Victorinus of Pettau proposed that the seven bowl plagues (15:1–16:21) do not chronologically follow the seven trumpet plagues (8:6–11:15) as part of a continuous series but are actually parallel accounts of the same events, which they recapitulate in another form. Among subsequent interpreters, the narrative of the seven seals (6:1–8:1) was also regarded as another version of the events narrated in the seven trumpet plagues and the seven bowl plagues; i.e., these sections were regarded as parallel accounts of the same events David E. Aune The book of Revelation