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The four angels were freed who had been prepared for that hour and day and month and year, so that they might kill one third of mankind.
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Verse 15. And the four angels were loosed. This seems to indicate the moment in which Satan himself is loosed from the abyss or hell, where, as we shall see Revelation 20:2 he was chained up for a thousand years. This is the time of antichrist, whose coming, as Saint Paul says, is according to the working of Satan. 2 Thessalonians 2:9. The antichristian period is described by the ancient Fathers as the most dreadful of all; and the Apocalypse plainly shews it to be so, as we shall see. But we have this comfort, that his time will be short. He must be loosed a little time. Revelation 20:3.
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