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For the power of the horses is in their mouths, and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads, and with them they harm.
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A Two-Front Assault
Commentators explain that the horses' power is dual-natured, coming from both their mouths (fire, smoke, sulfur) and their tails (like serpents with heads). This signifies a comprehensive and inescapable assault. Some scholars, like John Gill, interpret this as representing both a physical, military attack (the mouth) and a spiritual, deceptive one through false doctrine (the tails).
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For their power is in their mouth. That is, as described, in the fire, smoke, and brimstone that proceeded from their mouths. What struck …
The power (η εξουσια). As in 2:26; 6:8. This power of the horses is both in their mouths (because of the fire, smoke, brimstone) a…
The sixth trum pet: The second woe. Here we find a description of disasters that reach to the death of a third of humankind (vv.15, 18; cf. 8:7). “…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For their power is in their mouth In what proceeded out of their mouth, or seethed to do so; in their guns, and what…
The sixth angel sounded, and here the power of the Turks seems to be the subject. Their time is limited. They not only killed in war but also broug…
