SEV Biblia, Chapter 15:8
Y fue el templo lleno de humo por la majestad de Dios, y por su potencia; y ninguno podía entrar en el templo, hasta que fuesen consumadas las siete plagas de los siete ngeles.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 15:8
Verse 8. The temple was filled with smoke] So was the tabernacle when consecrated by Moses, Exod. xl. 34, 35, and the temple when consecrated by Solomon, 1 Kings viii. 10, 11; 2 Chron. v. 14. See Isa. vi. 4. This account seems at least partly copied from those above. When the high priest entered into the holy of holies, and the ordinary priest into the holy place, they always carried with them a great deal of smoking incense, which filled those places with smoke and darkness, which prevented them from considering too attentively the parts and ornaments of those holy places, and thus served to produce an air of majesty in the temple, which none dared to approach without the deepest reverence. To this Calmet thinks the allusion may be here.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. And the temple was filled with smoke , etc.] Not with the smoke of false doctrine and superstition; that comes out of the bottomless pit, this from God, ( Revelation 9:2) and besides, Gospel churches will grow purer and purer, while the seven angels are pouring out the vials: but rather this may be understood of judicial blindness and hardness of heart, upon the antichristian party, which will come upon them from God in righteous judgment; so that they will not be reformed by the plagues, and vials of wrath, nor repent of their sins; but blaspheme God, who has power over the plagues, and so shall not be able to enter into the temple: or else this may design God's powerful and gracious presence in his church, in allusion to the cloud which filled the tabernacle, so that Moses could not enter; and which filled the temple, so that the priests could not minister, ( Exodus 40:34,35 1 Kings 8:10,11) since this is said to be from the glory of God, and from his power ; whose presence is the glory in the midst of his church, and a covert, a protection and defence, to the saints, so that none can come into the temple to hurt them: (see Isaiah 4:5,6) or rather this intends the smoke of the anger of God, as the Ethiopic version renders it, and which is intolerable; and it may have respect not only to the wrath of God, which is insupportable, but to that great affliction which will befall the saints in those times, through the last struggle of the beast; called the earthquake, and the hour of temptation, and a time of trouble, as never the like was, and which will be shortened for the elect's sake: and no man was able to enter into the temple till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled . None of the anti-Christian party will attempt to enter in, because of their blindness and obduracy; nor can they get in to do any mischief, because the glorious and powerful presence of God is a defence against them: and this may also have some respect to the darkness of God's judgments, which will not be clearly manifest until these seven plagues are accomplished; till that time God's judgments on antichrist will remain a great deep, and be unsearchable; there will be no entering into the temple, so as fully to understand them, which is meant by going into the sanctuary of God, ( Psalm 73:17) and this makes the interpretation of the pouring out of these vials, in the next chapter, very difficult.
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
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Vincent's NT Word Studies
8. Smoke. Compare Exod. xl. 34; 1 Kings viii. 10; Ps. xviii. 8; Isa. vi. 4; Ezek. x. 2-4.
None was able to enter. "God cannot be approached at the moment when He is revealing Himself in all the terrors of His indignation" (Milligan). See Exod. xix. 21.
