“And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.”
Out came another horse, bright red; its rider was permitted to take peace from the earth, so that people would slay one another; and he was given a great sword — the red horse (pyrros) symbolizes war and bloodshed; the rider's power to remove peace (eirēnē) and permit fratricide emphasizes warfare's destructive force. The great sword (machaira) enables mass slaughter. This represents escalation beyond the first horseman's conquest into active conflict.
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