John Bengel Commentary - Revelation 9:11

John Bengel Commentary - Revelation 9:11 - 9:11

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John Bengel Commentary - Revelation 9:11 - 9:11

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9:5 - 9:5
9:8 - 9:8
9:9 - 9:9
9:11 - 9:11
9:12 - 9:12
9:13 - 9:13
9:14 - 9:14
9:15 - 9:15
9:16 - 9:16
9:17 - 9:17
9:19 - 9:19
9:20 - 9:20

Rev 9:11. [95] Ἀβαδδὼν-Ἀπολλύων) The Septuagint renders Abaddon by ἀπώλεια: here it is put in the concrete, Ἀπολλύων.-ἐν δὲ τῇ Ἑλληνικῇ) The feminine, put for the neuter, by a Hebraism, as immediately afterwards ἡ οὐαὶ: or by ellipsis of the noun γλῶττα, of the omission of which by the Greeks, L. Bos notes down instances. By the Hebrew and Greek nomenclature of this angel, Patrick Forbes and James Durham acknowledge that the Jews and Greeks, harassed by the locusts, are pointed out.

[95] τὸν ἄγγελον τῆς ἀβύσσου, the angel of the bottomless pit) This is not Satan himself.-V. g.