I saw, and I heard an eagle, flying in mid heaven, saying with a loud voice, “Woe! Woe! Woe to those who dwell on the earth, because of the other blasts of the trumpets of the three angels, who are yet to sound!”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 13. The voice of one eagle: in divers Greek copies, of an Angel, saying, Wo, wo, wo! It is to foretell, in general, greater punishments and miseries. The Prot. translation has followed those Greek copies that read an Angel; but Dr. Wells, in his amendments, has restored that reading of an eagle which the ancient Latin interpreter had met with. Witham.—An eagle, on account of its swiftness, is here represented as chosen to announce by its cry of wo on the three succeeding ages of the Church, greater disasters to be sustained than in the preceding ages. Pas.
TR reads “angel” instead of “eagle”