C. The Second Bowl (16:3)
C. THE SECOND BOWL (16:3)
3. The second angel directed his efforts toward the sea, which turned into blood like that of a dead man (cf. Ex. 7:17-21). In the Greek like precedes dead man, not blood, i.e. it means ‘blood as of a dead man’ rather than ’as blood of a dead man‘. But this can scarcely affect the general meaning. When the second trumpet was blown, something like a mountain was hurled into the sea, a third of the waters became blood and a third of the creatures in and on the sea died (8:8-9). On this occasion there is no mention of one-third or of any other proportion. We are now face to face with finality. Everything in the sea died, and this is expressed in a full and unusual way, ’every living soul ... in the sea’.