“And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.”
And this is how I saw the horses in the vision: the riders wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur; and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur issued from their mouths — the cavalry combine military imagery (breastplates, riders) with eschatological symbolism (fire, sapphire-blue, sulfur). The horses' lion-heads (compare the first woe's locusts) suggest predatory violence; the triple emission (fire, smoke, sulfur) from their mouths evokes divine judgment and hellish destruction.
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