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Search 1: "censer incense Revelation 8 intercession judgment" (EXTERNAL_HISTORICAL)¶
[HENRY] Commentary on the Whole Bible (Ref: HENRY 45525, Score: 0.772)¶
"If he burn the incense ever so well in the most pertinent, judicious, lively prayer, if we be not at the same time praying in concurrence with him, what will it avail us? (4.) All the prayers we offer up to God here in his courts, are acceptable and successful only in virtue of the incense of Christ's intercession in the temple of God above. To this usage in the temple-service there seems to be an allusion, (Rev. 8. 1, 3, 4.) where we find that there was silence in heaven, as there was..."
[HENRY] Commentary on the Whole Bible (Ref: HENRY 4811, Score: 0.750)¶
"high priest in the holy place burned incense, which typified the intercession that Christ ever lives to make for us within the vail, in the virtue of his satisfaction. And we could not expect to live, no, not before the mercy-seat, if it were not covered with the cloud of this incense. Mere mercy itself will not save us, without the interposal of a Mediator. The intercession of Christ is there set forth before God as incense, as this incense. And as the high priest interceded for himself first..."
[BARNESREV] Notes on the New Testament: Revelation (Ref: BARNESREV 474, Score: 0.734)¶
"3, an angel is represented as having a golden censer: 'And there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.' The representation there undoubtedly is, that the angel is employed in presenting the prayers of the saints which were offered on earth before the throne. See Notes on that passage. It is most natural to interpret the passage before us in the same way. The allusion is clearly to the temple service..."
[CUNINGHAME] A Dissertation on the Seals and Trumpets (Ref: CUNINGHAME 1079, Score: 0.733)¶
"In the passage we are now considering, the incense which is offered by the angel, (who is our Lord himself,) with the prayers of all saints, signifies, that their prayers find acceptance with God, and are to receive an answer. The answer is contained in the action performed by the angel in the following verse. Filling the censer with fire from the altar, he casts it upon the earth, and there follow 'voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.' Fire is a symbol of various signific..."
[MEDE] The Key of the Revelation (Ref: MEDE 498, Score: 0.732)¶
"whole time of incense. Which being at length finished, 'an angel filled a censer with fire from the altar, and cast it on the earth.' And he acted thus to signify by this rite, to what subject those prayers referred, which rising to God, had been imbued with grateful odour; namely, to implore vengeance on the inhabitants of the earth, who had injured the saints, and had even shed their blood."
[HENRY] Commentary on the Whole Bible (Ref: HENRY 62176, Score: 0.723)¶
"[1.] The golden censer, which was to hold the incense, or the golden altar set up to burn the incense upon; both the one and the other were typical of Christ, of his pleasing and prevailing intercession which he makes in heaven, grounded upon the merits and satisfaction of his sacrifice, upon which we are to depend for acceptance and the blessing from God."
[ELLIOTT1] Horae Apocalypticae Vol. 1 (Ref: ELLIOTT1 2122, Score: 0.730)¶
"But wherefore these judgments? — Already, we have seen, explanation had been hinted in the Sealing Vision of good cause existing for their threatening, in its allusive intimation of some antichristian apostasy having then begun among the inhabitants of Roman Christendom. In the Incense Vision, prefixed under this Seal to the trumpet-soundings, we shall find explanation, if I mistake not, of the reason of God's proceeding to execution of the threat against it; as against an empire in which..."
[ELLIOTT1] Horae Apocalypticae Vol. 1 (Ref: ELLIOTT1 2133, Score: 0.725)¶
"The next thing to be here noted and explained is the Angel's representation, at the opening of the vision, as standing with his censer beside the altar, to receive the incense of the people offering; i.e. beside the great brazen altar of sacrifice in the temple-court. 'He stood,' it is said, 'at the altar, and much incense was given him.' The position was that of the officiating priest under the Levitical law, when about to exercise the same ministration: and it arose out of the divine ordinance..."
Search 2: "Rev 8 silence censer" (ELLIOTT1)¶
Elliott1 2084 (Score: 0.612)¶
"I pass to those expositors (as Mede, Daubuz, and Bishop Newton) who adopt what I conceive to be the correcter view of the Apocalyptic structure; i.e. who not only regard the Trumpet septenary of visions as included in the seventh Seal, but also regard this new septenary as chronologically consecutive on that of the six Seals preceding. Their view is to the effect that the half hour's silence in heaven figured the Church's silence in prayer before the Trumpet's sounding, during the incense-..."
