Apocalipsis 6:16

16 Y gritaban a las montañas y a las rocas: «Caigan sobre nosotros y escóndannos del rostro de aquel que se sienta en el trono, y de la ira del Cordero;

Apocalipsis 6:16 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 6:16

And said to the mountains and rocks, fall on us
They chose death rather than life. Dioclesian being invited by Constantine to a marriage feast, excused himself by reason of his old age; but receiving threatening letters, the historian ^F20 says, in which he was charged with having favoured Maxentius, and with favouring Maximinus, he poisoned himself; and others of the emperors are said to lay violent hands upon themselves:

and hide us from the face of him that sitteth upon the throne, and
from the wrath of the Lamb;
thus they owned the proper deity, and almighty power of God, and Christ, which they dreaded; so Maximinus being afflicted with a most horrible disease, of which he died, asked pardon of the God of the Christians, and owned that he suffered justly, for his reproaches of Christ ^F21 Licinius, who sometimes pretended to be a Christian, and joined with Constantine, but afterwards revolted and fought against him, being conquered and taken, was put to death; at which time he, and they that suffered death with him, confessed that the God of Constantine was the only true God ^F23. This passage shows, that Christ, God's firstborn, is higher than the kings of the earth; yea, that he is equal with him that sits upon the throne, with God his Father, since his wrath is equally dreaded as his; and that, though he is a Lamb, mild, meek, and gentle, yet there is wrath, fury, and indignation in him, against his enemies, which is very dreadful and intolerable; see ( Psalms 2:12 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F20 Aurel. Victor. Epitome.
F21 Euseb. Hist. l. 9. c. 10. & de Vita Constantin. l. 1. c. 59.
F23 Euseb. de Vita Constantin. l. 2. c. 18.

Apocalipsis 6:16 In-Context

14 El cielo fue enrollado como un pergamino, y todas las montañas y las islas fueron movidas de su lugar.

15 Entonces todo el mundo —los reyes de la tierra, los gobernantes, los generales, los ricos, los poderosos, todo esclavo y hombre libre— se escondió en las cuevas y entre las rocas de las montañas.

16 Y gritaban a las montañas y a las rocas: «Caigan sobre nosotros y escóndannos del rostro de aquel que se sienta en el trono, y de la ira del Cordero;

17 porque ha llegado el gran día de su ira, ¿y quién podrá sobrevivir?».