20 And every isle fled away, and the mountains [a]were not [b]found.

21 [c]And there fell a great hail, like [d]talents out of heaven upon the men, and men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hail: for the plague thereof was exceeding great.

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 16:20 That is, were seen no more, or were no more extant. A borrowed Hebraism.
  2. Revelation 16:20 Appeared not, which the Hebrews utter after this sort, were not, Gen. 5:24.
  3. Revelation 16:21 The manner of the particular execution, most evidently testifying the wrath of God by the original and greatness thereof: the event whereof is the same with that which is, Rev. 9:12, and that which hath been mentioned in this Chapter, from the execution of the fourth Angel hitherto, that is to say, an incorrigible pertinency of the world in their rebellion, and an heart that cannot repent, verses 9 and 11.
  4. Revelation 16:21 As it were about the weight of a talent was threescore pound, that is, six hundred groats, whereby is signified a marvelous and strange kind of weight.

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