Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Revelation 6:8
Behold a pale horse. Again, for the fourth time John beholds a
horse. It is still a time of war. The horse is now pale, the bloodless
color of the dead. Upon him sits
Death, an undescribed figure. Behind the dread destroyer follows
Hades, the unseen world (not "Hell" as in the Common Version)
swallowing up the dying mortals and hiding them from human vision. The
means employed to destroy men are described. Death and Hades employ
the sword (1) of war;
hunger, or (2) famine;
death, or (3) pestilence, for so is the word here used often to
translated, and such is its meaning in this place; and finally
beasts of the earth, (4) the destruction caused by the wild beasts
of forests and field.
The evident meaning of this symbolism is so plain that all can
understand its application, and we need only ask if the facts
correspond. Do we find the scarcity, want, hunger, and pestilence,
indicated by the prophecy, during the latter portion of this period of
civil commotion? Do we have an awful reign of Death in the forms
signaled by the seal?
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Revelation 6:10
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