Offenbarung 9:8

8 und hatten Haare wie Weiberhaare, und ihre Zähne waren wie die der Löwen;

Offenbarung 9:8 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 9:8

And they had hair, as the hair of women
Some locusts have smooth, others hairy heads ^F14: this fitly points at the Arabians or Saracens, who, as Pliny says ^F15, used to wear long hair without cutting it, and attired as women, and have their names also from women: they were called Hagarenes, from Hagar, Abraham's handmaid, by whom he had Ishmael, the father of these people; afterwards they took the name of Saracens, from Sarah, the wife of Abraham, whose posterity they would be thought to be; though they may have the latter name, either from (qro) , to "rob" and "steal", with the Arabians, or from the same word, as it signifies to "comb", from the combing and plaiting: of their hair. This may also point at the effeminacy of the western locusts, the monks and friars, who dress more like women than men; and many of them claim the virgin Mary for their patroness; and may in general design the votaries of the church of Rome, who are under the vow of a monastic life, as those among the Jews, under a Nazarite's vow, wore long hair.

And their teeth were as [the teeth] of lions;
so in ( Joel 1:6 ) ; which may denote the ravages and devastations of the Saracens in the empire, robbing, pillaging, and destroying all they met with; and is applicable enough to the devouring jaws of the Romish clergy, their plundering the estates of men, their cruelties and barbarities exercised by their Inquisition Pliny says ^F16, that locusts will gnaw the doors of houses.

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FOOTNOTES:

F14 Gloss. in T. Bab. Cholin. fol. 65. 1.
F15 Hist. Nat. l. 6. c. 28.
F16 L. 11. c. 29.

Offenbarung 9:8 In-Context

6 Und in den Tagen werden die Menschen den Tod suchen, und nicht finden; werden begehren zu sterben, und der Tod wird vor ihnen fliehen.

7 Und die Heuschrecken sind gleich den Rossen, die zum Kriege bereitet sind; und auf ihrem Haupt wie Kronen, dem Golde gleich, und ihr Antlitz gleich der Menschen Antlitz;

8 und hatten Haare wie Weiberhaare, und ihre Zähne waren wie die der Löwen;

9 und hatten Panzer wie eiserne Panzer, und das Rasseln ihrer Flügel wie das Rasseln an den Wagen vieler Rosse, die in den Krieg laufen;

10 und hatten Schwänze gleich den Skorpionen, und es waren Stacheln an ihren Schwänzen; und ihre Macht war, zu beschädigen die Menschen fünf Monate lang.