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Revelation 6:16
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14 aThen the sky1 receded as a scroll when it is rolled up, and bevery mountain and island was moved out of its place.  
15 And the akings of the earth, the great men,1 the rich men, the commanders, the mighty men, every slave and every free man, bhid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains,  
16 aand said to the mountains and rocks, “Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who bsits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!  
17 For the great day of His wrath has come, aand who is able to stand?” 
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Revelation 6:16

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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