Revelation 16

The whore of Rome shall be rewarded as the followers of Christ have been rewarded by her, and double shall be rendered to her double, according to her works, Revelation 16:6: fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies: the church's adversaries and enemies are Christ's, and so he esteems them; and therefore his wrath and fury is poured out by way of recompence to them, for all the ill they have done them, even the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath, Revelation 16:19: to the islands he will repay recompence; even to those who dwell in the more distant and remote parts of the antichristian jurisdiction; for when the cup of wrath shall be given to Babylon every island will flee away, Revelation 16:20. Isaiah 59:19 Ver. 19. So shall they fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun,....

[Bible] 15:2. And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire: and them that had overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having the harps of God: 15:3. And singing the canticle of Moses, the servant of God, and the canticle of the Lamb, saying: Great and wonderful are thy works, O Lord God Almighty. Just and true are thy ways, O King of ages. 15:4. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and magnify thy name? For thou only art holy. For all nations shall come and shall adore in thy sight, because thy judgments are manifest. 15:5. And after these things, I looked: and behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened. 15:6. And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed with clean and white linen and girt about the breasts with golden girdles. 15:7. And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden vials, full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever. 15:8. And the temple was filled with smoke from the majesty of God and from his power. And no man was able to enter into the temple, till the seven plagues of the seven angels were fulfilled. Apocalypse Chapter 16 The seven vials are poured out. The plagues that ensue. 16:1. And I heard a great voice out of the temple, saying to the seven angels: Go and pour out the seven vials of the wrath of God upon the earth. 16:2. And the first went and poured out his vial upon the earth. And there fell a sore and grievous wound upon men who had the character of the beast: and upon them that adored the image thereof. 16:3. And the second angel poured out his vial upon the sea. And there came blood as it were of a dead man: and every living soul died in the sea. 16:4. And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the fountains of waters. And there was made blood.

[Bible] 16:4. And the third poured out his vial upon the rivers and the fountains of waters. And there was made blood. 16:5. And I heard the angel of the waters saying: Thou art just, O Lord, who art and who wast, the Holy One, because thou hast judged these things. 16:6. For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets: and thou hast given them blood to drink. For they are worthy. 16:7. And I heard another, from the altar, saying: Yea, O Lord God Almighty, true and just are thy judgments. 16:8. And the fourth angel poured out his vial upon the sun. And it was given unto him to afflict men with heat and fire. 16:9. And men were scorched with great heat: and they blasphemed the name of God, who hath power over these plagues. Neither did they penance to give him glory. 16:10. And the fifth angel poured out his vial upon the seat of the beast. And his kingdom became dark: and they gnawed their tongues for pain. 16:11. And they blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and wounds: and did not penance for their works. 16:12. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates and dried up the water thereof, that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun. 16:13. And I saw from the mouth of the dragon and from the mouth of the beast and from the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs. 16:14. For they are the spirits of devils, working signs: and they go forth unto the kings of the whole earth, to gather them to battle against the great day of the Almighty God. 16:15. Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame. 16:16. And he shall gather them together into a place which in Hebrew is called Armagedon. Armagedon... That is, the hill of robbers. 16:17. And the seventh angel poured out his vial upon the air. And there came a great voice out of the temple from the throne, saying: It is done.

2. The sea turned into blood, Revelation 16:3. The fleet of Vitellius beaten, and the maritime towns taken from them by the Flavii. 3. The rivers turned into blood, Revelation 16:4. The slaughter of the adherents of Vitellius, at Cremona and elsewhere, near rivers. 4. The scorching of the sun, Revelation 16:8. The diseases of the Vitellii increasing, and their exhausted bodies impatient of the heat. 5. The seat of the beast darkened, Revelation 16:10. All Rome in commotion through the torpor of Vitellius. 6. Euphrates dried up, and a way made for the kings of the east; and the three unclean spirits like frogs. The Flavii besieging Rome with a treble army; one part of which was by the bank of the Tiber. The shame of him who is found asleep and naked. Vitellius, Revelation 16:15. Armageddon, Revelation 16:16. The praetorian camps.

19 appeareth: and then the seventh vial bringeth an end to all Christs enemies universally, and especially upon any adherents or favourers that this beast shall have after that; for, it appeareth, that even when there shall be no visible Pope, yet some shall continue so drunk with his wine as to be doting after him and lamenting his destruction, even to the end, who then shall be remembered when great Babylon shall get her last sentence. A second help for clearing this, is, by comparing it with the 19. Chapter, which is the more clear and full explication of this: for, 1. that followeth the 18. Chapter which directly cleareth the fifth vial, and so in order the exposition of this sixth followeth, Chap. 19. 2. Here a gathering and battell is spoken of; but the event is not set down till Chap. 19 when the contrary party against this gathering is expressed, and that it is the same gathering, appeareth, that it is here the day of God, there, the Supper of the great king, denoting one singular and eminent overthrow of Gods enemies. 3. also, that the enemies destroyed there, are the same mentioned here, to wit, Kings and their Armies, the beast and false Prophet (who are mentioned under the same names in both places, to shew the reference of the one to the other) and therefore comparing the events with the 19. Chapter, it appeareth that the first four Verses contain a desirable event having an accession to the Church in it, answerable to which is the praise in the beginning of Chap.

It is especially his binding and his loosing and his final overthrow that is aimed at here, (what concerneth the whore, beast and false prophet, being in the former insisted on) and the Churches condition in reference to this enemy is occasionally set out. 3. And yet more particularly, it is for the explication of the seventh vial, which was (Chap. 16) poured out in the air, the devils universal kingdom, but summarly touched there; here it is more fully set out: for, the dragons destruction is insisted one here, which was the object of that vial. Beside, in the former Chapters it being told what became of the whore, Chap. 18:8 of the beast, Chap. 19 there being nothing of this enemies overthrow till now recorded, but of his action in the sixth vial, It followeth therefore, both in order and series of this explication subjoyned to the former, and also by necessity of the matter, that this is added for supplying what was defective concerning the overthrow of this enemy, and explication of the seventh vial, which is no where explained as the rest are, if it be not here: and the coincidency of the matter, the dragons final overthrow, and expressions about the last judgement, common to this with the seventh vial, such as the heavens passing away, &c. do evidence it especially to belong to the clearing of the seventh vial. Yet, 4.