prevail among them; and they will, like the clay, be the more hardened by this light and heat, and will not repent of their sins and errors, nor confess them, nor own the light and conviction they have received: or else of the wrath of Christ, which he will be moved by this angel to stir up against the antichristian party, and which they will be sensible of, and be fearfully looking for. Others, and which comes much to the same sense, understand this of the Scriptures, the fountain of spiritual light, and of the clear interpretation of them in those times; when the watchmen shall see eye to eye, and when the day shall declare and make manifest every man's work, and the fire reveal and try it; and the same effects upon the antichristian party shall follow as before: but I rather think this refers to some part of the antichristian state, as in the other vials, or to something belonging to it; some have thought that the house of Austria, the chief family in the empire, or the king of Spain, or the emperor, who were both formerly of that house, or Germany itself, is meant; but the empire, as we have seen, seems to be designed by the earth in the first vial; wherefore, rather as the smiting of the third part of the sun, moon, and stars, under the fourth trumpet, signifies the utter extirpation of the Roman emperor, and all other Roman magistrates, who were the sun, moon, and stars in that empire; so this vial upon the sun refers to the pope, and his creatures, the cardinals, c. who is the sun in the antichristian kingdom and this angel may design the kings of the earth, who will be stirred up against him, by whom he and his dependents will suffer sorely, if not destroyed.
And power was given unto him to scorch men with fire; which may either respect the burning of Rome, and the adjacent parts; or rather the filling of the antichristian party with rage and malice, at the destruction of the pope, and his creatures; for these men are the same with those in Revelation 16:2.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun - Toward the sun, or so as to reach the sun. The effect was as if it had been poured upon the sun, giving it an intense heat, and thus inflicting a severe judgment upon people. This corresponds also with the fourth trumpet Revelation 8:12, where it is said, that the “third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars.” For the general meaning of this symbol see the notes on that place. The idea is, that a scene of calamity and woe would occur as if the sun should be made to pour forth such intense heat that people would be “scorched.” It cannot be supposed that the sun would be literally made hotter, or that the exact nature of these calamities would be that people would be consumed by its rays.
And power was given unto him - To the sun. The meaning is, that a calamity would follow as if such an increased power should be given to its rays.
To scorch men with fire - Literally, “And it was given him to scorch men with fire” - that is, with heat so great that it seemed to be fire. The Greek word - καυματίσαι kaumatisai - meaning “to burn, to scorch” - is used in the New Testament only in Matthew 13:6; Mark 4:6; Revelation 16:8-9, in all which places it is rendered “scorch” and “scorched.” Compare, however, the use of the word καῦμα kauma, in Revelation 7:16; Revelation 16:9; καῦσις kausis, in Hebrews 6:8; καυσόω kausoō, in 1 Peter 3:10, 1 Peter 3:12; and καύσων kausōn, in Matthew 20:12; Luke 12:55; James 1:11. The notion of intense or consuming heat is implied in all the forms of the word; and the reference here is to some calamity that would be well represented by such an increased heat of the sun.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Revelation 16:8. Poured out his vial upon the sun — Mr. Robert Fleming, more than one hundred years ago, in his View of Scripture Prophecy, supposed that the sun here meant the French empire, and conjectured that this vial would be poured out on that empire about the year 1794. And it is remarkable that in 1793 the French king was beheaded by the National Assembly; and great and unparalleled miseries fell upon the French nation, which nearly extinguished all their nobility, and brought about a war that lasted twenty-three years, and nearly ruined that country and all the nations of Europe.
