SEV Biblia, Chapter 8:13
Y mir, y oí un ngel volar por medio del cielo, diciendo a alta voz: ¡Ay! ¡Ay! ¡Ay! ¡De los que moran en la tierra, por causa de las otras voces de trompeta de los tres ngeles que han de tocar sus trompetas!
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 8:13
Verse 13. I-heard an angel flying] Instead of aggelou petwmenou, an angel flying, almost every MS. and version of note has aetou petwmenon, an eagle flying. The eagle was the symbol of the Romans, and was always on their ensigns. The three woes which are here expressed were probably to be executed by this people, and upon the Jews and their commonwealth. Taken in this sense the symbols appear consistent and appropriate; and the reading eagle instead of angel is undoubtedly genuine, and Griesbach has received it into the text.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 13. And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven , etc.] The Alexandrian copy, the Complutensian edition, the Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions, instead of an angel, read an eagle; and to fly agrees with either of them, and the sense is the same let it be read either way; and this angel may design either Christ, or a created angel, or a minister of the Gospel, as in ( Revelation 14:6); did the next trumpet introduce Popery, as some have supposed, Gregory bishop of Rome might be thought, as he is by some, to be the angel here intended, since he gave notice and warning of antichrist being at hand: saying with a loud voice ; that all might hear, and as having something of importance to say, and delivering it with great fervour and affection: woe, woe, woe ; three times, answerable to the three trumpets yet to be blown; and which are therefore called the woe trumpets: and these woes are denounced to the inhabiters of the earth ; the Roman empire, particularly the eastern part of it, which the fifth and sixth trumpets relate unto; and even the whole world, with which the seventh trumpet is concerned: by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels which are yet to sound ! the design of this loud cry of the angel is to show, that though the distresses and ruin which the barbarous nations had brought upon the western empire were very great; yet those which would come upon the eastern empire by the Saracens and Turks, under the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, would be much more grievous; and especially the judgments which the seventh trumpet would bring upon the whole world, when all the nations of the earth will be judged. From the sounding of the fourth trumpet, to the sounding of the fifth, was a space of a hundred and thirty five years, that is, from the deposition of Augustulus, A. D. 476, to the public preaching of Mahomet, A. D. 612.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 7-13 - The first angel sounded the first trumpet, and there followed hail an fire mingled with blood. A storm of heresies, a mixture of dreadfu errors falling on the church, or a tempest of destruction. The secon angel sounded, and a great mountain, burning with fire, was cast int the sea; and the third part of the sea became blood. By this mountai some understand leaders of the persecutions; others, Rome sacked by the Goths and Vandals, with great slaughter and cruelty. The third ange sounded, and there fell a star from heaven. Some take this to be a eminent governor; others take it to be some person in power wh corrupted the churches of Christ. The doctrines of the gospel, the springs of spiritual life, comfort, and vigour, to the souls of men are corrupted and made bitter by the mixture of dangerous errors, s that the souls of men find ruin where they sought refreshment. The fourth angel sounded, and darkness fell upon the great lights of heaven, that give light to the world, the sun, and the moon, and the stars. The guides and governors are placed higher than the people, an are to dispense light, and kind influences to them. Where the gospe comes to a people, and has not proper effects on their hearts an lives, it is followed with dreadful judgments. God gives alarm by the written word, by ministers, by men's own consciences, and by the sign of the times; so that if people are surprised, it is their own fault The anger of God makes all comforts bitter, and even life itsel burdensome. But God, in this world, sets bounds to the most terribl judgments. Corruption of doctrine and worship in the church are grea judgments, and also are the usual causes and tokens of other judgment coming on a people. Before the other three trumpets were sounded, ther was solemn warning how terrible the calamities would be that shoul follow. If lesser judgments do not take effect the church and the worl must expect greater; and when God comes to punish the world, the inhabitants shall tremble before him. Let sinners take warning to fle from the wrath to come; let believers learn to value and to be thankfu for their privileges; and let them patiently continue in well doing __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 ειδον 1492 5627 και 2532 ηκουσα 191 5656 ενος 1520 αγγελου 32 πετωμενου 4072 5740 εν 1722 μεσουρανηματι 3321 λεγοντος 3004 5723 φωνη 5456 μεγαλη 3173 ουαι 3759 ουαι 3759 ουαι 3759 τοις 3588 κατοικουσιν 2730 5723 επι 1909 της 3588 γης 1093 εκ 1537 των 3588 λοιπων 3062 φωνων 5456 της 3588 σαλπιγγος 4536 των 3588 τριων 5140 αγγελων 32 των 3588 μελλοντων 3195 5723 σαλπιζειν 4537 5721
Vincent's NT Word Studies
13. An angel (enov aggelou). For angel read ajetou eagle. Lit., one eagle. The eagle is a symbol of vengeance in Deut. xxviii. 49; Hos. viii. 1; Hab. i. 8.
Mid heaven (mesouranhmati). Only in Revelation, here, xiv. 6; xix. 17. It means, properly, the meridian, the highest point in the heavens which the sun occupies at noon; not the space between heaven and earth.
