84 Iwan M. Whiteley tual relationship with Zechariah yet the deviation in Revelation is suffi- cient so that the reader is inclined to conclude that the significance of the colours is initially unclear; it seems that to understand their significance in Revelation, one needs to focus on the Revelation text and not Zecha- riah. The use of all these colours in one passage is rare in biblical texts, yet all of these colours appear again in Revelation. The colour white is influenced by a number of factors and as a consequence requires qualifi- cation. It seems that the reader initially reads these unusual colours and struggles to isolate an anaphoric connection. Therefore, when the colours appear again later in the letter, the reader realizes that the later text is interacting with Revelation 6:1-8: Horse Colour Later Reference(s) in Revelation White 7:9, 13f, 14:14, 19:11, 14, 20:11 Fiery Red 12:3 Black 6:12 Green 8:7, 9:4 Any proposition that claims to make links in the macro text of Revelation runs into difficulty. Current scholarship has conceptually fragmented the Revelation discourse into what appear to be small units of mutually exclusive ideas. In this environment, it is very difficult to identify flow and development in the discourse. Consequently, it is not possible to exegete the whole of Revelation to demonstrate the validity of the cataphoric proposition as related here. However, it will be demon- strated that the reader would have naturally associated the later reference to their original use in the context of the four horsemen. We shall now investigate each coloured horse. The colour white is used 14 times in Revelation; 6 times before the reference to the rider on the white horse (6:2) and 7 times after. The tion and Commentary (AB, New York: Doubleday, 1988,) 111-113; C. Stuhlmueller, Re- building with Hope: A Commentary on the Books of Haggai and Zechariah (International Theological commentary; Edinburgh, Eerdmans, 1988) 62; P. Redditt, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi (The New Century Bible Commentary; London, Marshall Pickering, 1995) 75. D. Petersen, Haggai and Zechariah 1-8: A Commentary (OTL; London, SCM Press, 1985) 269; M. Sweeney, The Twelve Prophets Volume 2: Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi (Berit Olam Studies in Hebrew Narrative and Poetry; Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2000) 625; T. McComiskey, The Minor Prophets: An Exegetical and Expository Commentary vol. 3 (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1998) 1106; E. Merrill, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi: An Exegetical Commentary (Chicago: Moody, 1994) 184; J. Baldwin, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi: An Introduction and Commentary (The Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries; London, Tyndale Press, 1972) 138-140; B. Peachey, ‘A Horse of a Different Colour, the Horses in Zechariah and Revela- tion’ ExpTim 110 (1998-1999) 214-216.