Revelation 6:9-10
I saw <1492> [I saw.]
souls <5590> [the souls.]
had been violently killed <4969> [slain.]
They cried out <2896> [they cried.]
How long <2193> [How.]
holy <40> [holy.]
you judge <2919> [dost.]
11:18 16:5-7 18:20,24 19:2 De 32:36-43 Jud 16:28 1Sa 24:12
Ps 58:10,11 Isa 61:2 63:1-6 Lu 21:22 Ro 12:19 2Th 1:6-8 [All]
avenge <1556> [avenge.]
This seal seems a prediction of the terrible persecution of the church under Dioclesian and Maximian, from A.D. 270 to 304, which lasted longer, and was far more bloody, than any or all by which it was preceded, whence it was called "the ‘ra of the martyrs."
