Revelation 9:3
locusts <200> [locusts.]
like <5613> [as.]
Revelation 9:5
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.]
