And He set His right foot.—Exerted the strongest power of restraint.
Upon the sea.—The masses not under religious control, who, without the Lord's control of the situation, would have long since swallowed up the present order of things.—Rev. 7:1-3; Luke 21:25; Psa. 46:2, 3.
And His left foot on the earth.—“Throughout the Scriptures, earth, when used symbolically, represents society; seas, the restless, turbulent, dissatisfied masses of the world.”—A. 318.
10:3. And cried with a loud voice.—Pastor Russell was the voice used.—Rev. 7:2.
As when a lion roareth.—Symbolical of Justice.—Rev. 4:7; Amos 3:8.
And when.—In 1881 A. D.
He had cried.—With the first great cry, “Food for Thinking Christians,” 1,400,000 copies given away, free.
Seven thunders.—Seven volumes of “STUDIES IN THE SCRIPTURES.”—Rev. 8:5.
Uttered their voices.—Were foreseen as necessary to the complete statement of the Plan, and the fulfillment of this and other Scriptures.
10:4. And [when] WHATSOEVER the seven thunders had uttered [their voices], I.—Pastor Russell as a representative of the John class.