(1) And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a (2) star fall from heaven unto the earth: (3) and to him was given the key of the (a) bottomless pit. (1) The first execution on the wicked men inhabiting the earth (as the angel said before) wrought by the infernal powers is declared from here to (Revela... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. (4) To this is added, the smoke of the hellish and infernal dark spirits, darkening all things in heaven and in ear... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power. (5) A description of the malignant spirits invading the world, taken from their nature, power, form and order. From their nature, for that they are like certain locus... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads. (6) Here the power of the devils is described according to their actions and the effects of the same. Their... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) And the shapes of the locusts [were] like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads [were] as it were crowns like gold, and their faces [were] as the faces of men. (7) The form of these hellish spirits and administers, is outlined by signs and visible figures in this manner: that they... [ Continue Reading ]
(8) And they had a king over them, [which is] the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue [is] Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath [his] name Apollyon. (8) The order of powers of maliciousness: that they are subject to one infernal king, whom you may call, The Destroyer: who... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) One woe is past; [and], behold, there come two woes more hereafter. (9) A passage to the next point and the history of the time following.... [ Continue Reading ]
(10) And the sixth angel sounded, (11) and I heard a voice from the (b) four horns of the golden altar which is before God, (10) The sixth execution done on the world by the tyrannical powers of it, working in the four parts of the earth, that is, in most cruel manner execution their tyrannous domi... [ Continue Reading ]
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, (12) Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. (12) As if he should have said, these till now have been bound by the power of God, that they could not freely run over all men as they lusted, but were held and restrained at th... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men. (13) The execution of the commandment is in two parts: one, that those butchers are let loose, that out of their tower of the spiritual Babylon they might wit... [ Continue Reading ]
For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: (14) for their tails [were] like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt. (14) That is, they are harmful on all sides: on whatever part you put your hand to them, or they touch you, they do hurt. So the former are called Scorpi... [ Continue Reading ]
(15) And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: (15) Now remains the event (as I said on... [ Continue Reading ]