Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Revelation 9:15

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Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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were--"which had been prepared" [TREGELLES rightly]. for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year--rather as Greek, "for (that is, against) THE hour, and day, and month, and year," namely, appointed by God. The Greek article (teen), put once only before all the periods, implies that the hour in the day, and the day in the month, and the month in the year, and the year itself, had been definitely fixed by God. The article would have been omitted had a sum-total of periods been specified, namely, three hundred ninety-one years and one month (the period from A.D. 1281, when the Turks first conquered the Christians, to 1672, their last conquest of them, since which last date their empire has declined). slay--not merely to "hurt" (Rev 9:10), as in the fifth trumpet. third part--(See on Rev 8:7-12). of men--namely, of earthy men, Rev 8:13, "inhabiters of the earth," as distinguished from God's sealed people (of which the sealed of Israel, Rev 7:1-8, form the nucleus).

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