After six of the Angels, answering to the six men with slaughter-weapons, had sounded their trumpets, the Lamb in the form of _a mighty Angel cane down from heaven clothed with a cloud, and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the Sun, and his feet as pillars of fire_, the shape in which _Christ_ appeared in the beginning of this Prophecy; _and he had in his hand a little book open_, the book which he had newly opened; for he received but one book from him that sitteth upon the throne, and he alone was worthy to open and look on this book. _And he set his right foot upon the sea and his left foot on the earth, and cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth_. It was the custom for the High-Priest on the day of expiation, to stand in an elevated place in the peoples court, at the Eastern gate of the Priests court, and read the Law to the people, while the Heifer and the Goat which was the Lord's lot, were burning without the Temple. We may therefore suppose him standing in such a manner, that his right foot might appear to _John_ as it were standing on the sea of glass, and his left foot on the ground of the house; and that he cried with a loud voice, in reading the Law on the day of expiation. _And when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices_. Thunders are the voice of a cloud, and a cloud signifies a multitude; and this multitude may be the _Levites_, who sang with thundering voices, and played with musical instruments at the great sacrifices, on the seven days of the feast of Tabernacles: at which times the trumpets also sounded. For the trumpets sounded, and the _Levites_ sang alternately, three times at every sacrifice. The Prophecy therefore of the seven thunders is nothing else than a repetition of the Prophecy of the seven trumpets in another form. _And the Angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever, that_ after the seven thunders _there should be time no longer; but in the days of the voice of the seventh Angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the Prophets_. The voices of the thunders therefore last to the end of this world, and so do those of the trumpets.