Revelation 9:10

10 Their tails were equipped with stings, like scorpion tails. With those tails they were ordered to torture the human race for five months.

Revelation 9:10 Meaning and Commentary

Revelation 9:10

And they had tails like unto scorpions
Locusts are said to have the tail of a serpent, and of the vipers of the earth ^F21; (See Gill on Revelation 9:3), (See Gill on Revelation 9:5). And there were stings in their tails; either in the baser sort of them, the Saracens and Papists; or in their doctrines, the prophet being the tail, ( Isaiah 9:15 ) ; with which both Mahomet, who set himself up for a prophet, and the Romish clergy, who set up their decrees and unwritten traditions above the word of God, have poisoned and destroyed multitudes of souls:

and their power [was] to hurt men five months;
(See Gill on Revelation 9:5).

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FOOTNOTES:

F21 Scriptores Arab.

Revelation 9:10 In-Context

8 women's hair, the teeth of lions,

9 and iron breastplates. The sound of their wings was the sound of horse-drawn chariots charging into battle.

10 Their tails were equipped with stings, like scorpion tails. With those tails they were ordered to torture the human race for five months.

11 They had a king over them, the Angel of the Abyss. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, in Greek, Apollyon - "Destroyer."

12 The first doom is past. Two dooms yet to come.