Revelation 9:1-18
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.]
