“The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.”
The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were hurled to the earth; and a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up — the first trumpet judgment echoes the seventh Egyptian plague (Exodus 9:23-25) and the prophet Joel's eschatological imagery. Hail, fire, and blood rain down; a third (triton, recurring fraction indicating comprehensive judgment) of earth and vegetation are consumed. The green grass (chloros), symbol of life, is destroyed.
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