The traditional interpretation places the fifth seal immediately following the events of the four horsemen, or from 303 to 313 AD, the time of the tenth, worst, and last official persecution of the Christians by the Roman state (pg. 32, The Fifth Seal, 303-313 AD).
“We naturally, however, look for the fulfillment of it [the fifth seal] in some period succeeding those designated by the preceding symbols. … in a period succeeding that represented , under the fourth seal, by Death on a pale horse.”
Albert Barnes, Notes on … Revelation, p. 160.
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