8:10 Then 1 the third angel blew his trumpet, and a huge star burning like a torch fell from the sky; 2 it landed 3 on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
19:17 Then 10 I saw one angel standing in 11 the sun, and he shouted in a loud voice to all the birds flying high in the sky: 12
“Come, gather around for the great banquet 13 of God,
1 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence of events within the vision.
2 tn Or “from heaven” (the same Greek word means both “heaven” and “sky”).
3 tn Grk “fell.”
4 tn Here BDAG 988 s.v. ταλαντιαῖος states, “weighing a talent…χάλαζα μεγάλη ὡς ταλαντιαία a severe hailstorm with hailstones weighing a talent (the talent=125 librae, or Roman pounds of c. 343 gr. or 12 ounces each) (weighing about a hundred pounds NRSV) Rv 16:21.” This means each hailstone would weigh just under 100 pounds or 40 kilograms.
5 tn Or “the sky.” Due to the apocalyptic nature of this book, it is probably best to leave the translation as “from heaven,” since God is ultimately the source of the judgment.
6 tn Grk “on men,” but ἄνθρωπος (anqrwpo") is used here in a generic sense to refer to people in general (the hailstones did not single out adult males, but would have also fallen on women and children).
7 tn Grk “the men”; for stylistic reasons the pronoun “they” is used here.
8 tn Grk “the plague of it.”
9 tn Grk “since the plague of it was exceedingly great.”
7 tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “then” to indicate the implied sequence within the narrative.
8 tn The precise significance of ἐν (en) here is difficult to determine.
9 tn On μεσουρανήματι (mesouranhmati) here see L&N 1.10: “high in the sky, midpoint in the sky, directly overhead, straight above in the sky.” The birds mentioned here are carrion birds like vultures, circling high overhead, and now being summoned to feast on the corpses.
10 tn This is the same Greek word (δεῖπνον, deipnon) used in 19:9.