Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 16:21

21 And there fell upon men a great hail out of heaven , every stone about the weight of a talent: and men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail; for the plague thereof was exceeding great .

The [illegible: 1 letter]ail was another of the Egyptian Plagues, Exod. 9.22, 23, 24, 25. The Allusion also may be the Hailstones, Iosh. 10.11. by which God fought against the five Canaanitish Kings. It signifies only further great Judgments with which God will pursue the Beast and his Party, until they all be destroyed.

The latter words only shew the continued Hardness of the Heart of the Beast, and all his Party; wherein also they answered Pharaoh and the Egyptians (their Type) who would relent with no steadiness and certainty, until they were all ruined by the Waters of the Red-Sea. In all this Prediction of the final Ruine of the Papacy, Pharaoh and the Egyptians are apparently made the Type of the Pope and all his Party: 1. As to their Sins, which were Idolatry, and the Oppression of God's Israel. 2. In the Plagues by which they were destroyed gradually; turning Waters into Blood, Bil[illegible: 1 letter]s and Blains, Darkness, Hail. 3. In their Impenitency, and Hardness of Heart; only with these two Differences by which the Antitype exceeded the Type in Wickedness, 1. We read of Pharaoh oft relenting, tho his goodness was like a Morning-Dew, and he returned to his former Stubbornness. 2. We read nothing of the Egyptians blaspheming God, because of their Plagues, which is often said of these Egyptians.

Marginal references: Chap. 11.19.; Vers. 9.11.