Filled it with fire from the altar: the angel took live coals from the altar and put them in the censer, and threw the burning incense and the live coals on the earth. In many languages simply filling the censer with fire will sound strange, so it will be helpful to make certain information explicit and say “Then the angel took the incense container and filled it with burning coals from the altar.”

Peals of thunder, voices, flashes of lightning: see 4.5.

Earthquake: see 6.12.

Quoted with permission from Bratcher, Robert G. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on The Revelation to John. (UBS Handbook Series). New York: UBS, 1993. For this and other handbooks for translators see here .