John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 14:9
9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, Ver. 9. And the third angel ] Understand by this third angel, all the reformers and preachers of the gospel after Luther, to the end of the world. If any man worship ] See Mr Perkins’s Treatise. A Papist cannot go beyond a reprobate. And receive his mark ] He saith not this of those that have the name or the number of the beast.... read more
John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 14:8
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. Ver. 8. And there followed another angel ] Martin Luther with his book De Captivitate Babylonia, which when Bugenhagius first read, he rashly censured for the most pestilent book that ever was written; but upon better deliberation he retracted his former sentence, and became a means to convert many others. Of the wine of... read more