Passage Research
Revelation 8 — Sermon Preparation
The seventh seal brings a half-hour of silence, then the first four trumpets sound, unleashing destruction on the earth, sea, rivers, and sky. Below is a research summary for Revelation 8, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 13
- verses
- 319 / 105
- Greek words / lemmas
- 5
- classic sermon excerpts
- 3
- preachers & commentators
Revelation 8 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| τρίτος | trítos | G5154 | 13 | third |
| ἄγγελος | ángelos | G32 | 9 | angel, messenger |
| σαλπίζω | salpízō | G4537 | 6 | sound |
| ἑπτά | heptá | G2033 | 4 | seven |
| σάλπιγξ | sálpinx | G4536 | 3 | trump |
| κατακαίω | katakaíō | G2618 | 3 | burn |
| θυσιαστήριον | thysiastḗrion | G2379 | 3 | altar |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on Revelation 8, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“We have already seen what occurred upon opening six of the seals; we now come to the opening of the seventh, which introduced the sounding of the seven trumpets; and a direful scene now opens. Most expositors agree that the seven seals represent the interval between the apostle's time and the reign of Constantine, but that the seven trumpets are designed to represent the rise of antichrist, some time after the empire became Christian. In this chapter we have, I. The preface, or prelude, to the sounding of the trumpets, ver. 1-6. II. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 6 (Acts to Revelation), on Revelation 8:1–25 (Public Domain)
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