Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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 Acts 15:39, which ALFORD copies.
mountain . . . moved out of . . . places— (Psalms 121:1, Margin; Jeremiah 3:23; Jeremiah 4:24; Nahum 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.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Revelation 6:14:
Isaiah 13:10
Isaiah 34:4
Hebrews 1:12
Revelation 7:3
Revelation 16:20
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