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Selected Verse: Revelation 6:14 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Re 6:14 |
King James |
And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
departed--Greek, "was separated from" its place; "was made to depart." Not as ALFORD, "parted asunder"; for, on the contrary, it was rolled together as a scroll which had been open is rolled up and laid aside. There is no "asunder one from another" here in the Greek, as in Act 15:39, which ALFORD copies.
mountain . . . moved out of . . . places-- (Psa 121:1, Margin; Jer 3:23; Jer 4:24; Nah 1:5). This total disruption shall be the precursor of the new earth, just as the pre-Adamic convulsions prepared it for its present occupants. |
| Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886] |
Departed (ἀπεχωρισθη)
The verb means to separate, sever. Rev., was removed.
Scroll (βιβλίον)
See on Luk 4:17. Compare Isa 34:4.
Mountain and island
Compare Mat 24:35; Nah 1:5. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| And the heavens departed as a book that is rolled together - When the scripture compares some very great with a little thing, the majesty and omnipotence of God, before whom great things are little, is highly exalted. Every mountain and island - What a mountain is to the land, that an island is to the sea. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
And the heaven departed as a scroll - The whole system of pagan and idolatrous worship, with all its spiritual, secular, and superstitious influence, was blasted, shrivelled up, and rendered null and void, as a parchment scroll when exposed to the action of a strong fire.
And every mountain - All the props, supports, and dependencies of the empire, whether regal allies, tributary kings, dependent colonies, or mercenary troops, were all moved out of their places, so as to stand no longer in the same relation to that empire, and its worship, support, and maintenance, as they formerly did.
And island - The heathen temples, with their precincts and enclosures, cut off from the common people, and into which none could come but the privileged, may be here represented by islands, for the same reasons. |
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
23 Truly in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills, and from the multitude of mountains: truly in the LORD our God is the salvation of Israel.
1 A Song of degrees. I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
39 And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus;
5 The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
4 And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.
17 And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,