Rev. 15 Rev. 15:1 The seven angels with the seven last plagues. Rev. 15:2–4 The song of them which overcome the beast. Rev. 15:5–8 This seven angels receive the seven golden vials full of the wrath of God.

And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous; that is, a representation which appeared to John great and wonderful. Seven angels; ministers of God, used by him in the dispensations of his providence.

This sea of glass (as our learned More thinks) hath either an allusion to the sea of glass like unto crystal, reflected upon by the lamps of fire burning before the throne, Rev. 4:5–6, or to the waters of the Red Sea congealed (while the Israelites passed over) reflected upon by the pillar of fire.

And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God; the song which Moses sang upon God’s delivery of the Israelites from the danger of Pharaoh, which we have, Ex. 15; not that they sang those words, but to the same sense.

Acknowledging, that for this God deserved to be worshipped and served by all the world, because of his holiness, much seen in the justice and truth of his ways; declaring their faith and hope, that now all nations should own and acknowledge Christ, and be subject unto him, now that his judgments…

Here is a plain allusion to the Jewish tabernacle or temple, in which was the holy place, and the holy of holies; into the latter the high priest only entered. There were kept in the ark the two tables of God’s law, often called the testimonies of God.

And the seven angels; the seven ministers of God’s vengeance on antichrist, to whom the vials were given. Came out of the temple; that is, out of the tabernacle of the testimony; for in Moses’s tabernacle there was only this inward court for the priests, the people worshipped without.

And one of the four beasts; one of those four beasts round about the throne, Rev. 4:6. Gave unto the seven angels; the seven angels mentioned Rev. 15:6.

And the temple; that is, the church, as temple most ordinarily signifieth in this book. Was filled with smoke: by smoke, doubtless, is meant confusions and troubles.