Revelation 6:8
“And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
And I looked, and behold a pale horse,.... An emblem either of the state of the church, pale not with persecution, as…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
And I looked, and behold a pale horse - - ἵππος χλωρὸς hippos chlōros. On the horse, as an emblem, see the notes on…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
A pale horse - The symbol of death. Pallida mors, pale death, was a very usual poetic epithet; of this symbol there can…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Revelation 6:3-8
The next three seals give us a sad prospect of great and desolating judgments with which God punishes those who either…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
a pale horse Or livid, lit. green, as in Rev 8:7, but used constantly of the paleness of the human face when…
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