Revelation 9:1

CHAPTER IX.

The fifth angel sounds, and a star falls from heaven to

earth, 1.

The bottomless pit is opened, and locusts come out upon

the earth, 2, 3.

Their commission, 4-6.

Their form, 7-10.

Their government, 11, 12.

The sixth angel sounds, and the four angels bound in the

Euphrates are loosed, 13-15.

The army of horsemen, and their description, 16-19.

Though much evil is inflicted upon men for their idolatry,

c., they do not repent, 20, 21.

NOTES ON CHAP. IX.

Verse Revelation 9:1. A star fall from heaven] An angel encompassed with light suddenly descended, and seemed like a star falling from heaven.

The key of the bottomless pit.] Power to inundate the earth with a flood of temporal calamities and moral evils.