Ante-Nicene Fathers/Volume VII/Victorinus/Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John/From the ninth chapter



13, 14. &#8220;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.&#8221;] That is, the four corners of the earth which hold the four winds. &#160;

&#8220;Which are bound in the great river Euphrates.&#8221;] 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, &#8220;He determined them by the number of the angels of God,&#8221; until the number of the saints should be filled up. They do not overpass their bounds, because at the last they shall come with Antichrist. &#160;