Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Prepared themselves (htoimasan autouv). First aorist active indicative of etoimazw. They knew the signal and got ready.
To sound (ina salpiswsin). Sub-final (object) clause with ina and the first aorist ingressive active subjunctive of salpizw. The infinitive could have been used.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 8:6:
Revelation 8:3
Revelation 12:6
Revelation 16:12
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