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BARNESREV 1170 (Barnes): "In regard to the meaning of the word altar here... God is 'true' or faithful to his promises made to his people, and 'righteous' in the judgments which he has now inflicted. These judgments had come upon those who had shed the blood of the martyrs, and they were just."
TNEWTON 4139-4140 (Newton): Quotes Rev 16:7 and notes the altar under which were souls slain for the word of God "declares his assent in the most solemn manner."
HOPV2 543.5 (Wylie): Quotes Rev 16 vindication passage in context of Protestant history.
BARNESREV 1169 (Barnes): Full text of Rev 16:7.

PFF3 592 (Froom): "Sixth Seal Opened; Euphrates Drying Up"
CUNINGHAME 3726: "Further Remarks on the Drying Up of the Euphrates"
ELLIOTT4 5924: "Drying up of the Euphrates, a sign of the times"
PFF3 353 (Froom): "Drying Euphrates Is Diminishing of Strength"
CUNINGHAME 3819: "I supposed that the drying of the Euphrates was completed in the year 1832, by the expulsion of the Ottomans from Syria and Palestine by the armies of Egypt."
ELLIOTT3 2737-2738 (Elliott): "The sixth Angel poured out his Vial on the great river Euphrates... It is manifest that the same Turkish power is here intended that was described under the sixth Trumpet as loosed from the Euphrates."
MWV2 222.1 (Miller): Identifies bowls as historical judgments on papal Rome, notes sixth bowl on Euphrates.

ExV 52.2 (EGW): "Then I saw that the seven last plagues were soon to be poured out upon those who have no shelter, yet the world regard them no more than they would so many drops of water that were about to fall. Then I was made capable to endure the awful sight of the seven last plagues, the wrath of God. I saw that his anger was dreadful and terrible..."
BHB 58.3 (Haskell): "Revelation 15:1, 7. The unmixed wrath of God is the seven last plagues."
TBI 226 (Uriah Smith): "The Seven Last Plagues"
CFL 72.2 (EGW): "When the people of God have accomplished their work of declaring the messages of the three angels of Revelation 14 to the whole world and they have received the seal of God, then Jesus will cease His intercession in the sanctuary of heaven. At this time probation closes, and shortly thereafter the time of trouble and the seven last plagues commence."

1TC 260 / EP 273 / BOE 191 (EGW): "An Example of False Repentance" — on Pharaoh's pattern
BOE 191.5 (EGW): "Now they seemed to repent sincerely, but they were sorry for the result of their evil course rather than from a sense of their unthankfulness and disobedience."

CUNINGHAME 1934: "Till the French revolution, the Papal power... continued throughout all the central territories of the Roman Empire of the West to hold the saints in subjection."
GUINNESS 2138: "Terribly iniquitous had been the career of the monarchical power thus rudely overthrown; and fearfully corrupt the priesthood and religion thus utterly and with abhorrence rejected. A solemn character of retribution attaches to even the worst excesses of the French Revolution."
ELLIOTT3 2628: Identifies fifth vial with papal overthrow — "His power was crippled; his seat unstable; the riches of his Church rifled."
PFF4 113.3 (Froom): "It was consequently the tremendous upheaval of the French Revolution, beginning in 1789, which brought out these reprints... predictions of a 'stroke' against the Papacy, to be delivered shortly before 1800."

CUNINGHAME 687, 2350: "The Vials are all poured out on the earth — What the earth denotes" / "The Effusion of the Vials"
PFF4 91 (Froom): "Vial Poured Out in Time of the End"
PREX1 177 (Litch): "The Vials and Their Effects"

DAR 654.1 (Uriah Smith): "A talent, according to various authorities, as a weight, is about fifty-seven pounds avoirdupois. What could withstand the force of stones of such an enormous weight falling from heaven? But mankind, at this time, will have no shelter. The cities have fallen in a mighty earthquake, the islands have fled away, and the mountains are not found."
LDE 271.1 (EGW): "There is a mighty earthquake, 'such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.' The firmament appears to open and shut. The glory from the throne of God seems flashing through. The mountains shake like a reed in the wind, and ragged rocks are scattered on every side."
PP 110.1 (EGW): Quotes Rev 16:18, 20, 21 in context of divine judgment.
PREX1 187.1 (Litch): "A talent is a hundred and twenty-five pounds... Nothing could stand before such a shower."

LDE 229.4 (EGW): "When Jesus ceases to plead for man, the cases of all are forever decided... Probation closes; Christ's intercessions cease in heaven."
CFL 72.2 (EGW): "When the people of God have accomplished their work... then Jesus will cease His intercession in the sanctuary of heaven. At this time probation closes, and shortly thereafter the time of trouble and the seven last plagues commence."
PH098 13.2 (EGW): "When Jesus ceases to plead for man, the cases of all are decided forever... Probation closes. Christ's intercessions cease in Heaven."
2SAT 3.5 (EGW): "Probation is about to close. In heaven the edict will soon go forth, 'It is done.'"