Teks -- Revelation 9:9 (NET)

9:9 They had breastplates like iron breastplates, and the sound of their wings was like the noise of many horse-drawn chariots charging into battle.

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Robertson: Rev 9:9 - As it were breastplates of iron

As it were breastplates of iron ( hōs thōrakas siderous ).

The thōrax was originally the breast (from the neck to the navel), then the breastplate, only N.T. usage (Rev 9:9, Rev 9:17; 1Th 5:8; Eph 6:14). The armour for the breastplate was usually of iron (siderous , Rev 2:27), but with the locusts it only seemed to be so (hōs ). However, the scaly backs and flanks of the locusts do resemble coats of mail. "The locusts of the Abyss may be the memories of the past brought home at times of Divine visitation"(Swete).

Robertson: Rev 9:9 - The sound of their wings

The sound of their wings ( hē phōnē tōn pterugōn ).

Graphic picture of the onrush of the swarms of demonic locusts and the hopelessness of resisting them.

Robertson: Rev 9:9 - As the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war

As the sound of chariots, of many horses rushing to war ( hōs phōnē harmatōn hippōn pollōn trechontōn eis polemon ).

Both metaphors here, the clatter and clangour of the chariot wheels and the prancing of the horses are found in Joe 2:4. Trechontōn is present active predicate participle of trechō , to run. Cf. 2Ki 7:6; Jer 47:3.

Vincent: Rev 9:9 - Breastplates

Breastplates

The breast of the locust resembles the plates of a horse's armor.

Vincent: Rev 9:9 - Sound of their wings

Sound of their wings

Olivier, a French writer, says: " It in difficult to express the effect produced on us by the sight of the whole atmosphere filled on all sides and to a great height by an innumerable quantity of these insects, whose flight was slow and uniform, and whose noise resembled that of rain." For a graphic description of their numbers and ravages, see Thomson, " Land and Book, Central Palestine and Phoenicia," 295-302.

Vincent: Rev 9:9 - Of chariots of many horses

Of chariots of many horses

That is, of many-horsed chariots . The Rev., by the insertion of a comma, apparently takes the two clauses as parallel: the sound of chariots , (the sound) of many horses .

Vincent: Rev 9:9 - Tails like unto scorpions

Tails like unto scorpions

The comparison with the insect as it exists in nature fails here, though Smith's " Bible Dictionary" gives a picture of a species of locust, the Acridium Lineola , a species commonly sold for food in the markets of Bagdad, which has a sting in the tail.

Vincent: Rev 9:9 - Stings

Stings ( κέντρα )

Originally any sharp point . A goad . See on pricks , Act 26:14. Plato uses it of the peg of a top (" Republic," 436). Herodotus of an instrument of torture . Democedes, the Crotoniat physician, having denied his knowledge of medicine to Darius, Darius bade his attendants " bring the scourges and pricking-irons (κέντρα ) (3, 30) Sophocles of the buckle-tongues with which Oedipus put out his eyes.

" Woe, woe, and woe again!

How through me darts the throb these clasps (κέντρων ) have caused."

" Oedipus Tyrannas ," 1318 .

Of the spur of a cock , the quill of a porcupine , and the stings of insects .

For the A.V., there were stings in their tails , read as Rev., and stings; and in their tails is their power to hurt .

Wesley: Rev 9:9 - And the noise of their wings was as the noise of chariots of many horses

With their war - chariots, drawn by many horses, they, as it were, flew to and fro.

JFB: Rev 9:9 - as it were breastplates of iron

Not such as forms the thorax of the natural locust.

JFB: Rev 9:9 - as . . . chariots

(Joe 2:5-7).

JFB: Rev 9:9 - battle

Greek, "war."

Clarke: Rev 9:9 - They had breastplates - of iron

They had breastplates - of iron - They seemed to be invulnerable, for no force availed against them

Clarke: Rev 9:9 - The sound of their wings

The sound of their wings - Their hanging weapons and military trappings, with the clang of their shields and swords when they make their fierce onsets. This simile is borrowed from Joe 2:5-7.

TSK: Rev 9:9 - they had // and the

they had : Rev 9:17; Job 40:18, Job 41:23-30; Joe 2:8

and the : Job 39:25; Isa 9:5; Joe 2:5-7; Nah 2:4, Nah 2:5

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Poole: Rev 9:9 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron // And the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron armed with the best armour of defence.

And the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle like locusts, they moved very swiftly. This agreeth to the Saracens, who made such haste in their conquests, that (saith Mr. Mede) in little more than eighty years they had subdued Palestina, Syria, both the Armenias, almost all the Lesser Asia, Persia, India, Egypt, Numidia, all Barbary, Portugal, Spain; and within a few more, Sicily, Candia, Cyprus, and were come to the very gates of Rome; so as they had many crowns on their heads, and moved as with wings.

Gill: Rev 9:9 - And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron // and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron,.... Alluding to the hard skin of the locusts, with which nature has fenced it ^q; see Joe 2:8; and denotes the armour with which the Saracens were accoutred: and if to be understood of the western locusts, the hardness of their hearts, their seared consciences, or their protection by the princes of the earth, the many privileges they are possessed of, the laws made in their favour, and for their security; their breastplates were not breastplates of righteousness, faith, and love, nor in defence of truth, but against it. And some think the iron colour may denote the colour of their habit, their black garments:

and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle; see Joe 2:5. The sound of locusts, when they fly or march in large companies, is very great. Pliny says ^r, they make such a noise with their wings, when they fly, that they have been thought to have been other winged creatures; hence a locust, in Hebrew, is sometimes called צלצל, the same name that is given to the high sounding cymbal. The sound of them is said to have been heard six miles ^s. Aristotle ^t ascribes it to the rubbing of their legs or thighs one against another; and so the Ethiopic version here renders it, "the sound of their feet": this may be expressive of the swift and rapid incursions of the Saracens, and of the dreadful alarms to the nations which their invasions made; and may be applied to the noisy declamations, anathemas, excommunications, and interdicts of the Romish clergy.