The Book of Revelation: The Four Horsemen (3)

And in his Lamentations we hear the same prophet complain: "Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine." Lamentations 5:10. Black, then, is color of scarcity and want, of drought and famine. The rest of the description of this horse is again in harmony with this idea of the black color, although at the same time we should not fail to notice that by it the idea of famine is somewhat modified and mitigated. And in his Lamentations we hear the same prophet complain: "Our skin...