SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:18
Entonces fueron hechos relmpagos y voces y truenos; y hubo un gran temblor de tierra, un terremoto tan grande, cual no fue jams desde que los hombres han estado sobre la tierra.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 16:18
Verse 18. A great earthquake] Most terrible commotions, both civil and religious. Or a convulsion, shaking, or revolution.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 18. And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings , etc.] As at the giving of the law, ( Exodus 19:16) and at the sounding of the seventh trumpet, (see Gill on Revelation 11:15) and may intend either the pure ministry of the Gospel in the spiritual reign, the voices of Christ's ministers, and the effects of them, who will be Boanergeses, sons of thunder, and will be the means of enlightening the minds of many, as well as of shaking the consciences of men, signified by the earthquake following; or rather, the tremendous and awful judgments of God upon the remains of the antichristian party, as the very great commotions and changes that will be made in the world are expressed in the next clause: and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great : for as the changes made in the Jewish state, civil and ecclesiastical, are signified by the shaking of the heavens and the earth, and as the fall of Paganism is expressed by an earthquake, and the fall of the tenth part of the city is the effect of another; so the destruction of all the antichristian powers, and the mutations made in the earth thereby, are designed by this; (see Hebrews 12:26,27 Revelation 6:12 11:13) ( Joel 3:16). Mr. Daubuz applies the whole of this vial to the, Reformation, when such a revolution was made in a short time, as has not been known since the world was, or men became worshippers of the beast; at which time Christendom was divided into three parts, the eastern or Greek church, the western or Latin church, and the reformed churches.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-21 - The seventh and last angel poured forth his vial, and the downfall of Babylon was finished. The church triumphant in heaven saw it an rejoiced; the church in conflict on earth saw it and became triumphant God remembered the great and wicked city; though for some time he seemed to have forgotten her idolatry and cruelty. All that was mos secure was carried away by the ruin. Men blasphemed: the greates judgments that can befall men, will not bring to repentance without the grace of God. To be hardened against God, by his righteous judgments is a certain token of sure and utter destruction __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 CONJ εγενοντο 1096 5633 V-2ADI-3P φωναι 5456 N-NPF και 2532 CONJ βρονται 1027 N-NPF και 2532 CONJ αστραπαι 796 N-NPF και 2532 CONJ σεισμος 4578 N-NSM εγενετο 1096 5633 V-2ADI-3S μεγας 3173 A-NSM οιος 3634 K-NSM ουκ 3756 PRT-N εγενετο 1096 5633 V-2ADI-3S αφ 575 PREP ου 3739 R-GSM οι 3588 T-NPM ανθρωποι 444 N-NPM εγενοντο 1096 5633 V-2ADI-3P επι 1909 PREP της 3588 T-GSF γης 1093 N-GSF τηλικουτος 5082 D-NSM σεισμος 4578 N-NSM ουτως 3779 ADV μεγας 3173 A-NSM
