ACC ~ Revelation 6 v14b

THE GOOD MAY FLEE, AND THE EVIL MAY BECOME WORSE. TYCONIUS: The church is also symbolized in the mountains and in the islands, for she is a “city set on a hill”on account of “the mountains round about.” And we read, “also among the islands of the sea [is] the name of the Lord God of Israel” which foretells that impelled by persecution she will be moved from her place. This is to be applied to both parts [of the church], among the good she is cautious and is moved by flight, among the evil she is moved by a perverse will and is turned into something worse, as it is said, “I shall move your candlestick from its place.” COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 6.14.

THE ARROGANT DEMONS WILL BE MOVED. OECUMENIUS: By “mountains and islands” he means the ranks of the arrogant demons, as it is written of them: “the mountains shake in the heart of the sea.” Moreover, by “islands” he speaks of those who in the vain foolishness of their minds think themselves superior and exalted in the fickle and bitter circumstances of the present life. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 6.12-17.

THE POWERFUL IN CHURCH AND WORLD WILL FLEE. ANDREW OF CAESAREA: Our Lord asked the disciples concerning the destruction of the temple and the consummation of the world, and as they were able to receive, he foretold of the coming events. To some extent these events have already happened to the Jews who killed Christ during the siege under Vespasian and Titus, as the Jew Josephus recounts it. But at the end, with a superabundance beyond everything, so to speak, these things will come upon the world at the coming of the antichrist. At that time, the great men, whether those who hold office in the church or those who possess worldly power—here figuratively called “mountains”—and the churches of the faithful—metaphorically called “islands”—which are being renewed to God, as Isaiah said,they will flee from their places, changing from place to place on account of the false christ. COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 6.14-17.

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