And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit. The last three trumpets of the seven are called, from , the woe-trumpets. FALL - `fallen.' When John saw it, it was not falling, but had fallen already. This is a l... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE OPENED THE BOTTOMLESS PIT; AND THERE AROSE A SMOKE OUT OF THE PIT, AS THE SMOKE OF A GREAT FURNACE; AND THE SUN AND THE AIR WERE DARKENED BY REASON OF THE SMOKE OF THE PIT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. UPON - `unto.' AS THE SCORPIONS OF THE EARTH - contrasted with the "locusts" from hell, not "of the earth." HAVE POWER - namely, to sting.... [ Continue Reading ]
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. NOT HURT THE GRASS ... NEITHER ANY GREEN THING, NEITHER ANY TREE - on which they ordinarily prey. Therefore... [ Continue Reading ]
And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. THEY ... THEY. The first "they" is the locusts; the second, the unsealed. FIVE MONTHS - the ordinary time during w... [ Continue Reading ]
And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. SHALL DESIRE, [ epithumeesousin (G1937)] - set their mind on. SHALL FLEE. So B, Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic ['Aleph ('), fugee (G5437)]; but A, 'fleeth,' namely, continually. In... [ Continue Reading ]
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. PREPARED UNTO BATTLE - `war.' Note, , where the resemblance of locusts to horses is traced: the plates of a horse armed for bat... [ Continue Reading ]
And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. HAIR OF WOMEN - long and flowing. Sign of a half-civilized race (1 Corinthians 11:14). An Arabic proverb compares the antlers of locusts to the hair of girls. Ewald understands the hair on the legs or bodies of t... [ Continue Reading ]
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle. AS IT WERE BREASTPLATES OF IRON - not the thorax of the natural locust. AS ... CHARIOTS - (Joel 2:5.) BATTLE - `war.'... [ Continue Reading ]
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months. TAILS LIKE UNTO SCORPIONS - the tails of scorpions. AND THERE WERE STINGS. A B 'Aleph ('), Syriac, Coptic, read, 'and (they have) stings: and in their tails (is) their power... [ Continue Reading ]
And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. AND. So Syriac; but A B 'Aleph (') omit "and." HAD - `have.' A KING ... WHICH IS THE ANGEL. So A 'Aleph (') read the article be... [ Continue Reading ]
One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter. 'The one woe.' HEREAFTER - `after these things.' These locusts from the abyss are probably judgments to fall on the ungodly immediately before Christ's second advent. None of the interpretations which regard them as past are satisf... [ Continue Reading ]
And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, A VOICE - `one voice.' FROM - `out of.' THE FOUR HORNS. So B, Cyprian; but A, Vulgate (Amiatinus manuscript), Coptic, Syriac, omit "four." The four horns together uttered their voice,... [ Continue Reading ]
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. IN, [ epi (G1909) too (G3588) potamoo (G4215)] - 'ON,' or 'AT, the great river.' EUPHRATES (cf. Revelation 16:12) - whereat Babylon, the ancient foe of God's people, was situated... [ Continue Reading ]
And the four angels were loosed which were prepared for an hour and a day and a month and a year And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. WERE - `which had been prepared.' FOR AN HOUR ... - rather, a... [ Continue Reading ]
And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them. Compare with these 200,000,000, ; . The hosts are evidently, from their numbers and appearance (), not merely human, but infernal, though constrained to work out God's will (cf. Revelati... [ Continue Reading ]
And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone. THUS - as follows. OF FIRE - the fiery colour of... [ Continue Reading ]
By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. BY THESE THREE. A B C 'Aleph (') read [ apo (G575) for hupo (G5259)], 'From:' the direction whence the slaughter came; not direct instrumentality, as "by" impli... [ Continue Reading ]
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. THEIR. B C 'Aleph (') read, 'the power of the horses;' A [ topon (G5117)], 'of the places.' IN THEIR MOUTH - whence issued the fire, smoke, and brimstone (R... [ Continue Reading ]
And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: THE REST OF THE MEN - i:e., the ungodly.... [ Continue Reading ]
Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts. SORCERIES - witchcrafts by means of drugs [ farmakeion (G5332)]. A work of the unrenewed flesh (Galatians 5:20), the sin of the pagan: to be repeated by apostate Christians in the last... [ Continue Reading ]