Teks -- Revelation 9:8 (NET)

9:8 They had hair like women’s hair, and their teeth were like lions’ teeth.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Robertson: Rev 9:8 - They had

They had ( eichan ).

Imperfect active, late form as in Mar 8:7 in place of the usual eichon .

Robertson: Rev 9:8 - As hair of women

As hair of women ( hōs trichas gunaikōn ).

That is long hair (1Co 11:15), with no reference to matters of sex at all, for anthrōpōn just before is used, not andrōn (men as distinct from women). Perhaps the antennae of the locust were unusually long.

Robertson: Rev 9:8 - As the teeth of lions

As the teeth of lions ( hōs leontōn ).

Supply hoi odontes (the teeth) before leontōn . See Joe 1:6. The locust is voracious.

Vincent: Rev 9:8 - Hair of women

Hair of women

The antennae of the locust. There is said to be an Arabic proverb in which the antennae of locusts are compared to girls' hair.

Vincent: Rev 9:8 - Teeth of lions

Teeth of lions

Compare Joe 1:6.

Wesley: Rev 9:8 - And they had hair as the hair of women

All the Persians of old gloried in long hair.

Wesley: Rev 9:8 - And their teeth were as the teeth of lions

Breaking and tearing all things in pieces.

JFB: Rev 9:8 - hair of women

Long and flowing. An Arabic proverb compares the antlers of locusts to the hair of girls. EWALD in ALFORD understands the allusion to be to the hair on the legs or bodies of the locusts: compare "rough caterpillars," Jer 51:27.

JFB: Rev 9:8 - as the teeth of lions

(Joe 1:6, as to locusts).

Clarke: Rev 9:8 - Hair as the hair of women

Hair as the hair of women - No razor passes upon their flesh. Their hair long, and their beards unshaven

Clarke: Rev 9:8 - Their teeth were as the teeth of lions

Their teeth were as the teeth of lions - They are ferocious and cruel.

Defender: Rev 9:8 - as the teeth of lions

The locusts seen by Joel, like those seen by John, had "the teeth of a lion" (Joe 1:6), the "appearance of horses" (Joe 2:4), and made a great sound "like the noise of chariots" (Joe 2:5). Joel also commented that "there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it" (Joe 2:2)."

TSK: Rev 9:8 - hair // and their

hair : 2Ki 9:30; Isa 3:24; 1Co 11:14, 1Co 11:15; 1Ti 2:9; 1Pe 3:3

and their : Psa 57:4; Joe 1:6

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Rev 9:8 - And they had hair as the hair of women // And their teeth were as the teeth of lions

And they had hair as the hair of women dishevelled, or hanging loose; the Arabians were wont to go so; or this may signify, that they were beautiful as well as terrible to look upon.

And their teeth were as the teeth of lions sharp and strong: see Joe 1:6 .

Haydock: Rev 9:8 - And they had hair as the hair of women // Teeth of lions

And they had hair as the hair of women. This latter allusion, unhappily for the sectaries, betrays too plainly their sensual disposition towards that sex, their shameful doctrine on that score, and the scandalous example of their practice. Luther, in despite of a vow he had solemnly made to God of observing continence, married; and married a nun, equally bound as himself to that sacred religious promise! But, as St. Jerome says, "it is rare to find a heretic that loves chastity." Luther's example had indeed been anticipated by Carlostadius, a priest and ringleader of the Sacramentarians, who had married a little before; and it was followed by most of the heads of the reformation. Zuinglius, a priest and chief of that sect which bore his name, took a wife. Bucer, a religious man of the order of St. Dominic, became a Lutheran, left his cloister, and married a nun. Œcolampadius, a Brigittin monk, became a Zuinglian, and also married. Cranmer, archbishop of Canterbury, had also his wife. Peter Martyr, a canon regular, embraced the doctrine of Calvin; but followed the example of Luther, and married a nun. Ochin, general of the Capuchins, became a Lutheran, and also married. Beza, the most celebrated minister in the Calvinistic party, being asked in his old age, by an intimate acquaintance of his, (Deshayes, governor of Montargis) what was the leading reason which connected him so closely with the Calvinists? Beza called in his mistress, a beautiful young girl who lived with him, and said: "That is the principle reason which convinces me of the excellence of my religion." (Marsollier's Life of St. Francis de Sales, book iii.) ---

Thus the principal leaders in the reformation went forth preaching the new gospel, with two marks upon them---apostacy from the faith, and open violation of the most sacred vows. The passion of lust, it is well known, hurried Henry VIII. of England, into a separation from the Catholic Church, and ranked him amongst the reformers. (Pastorini, hic.[here]) ---

Teeth of lions. What is more known than the truth of this representation? Did not the reformers, wherever they got footing, pillage the churches, seize the church possessions, destroy the monasteries, and appropriate to themselves the revenues? Such was the case in Germany, in Holland, in France, in Switzerland, in Scotland, and in England; what a scene of rapine! Let it suffice to say, that in the reign of Henry VIII. were suppressed not less than 645 monasteries, 90 collages, 110 hospitals, and 2374 chantries and free chapels; (Baker's Chron.) the lands, &c. of all which were confiscated to the king. Is not this to devour with lions' teeth? The whole explication here given of the allegory of the locusts, we presume, appears so consonant with the history of the reformation, that the propriety will not be denied. The application is even so obvious, that the learned Protestant divine, Dr. Walton, used it for describing the multitudes of new sectaries that swarmed out of the English Church. Thus he speaks in the preface of his Polyglot: "The bottomless pit seems to have been set open, from whence a smoke has risen, which has darkened the heavens and the stars; and locusts are come out with stings, a numerous race of sectaries and heretics, who have renewed all the ancient heresies, and invented many monstrous opinions of their own. These have filled our cities, villages, camps, houses, nay our pulpits too, and lead the poor delude people with them to the pit of perdition." (Pastorini, Apocalypse ix.)

Gill: Rev 9:8 - And they had hair, as the hair of women // And their teeth were as the teeth of lions

And they had hair, as the hair of women,.... Some locusts have smooth, others hairy heads ⁿ: this fitly points at the Arabians or Saracens, who, as Pliny says ^o, used to wear long hair without cutting it, and attired as women, and have their names also from women: they were called Hagarenes, from Hagar, Abraham's handmaid, by whom he had Ishmael, the father of these people; afterwards they took the name of Saracens, from Sarah, the wife of Abraham, whose posterity they would be thought to be; though they may have the latter name, either from סרק, to "rob" and "steal", with the Arabians, or from the same word, as it signifies to "comb", from the combing and plaiting: of their hair. This may also point at the effeminacy of the western locusts, the monks and friars, who dress more like women than men; and many of them claim the virgin Mary for their patroness; and may in general design the votaries of the church of Rome, who are under the vow of a monastic life, as those among the Jews, under a Nazarite's vow, wore long hair.

And their teeth were as the teeth of lions; so in Joe 1:6; which may denote the ravages and devastations of the Saracens in the empire, robbing, pillaging, and destroying all they met with; and is applicable enough to the devouring jaws of the Romish clergy, their plundering the estates of men, their cruelties and barbarities exercised by their Inquisition, &c. Pliny says ^p, that locusts will gnaw the doors of houses.