Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

Revelation 9:2

For the following description of this destructive horde of weird locusts, see Joel 2. with Driver's notes and excursus (C. B.) to which add the famous description of a locust-plague in Newman's Callista (ch. 15). Naturally the sketch is far more idealised than that given by Joel; it often recalls the monstrous associates created by Tiamat out of the primeval abyss (Jastrow, pp. 419 f.); i.e., strong warriors, “great serpents, merciless in attack, sharp of tooth. With poison instead of blood she filled their bodies. Furious vipers she clothed with terror, made them high of stature.”

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