ACC ~ Revelation 8 v2

THE PREACHING OF THE CHURCH BRINGS EVERY AGE TO FAITH. TYCONIUS: In the seven angels we shall recognize again the church according to that rule that indicates that universality is often to be acknowledged in the number seven. [The church] is said to have received a most powerful trumpet of proclamation by which she is strong and by which, we believe, every age comes to faith. For we read, “Life up your voice like a trumpet.” COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 8.2.

THE TRUMPETS RAISE THE DEAD AND SIGNAL THE COMING OF CHRIST. OECUMENIUS: And seven trumpets were given to the seven angels, so that they might sound the signal that the king was arriving. But the sound of these very trumpets will also awaken those who are dead. For, the apostle, who is wise in divine things, wrote in his first letter to the Thessalonians that “the Lord himself will descend at a command, at the call of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God.” And again, “The trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible.”COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 8.1-2.

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