Revelation 9:10

10 And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them

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 And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as lions.

9 And they had breastplates as breastplates of iron: and the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots and many horses running to battle.

10 And they had tails like to scorpions: and there were stings in their tails. And their power was to hurt men, five months. And they had over them

11 A king, the angel of the bottomless pit (whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon and in Greek Apollyon, in Latin Exterminans).

12 One woe is past: and behold there come yet two woes more hereafter.