ACC ~ Revelation 10 v3

AFTER THE TIME FOR REPENTANCE. VICTORINUS OF PETOVIUM: That he “cried out with a loud voice” signifies that great voice of heaven, which announces the words of the almighty God to people that when the time of repentance is closed there will afterward be no future hope. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 10.1.

GOD’S PUNISHMENT IS JUST. OECUMENIUS: That the holy angel roars like a lion is symbolic of his wrath against the impious. “And when he called out,” it says, “the seven thunders sounded their voices.” He calls the seven ministering spirits “seven thunders.” They were mentioned earlier. Here he mentions them by way of the definite article, “the seven thunders,” referring to those seven spirits who bear the offering. What does it mean that the seven spirits cry out? It means that these also concur fully with the punishments against the sinners and bring forth a hymn of thanksgiving to God, that all that he has done is just. And they cried out together revealing the forms of the punishments. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 10.1-4.

THE CHURCH ADAPTS PREACHING TO THE HEARERS. PRIMASIUS: [The loud voice] indicates that through his servants he was proclaimed faithfully and with strength. As the prophet says, “And he made firm the glory of his strength.” “When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.” Because of the known use of the number seven, I think that the seven thunders signify the various manners of the church’s preaching.The apostle Paul spoke of this concerning his service to others, “As babes in Christ, I fed you with milk, not solid food,” however to others, “solid food is for the perfect,” yet also to others, “avoid the heretical man after the first and second admonition.” Therefore, the church is said to proclaim rightly through its usual offices of preaching. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 10.3.

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