“Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.”
And they did not repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts — the enumerated vices (murders, pharmakia [sorcery/drug abuse], porneia [sexual immorality], thefts) frame the unsealed as morally depraved. Despite judgment, they refuse to turn; this hardening parallels Pharaoh's resistance (Exodus 7-12) and demonstrates human depravity's resistance to divine mercy.
Church Fathers on Revelation 9:21
“And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is in the presence of God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels.” That is, the four corners of the earth which hold the four winds. “Which are bound in the great river Euphrates.” By the corners of the earth, or the four winds across the river Euphrates, are meant four nations, because to every nation is sent an angel; as said the law, “He determined them by the number of the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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