SEV Biblia, Chapter 16:8
¶ Y el cuarto ngel derram su copa contra el sol, y le fue dado que afligiese a los hombres con calor por fuego.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 16:8
Verse 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.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 8. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun , etc.] 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, etc. 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).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 8-11 - The heart of man is so desperately wicked, that the most sever miseries never will bring any to repent, without the special grace of God. Hell itself is filled with blasphemies; and those are ignorant of the history of human nature, of the Bible, and of their own hearts, wh do not know that the more men suffer, and the more plainly they see the hand of God in their sufferings, the more furiously they often rag against him. Let sinners now seek repentance from Christ, and the grac of the Holy Spirit, or they will have the anguish and horror of a unhumbled, impenitent, and desperate heart; thus adding to their guil and misery through all eternity. Darkness is opposed to wisdom an knowledge, and forebodes the confusion and folly of the idolaters an followers of the beast. It is opposed to pleasure and joy, an signifies anguish and vexation of spirit.
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 ο 3588 τεταρτος 5067 αγγελος 32 εξεχεεν 1632 5656 την 3588 φιαλην 5357 αυτου 846 επι 1909 τον 3588 ηλιον 2246 και 2532 εδοθη 1325 5681 αυτω 846 καυματισαι 2739 5658 τους 3588 ανθρωπους 444 εν 1722 πυρι 4442
Vincent's NT Word Studies
8. The fourth angel. Omit angel.
Power was given (edoqh). Rev., it was given.
With fire (en puri). Lit., "in fire." The element in which the scorching takes place.
