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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 9:5-6

‘And it was given to them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months; and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. And in those days men will seek death and will not in any circumstances find it, and they shall long to die and death flees from them.’ Scorpion stings are rarely deadly but they are so excessively painful that men so affected wish that they could die. Five months is the life cycle of certain types of locust. The... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 9:1-12

Revelation 9:1-2 Kings : . The Fifth Trumpet or the First Woe.— The seer sees a star fallen on the earth. The star seems to represent a person, possibly Satan ( cf. Luke 10:18).— abyss: the word properly means “ bottomless,” and is used in OT of the abode of the dead, e.g. Psalms 71:20. The abyss is approached by a “ shaft” or “ well,” here translated “ pit,” which is closed and kept under lock and key. Revelation 9:3 . out of the smoke came . . . locusts: cf. Exodus 10:13 and Driver’ s... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Revelation 9:5

Supposing the Saracens and Turks here meant by the locusts, here arise two difficulties: 1. How it can be said of them, that they had no power to kill, but only torment men. 2. How their time is set for five months, whereas they have already tormented the world more than a thousand years; and how long they shall yet continue to do so, God only knows: they are both great difficulties. Alsted tells us: That Mahomet began in the year 622, and the Saracens entered Spain 714, where they were called... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Revelation 9:1-12

THE FIFTH AND SIXTH WOE-TRUMPETSCRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTESRevelation 9:1. Fall.—Better, “fallen”; that had fallen. A star would seem to represent a false teacher. Some think Mahomet is referred to. He claimed to have received instructions from Gabriel. And he let loose a flood of evils on the earth. But it is doubtful whether any personal identifications are permissible. The typical and symbolical character should be preserved. Bottomless pit.—Better, “pit of the abyss”; inner prison; lowest... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:1-21

Chapter 9And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the eaRuth ( Revelation 9:1 ):And it is interesting how that a great mountain of fire burning, a star falling, a star falling, these are like fallen stars. That is why I relate them to perhaps asteroids or meteorites. I could be completely wrong. In other words, there are a lot of people who would like to sort of speculate, and in observed and knowable phenomena, these are not unreasonable. We know of phenomena that... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 9:1-21

Revelation 9:1-2 . The fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star, the vile impostor Mahomed, fall from heaven unto the earth. And to him was given the key of the bottomless pit: it should read, the keys of the abyss. This is the tartarus, as in the Greek of 2 Peter 2:4. The Waldenses understood this of papal darkness, and the overflowing of cruel persecution; but more sober wisdom confines it to the Saracen and the Turkish armies and conquests. And there arose a smoke out of the pit, as of... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Revelation 9:1-12

Revelation 9:1-12I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth.Moral evil in the universeI. It is exposable (Revelation 9:1). Moral evil, in its incipient state, so stupefies the faculties and blinds the conscience that the subject only becomes aware of it by the advent of s messenger from heaven--an angel from heaven uncovers it, makes it bare to the soul.II. It is fathomless. “Bottomless pit.” Who can fathom its--1. Origin.2. Issues.III. It is burning. “A great furnace.” Like all fire, it... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Revelation 9:5

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man. Ver. 5. And to them it was given ] This is often repeated in this book, to show that though Antichrist and his actuaries bandy and bend all their forces to destroy souls, yet they are bounded by God, and can do no more than is given them from above. Five months ] Locusts used to live no longer. See Pliny, lib.... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Revelation 9:5

it was: Revelation 13:5, Revelation 13:7, Daniel 5:18-Song of Solomon :, Daniel 7:6, John 19:11 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. Revelation 11:7, Job 2:6 they should be: Revelation 9:10 five: Five prophetical months, each consisting of 30 days, and each day denoting a year, amount to 150 years; and... read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Revelation 9:5

And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.Not to kill them — Very few of them were killed: in general, they were imprisoned and variously tormented. read more