Revelation 9
1 At the sounding of the fifth angel, a star falls from heaven, to whom is given the key to the bottomless pit.
2 He opens the pit, and there come forth locusts like scorpions.
12 The first woe past.
13 The sixth trumpet sounds.
14 Four angels are let loose, that were bound.
fifth <3991> [the fifth.]
a star <792> [a star.]
<846> [to him.]
abyss <12> [the bottomless.]
rose out <305> [there.]
He ........ and .............. sun and <2532 2246> [and the sun.]
locusts <200> [locusts.]
like <5613> [as.]
to damage <3363 91> [that they.]
to damage <91> [hurt.]
<1508> [but.]
Corrupt and idolatrous Christians; against whom the Saracens chiefly prevailed.
who <3748> [which.]
were ... given permission <1325> [it was.]
kill <615 3363> [they should not.]
That is, should not kill them as a political body, state, or empire; and accordingly, however they desolated the Greek and Latin churches, they could not extirpate them, nor gain possession of the empire.
torture <928> [they should be.]
five <4002> [five.]
Five prophetical months, each consisting of 30 days, and each day denoting a year, amount to 150 years; and accordingly, from the time that Mohammed began to propagate his imposture A.D. 612, the building of Bagdad, when they ceased from their ravages, A.D. 763, are just 150 years.
locusts ........ them .......... and their <2532 846> [and their.]
people <444> [shall men.]
looked <3667> [the shapes.]
their ........... their faces ..... faces <846 4383> [their faces.]
hair .... hair <2359> [hair.]
and their <2532 846> [and their.]
They had <2192> [they had.]
and ... sound ........ noise <2532 5456> [and the.]
tails .................. tails <3769> [tails.]
They have ............... is <2192> [they had.]
angel <32> [the angel.]
Abaddon <3> [Abaddon. that is, a destroyer.]
woe ...... woes <3759> [woe.]
two <1417> [two.]
sixth <1623> [the sixth.]
sixth <1623> [to the.]
Set free <3089> [loose.]
great <3173> [the great.]
for ........... to <1519 2443> [for. or, at. an hour.]
to <2443> [for to.]
number ............. number <706> [the number.]
horseback <2461> [horsemen.]
I heard <191> [I heard.]
had <2192> [having.]
This appears to point out the scarlet, blue and yellow colours, for which the Turks have always been remarkable. The "four angels bound in the Euphrates" denote their four sultanies bordering on that river, where they were confined till after the period of the Crusades. The time for which they were prepared, "an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year," computing a year for each day, amounts to 391 years, 15 days; and from their first conquest over the Christians, A.D. 1281, to the taking of Cameniec from the Poles, A.D. 1672, which was the last conquest by which their dominion was extended, is exactly that period.
yellow <5191> [jacinth.]
sulfurous .................. sulfur <2306 2303> [brimstone.]
heads ..... looked like ... heads <5613 2776> [as the.]
A third <5154> [the third.]
in their .... in their tails ... their tails <846 1722 3769> [in their tails.]
rest ............................. and ......... and <2532 3062> [And the.]
That is, those of the Latin and Greek churches, who escaped destruction, still persisted in their idolatrous worship of demons, etc.
cannot ... or ... or <3777> [yet.]
they did .... worshiping <4352> [worship.]
and idols ........ and <2532 1497> [and idols.]
their murders ... their ..... their ...... their <846 5408> [their murders.]
their .... their magic spells ... their ...... their <846 5331> [their sorceries.]
of their ... of their .... of their sexual immorality or of their <1537 846 3777 4202> [nor of their fornication.]
