Apocalipse 9:8

8 Tinham cabelos como cabelos de mulheres, e os seus dentes eram como os de leões.

Apocalipse 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.

Apocalipse 9:8 In-Context

6 Naqueles dias os homens buscarão a morte, e de modo algum a acharão; e desejarão morrer, e a morte fugirá deles.

7 A aparência dos gafanhotos era semelhante � de cavalos aparelhados para a guerra; e sobre as suas cabeças havia como que umas coroas semelhantes ao ouro; e os seus rostos eram como rostos de homens.

8 Tinham cabelos como cabelos de mulheres, e os seus dentes eram como os de leões.

9 Tinham couraças como couraças de ferro; e o ruído das suas asas era como o ruído de carros de muitos cavalos que correm ao combate.

10 Tinham caudas com ferrões, semelhantes �s caudas dos escorpiões; e nas suas caudas estava o seu poder para fazer dano aos homens por cinco meses.