Ticonius — on Rev 11:16-18 (COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 11:16-18)

“He speaks of the beginning and the end. When he says, "You have begun to reign and the nations raged," he indicates the first coming, for at his birth Herod and the people of Jerusalem were troubled. However, the time of the second coming is declared by wrath and judgment.… "Behold, the third woe has come," it says. By the sound of the trumpet of the seventh angel he refers to nothing other than the church, which is praising the Lord and is in the sound of the trumpet giving thanks to him without end. And from this we understand that the rewarding of those who are good is not without the punishment of the wicked. "To reward your saints and to corrupt the corrupters of the earth," it says. This means that [the Lord] gives to the righteous a recompense proper to their merits and to those who were corrupters he gives evil proper to their [wicked] deeds. For whoever has corrupted in himself the temple of the Lord, that is, the church of the body of Christ in baptism, he will without doubt be subjected to corruption. As the apostle said, "If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him."”