revelation 8:9 And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.

revelation 8:9 and a third of the creatures, which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed.

9. The symbolical interpreters take the ships here to be churches. For the Greek here for ships is not the common one, but that used in the Gospels of the apostolic vessel in which Christ taught: and the first churches were in the shape of an inverted ship: and the Greek for destroyed is also used of heretical corruptings (1Ti 6:5).

revelation 8:9 and a third of the creatures, which were in the sea and had life, died; and a third of the ships were destroyed.

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