Revelation 6:8 Revelation 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. And I looked, and behold, that is, John looked and called upon the others to behold, to consider, and take special notice of this fourth dispensation of God, both in his church, and in the world. A pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him, &c.. This pale horse (by a metonymy of the effect) doth signify the several kinds of death, which effected by the sword, the famine, the pestilence, and the wild beasts. For by what judgements of God forever men are killed, it is named or called death. And Death’ s companion is hell, that is adhv, the place of the dead; that is, the grave, which followed the death of them that were killed by there judgments, in the fourth part of the habitable earth; that is Europe. The geometers divide the inhabited earth (where men and women dwell) into four parts, Africa, Asia, America, and Europe; and all historians tell us, that these judgments of God were executed upon the European empire, and kingdoms thereof, in the days of the Roman pagan emperors. See Sympson’ s Ecclesiastical History, and Fox’ s Tables of the Tortures of Christians.