“For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?”
For the great day of their wrath has come, and who is able to stand?' — the rhetorical question (tis dynastai stathēnai?) echoes Nahum 1:6 and establishes that no one can endure God's judgment by their own strength. The day of wrath arrives; judgment is not delayed but imminent.
Church Fathers on Revelation 6:17
“And the heaven withdrew as a scroll that is rolled up.” For the heaven to be rolled away, that is, that the Church shall be taken away. “And every mountain and the islands were moved from their places.” Mountains and islands removed from their places intimate that in the last persecution all men departed from their places; that is, that the good will be removed, seeking to avoid the persecution.
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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