Revelation 9:19

Revelation 9:19. The description of the horses is resumed, for the purpose of bringing out another terrible feature of their destructive power. That power is also in their tails, for their tails are like unto serpents, having heads, and with them they do hurt. Three characteristics of the tails are specially mentioned; first, they are ‘like unto serpents,' long, smooth, subtle, clasping their victim in an embrace from which he cannot escape; secondly, they ‘have heads' at the extremity farthest from the body; where the power of an ordinary tail ceases these tails receive increased intensity of power, the glittering eye, the poison fang; thirdly, with them, that is, with the heads, they ‘do hurt.' The tail of a horse is for its own protection: these tails devastate. Yet they are not so fatal as the mouths. The former ‘hurt,' the latter ‘kill.'