Revelation 9:10

10 They had tails like those of scorpions, and also stings; and in their tails lay their power of injuring mankind 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 Their faces seemed human and they had hair like women's hair, but their teeth resembled those of lions.

9 They had breast-plates which seemed to be made of steel; and the noise caused by their wings was like that of a vast number of horses and chariots hurrying into battle.

10 They had tails like those of scorpions, and also stings; and in their tails lay their power of injuring mankind for five months.

11 The locusts had a king over them--the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is `Abaddon,' while in the Greek he is called `Apollyon.'

12 The first woe is past; two other woes have still to come.