Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Upon the sun (epi ton hlion). Not eiv (into) as in verses Revelation 16:2-4. The fourth trumpet (Revelation 8:12) affected a third of the sun, moon, and stars with a plague of darkness, but here it is a plague of extreme heat.
To scorch with fire (kaumatisai en puri). First aorist active infinitive of kaumatizw, late (Plutarch, Epictetus) causative verb (from kauma, heat), in N.T. only here and verse Revelation 16:9; Matthew 13:6; Mark 4:6. The addition of en puri (in fire, with fire) intensifies the picture.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Revelation 16:8:
Revelation 5:8
Revelation 11:3
Revelation 16:2
Revelation 16:17
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