Affects the sun, moon, and stars. Affects the sun. The angels at the great river Euphrates loosed. Muster of hordes of cavalry. Poured on the great river Euphrates.
Hosts muster for the battle of the great day.
It cannot be merely for the sake of symmetry, to complete the sevenfold plan of the construction, for the marvellous affluence of the book makes the suggestion of poverty of invention, or repetition for the sake of filling up, utterly preposterous. More probable is the explanation that the vision of the vials is introduced not only to reaffirm the judgments about to come upon the land, but especially to prepare the way for the bringing in of the great criminal, the hour of whose judgment is come. It will now be proper to pass in brief review the successive vials of the seven angels. If the testimony of Josephus is to be relied on, the destruction of Jerusalem was preceded by portents of the most alarming kind. It is to be observed that the area affected by these plagues is the land, that is Judea, the scene of the tragedy.