SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:7
Y uno de los cuatro animales dio a los siete ngeles siete copas de oro, llenas de la ira de Dios, que vive para siempre jams.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 7. And one of the four beasts , etc.] Or living creatures: now we hear of them, as of the four and twenty elders, under the blowing of the seventh trumpet, ( Revelation 11:16) with which this vision is contemporary; these living creatures are the ministers of the Gospel; (see Gill on Revelation 4:6) and this was one, or the first of them, who was like a lion, for fortitude and courage, and whose voice was as the noise of thunder, ( Revelation 4:7 6:1) and so fitly represents those ministers who shall give out the vials of God's wrath: not any particular person is designed, who shall be at this time; and much less Luke the evangelist, as Lord Napier thinks; nor Peter, who prophesied of the last time, ( 2 Peter 3:10,11) as Grotius; but a set of Gospel ministers, comparable to one of the living creatures John had before seen; of whom it is said, that they gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever : these seven vials are for the seven last plagues to be put into, and out of which they are to be taken, or poured, and inflicted; (see Revelation 21:9) hence it appears, that the seven plagues, and the wrath of God, are the same thing, and both design God's judgments upon antichrist; and these being expressed by vials, which are measures, and large ones, show the large abundance and plenteous effusion of God's wrath, and the secret, sudden, and irresistible power of it; and yet that it will be poured out in measure, according to righteous judgment, and therefore it is put into vials; and these golden ones, expressive of the purity, holiness, and justice of the divine proceedings: and it will be very terrible; it will be, not the wrath of men, but of God, and a cup of the fierceness of his wrath; it will be the wrath of the living God, of him that lives for ever, and as he is, such will his wrath be; it will continue for ever, for this wrath will issue in the everlasting destruction of antichrist: so the wrath of God is signified by a wine cup of fury, ( Jeremiah 25:15) and that destruction, and those plagues which God designed to bring upon Pharaoh, are by Jonathan ben Uzziel, in his Targum on ( Genesis 40:12) called azgwrd alyyp , a vial of wrath, which he should drink of: and in the pouring out of there seven vials, there is in some of them a manifest allusion to the plagues of Egypt. So the cup of trembling, in ( Isaiah 51:17) is by the Targumists called ylyp , a vial, and also the cup of fury, ( Isaiah 51:22) and that these vials were not small narrow mouthed vessels, but large broad mouthed ones, and more properly basins or bowls, is manifest from the use of the word with Jewish writers. The dishes on which the loaves of the shewbread were set, each of which loaves was ten hands breadth long, and five broad f377 , are by the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem on ( Exodus 25:29 Numbers 4:7) called tlyyp , vials; and so the chargers offered at the dedication of the tabernacle, ( Numbers 7:13,84,85) are, by the same, rendered vials, which weighed 130 shekels; and so the silver bowl they offered, is, by Josephus f378 , called a vial: the bowls in ( Amos 6:6) are, by the Targum there, said to be silver vials. The lordly dish brought by Jael to Sisera, ( Judges 5:25) the Targum calls the vial of the mighty ones; and the earthen vessels used at the trial of the suspected wife, and at the cleansing of the leper, are both by Jewish writers said to be vials f379 . Now these vials were given to the seven angels by one of the living creatures, the ministers of the word; from whence it seems that these angels design members of churches, as distinct from ministers; and may intend civil magistrates, and very principal ones, as kings of the earth, who, in this state of things, and times, will belong to the churches, and will be the instruments of destroying antichrist: and these vials may be said to be given to them by the ministers, since they will execute this vengeance in consequence of their prayers, and the churches', called vials full of odours, ( Revelation 5:8) and because these great men will be stirred up by the ministers of the Gospel, and by their ministrations, to do this work; (see Revelation 18:4-6).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 5-8 - In the judgments God executes upon antichrist and his followers, he fulfils the prophecies and promises of his word. These angels ar prepared for their work, clothed with pure and white linen, their breasts girded with golden girdles, representing the holiness, an righteousness, and excellence of these dealings with men. They ar ministers of Divine justice, and do every thing in a pure and holy manner. They were armed with the wrath of God against his enemies. Eve the meanest creature, when armed with the anger of God, will be to hard for any man in the world. The angels received the vials from on of the four living creatures, one of the ministers of the true church as in answer to the prayers of the ministers and people of God Antichrist could not be destroyed without a great shock to all the world, and even the people of God would be in trouble and confusio while the great work was doing. The greatest deliverances of the churc are brought about by awful and astonishing steps of Providence; and the happy state of the true church will not begin till obstinate enemie shall be destroyed, and lukewarm or formal Christians are purified Then, whatever is against Scripture being purged away, the whole churc shall be spiritual, and the whole being brought to purity, unity, an spirituality, shall be firmly established __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 εν 1520 εκ 1537 των 3588 τεσσαρων 5064 ζωων 2226 εδωκεν 1325 5656 τοις 3588 επτα 2033 αγγελοις 32 επτα 2033 φιαλας 5357 χρυσας 5552 γεμουσας 1073 5723 του 3588 θυμου 2372 του 3588 θεου 2316 του 3588 ζωντος 2198 5723 εις 1519 τους 3588 αιωνας 165 των 3588 αιωνων 165
Vincent's NT Word Studies
7. Vials (fialav). Rev., bowls. See on ch. v. 8.