Elliott1 2079 (Score: 0.774)¶
"I. 'And when He opened the seventh Seal, there was silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour.' What might be the meaning of this half-hour's silence in heaven, is here the inquirer's primary question."
Elliott1 2101 (Score: 0.729)¶
"fyivero in the same pluperfect sense here. In which case the translation will be, 'And when he opened the seventh Seal there had been silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour:'— thereby not merely allowing the idea of a connexion between this silence in heaven and the stillness of the threatened tempests previously noted, but almost implying it."
Elliott1 2116 (Score: 0.713)¶
"Such is the solution that I myself incline to of the half-hour's silence in heaven. At the same time the alternative solution is open to him who prefers it, — while still explaining the silence to mean stillness from the threatened tempests, as before, — yet to interpret the half-hour on the prophetic year-day scale, as but a very short interval, even as of a few days."
Search 3: "censer incense judgment" (BARNESREV)¶
Barnes 635 (Score: 0.702)¶
"See it described and illustrated in the Notes on He.ix. 4. There seems reason to suppose that the incense that was offered in the ancient worship was designed to be emblematic of the prayers of saints, for it was the custom for worshippers to be engaged in prayer at the time the incense was offered by the priest. See Lu. i. 10. And there was given unto him much incense. See Notes on Lu. i. 9. A large quantity was here given to him, because the occasion was one on which many prayers might..."
Barnes 474 (Score: 0.684)¶
[Same as above, different section: angel is employed in presenting the prayers of the saints]
Barnes 637 (Score: 0.651)¶
"4. And the smoke of the incense, &c. The smoke caused by the burning incense. John, as he saw this, naturally interpreted it of the prayers of the saints. The meaning of the whole symbol, thus explained, is that, at the time referred to, the anxiety of the church in regard to the events which were about to occur would naturally lead to much prayer. It is not necessary to attempt to verify this by any distinct historical facts, for no one can doubt that, in a time of such impending calamities,..."
Search 4: "silence half hour seventh seal" (ELLIOTT1)¶
Elliott1 2079 (Score: 0.774)¶
"'And when He opened the seventh Seal, there was silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour.' What might be the meaning of this half-hour's silence in heaven, is here the inquirer's primary question."
Elliott1 2101 (Score: 0.729)¶
"the translation will be, 'And when he opened the seventh Seal there had been silence in heaven for about the space of half an hour:'— thereby not merely allowing the idea of a connexion between this silence in heaven and the stillness of the threatened tempests previously noted, but almost implying it."
Elliott1 2116 (Score: 0.713)¶
"Such is the solution that I myself incline to of the half-hour's silence in heaven. At the same time the alternative solution is open to him who prefers it... yet to interpret the half-hour on the prophetic year-day scale, as but a very short interval, even as of a few days."
Elliott1 2083 (Score: 0.672)¶
"a repetition, after the seventh Seal's opening, of that which had been depicted, as they judge, in the palm-bearing vision before its opening? Or, again, how can we suppose a half-hour's silence in heaven to figure the joyous active rest of the Church in the Millennium? — Another class of the advocates of a triple parallelism of structure, — who, however, make the first series to end with the visions of the sixth Seal, those of the sealing and palm-bearing inclusive, and the seventh Seal to..."
Search 5: "incense altar prayers" (BARNESREV)¶
Barnes 635 (Score: 0.730)¶
"There seems reason to suppose that the incense that was offered in the ancient worship was designed to be emblematic of the prayers of saints, for it was the custom for worshippers to be engaged in prayer at the time the incense was offered by the priest. See Lu. i. 10."
Barnes 474 (Score: 0.699)¶
"Adoration, praise, thanksgiving, are represented as the employment of the saints in heaven: the only representation respecting prayer as pertaining to that world is, that there are emblems there which symbolize its ascent before the throne, and which show that it is acceptable to God. It is an interesting and beautiful representation that there are in heaven appropriate symbols of ascending prayer, and that while in the outer courts here below we offer prayer, incense, emblematic of it, ascends..."
Barnes 637 (Score: 0.679)¶
"The smoke caused by the burning incense. John, as he saw this, naturally interpreted it of the prayers of the saints."
Barnes 635 (Score: 0.693)¶
"In the temple, God is represented as occupying the mercy-seat in the holy of holies, and the altar of incense is in the holy place before that. See the description of the temple in the Notes on Mat. xxi. 12."