Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
They say (legousin). Vivid dramatic present active indicative, as is natural here.
Fall on us (Pesate ef hmav). Second aorist (first aorist ending) imperative of piptw, tense of urgency, do it now.
And hide us (kai kruyate hmav). Same tense of urgency again from kruptw (verb in verse Revelation 6:15). Both imperatives come in inverted order from Hosea 10:8 with kaluyate (cover) in place of kruyate (hide), quoted by Jesus on the way to the Cross (Luke 23:30) in the order here, but with kaluyate, not kruyate.
From the face of him that (apo proswpou tou, etc.). "What sinners dread most is not death, but the revealed Presence of God" (Swete). Cf. Genesis 3:8.
And from the wrath of the Lamb (kai apo thv orghv tou arniou). Repetition of "the grave irony" (Swete) of Revelation 5:5 f. The Lamb is the Lion again in the terribleness of his wrath. Recall the mourning in Revelation 1:7. See Matthew 25:41 ff. where Jesus pronounces the woes on the wicked.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 6:16:
Revelation 4:2
Revelation 20:11
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