Chap. IX.The fifth Angel sounding the trompet, a starre falleth. 3 The issuing forth of locustes
from the smoke of the deepe pitte to vexe men, 7 and the description of them.
13 The sixt Angel sounding, foure Angels are let loose, 18 vvhich vvith a
great troupe of horsemen do murder the third part of men.
1noteAnd the fifth Angel sounded vvith the trompet,
and I savv note a starre to haue fallen from heauen
vpon the earth, and there vvas giuen to him the
key of the pitte of bottomles depth.
2 And he
opened the pitte of the bottomles depth: and the smoke of
the pitte ascended, as the smoke of a great fornace: and the
sunne vvas darkened & the aier vvith the smoke of the pitte.
3 And from the smoke of the pitte there issued forth note locustes
into the earth. and povver vvas giuen to them, as the scorpions
of the earth haue povver:
4 and it vvas commaunded
them that they should not hurt the grasse of the earth09Q1531 nor
any greene thing, nor any tree: but onely men vvhich haue
not the signe of God in their foreheads.
5 and it vvas giuen
vnto them that they should not kil them: but that they
should be tormented fiue monethes: and their tormentes as
the tormentes of a scorpion vvhen he striketh a man.
6 And
note in those daies men shal seeke for death, and shal not finde
it: and they shal desire to die, & death shal flee from them.
7 And the similitudes of the locustes, like to horses09Q1532 prepared
into battel: and vp&obar; their heades as it vvere crovvnes like
to gold: & their faces as the faces of men.
8 And they had heare
as the heare of vvomen: & their teeth vvere as of lions.
9 And
they had habbergions as habbergions of yron, and the voice
of their vvinges as the voice of the chariotes of many horses
running into battel.
10 and they had tailes like to scorpions,
and stinges vvere in their tailes: and their povver vvas to
hurt men fiue monethes. note
11 and they had ouer them a king,
the Angel of the bottomles depth, vvhose name in Hebrevv
is Abaddon, and in Greeke Apollyon: in Latin hauing the name
Exterminans. note
[unresolved image link]
12 One vvoe is gone, & behold two vvoes come
yet after these.
13 And the sixt Angel sounded vvith the trompet: and I
-- --
heard one voice from the foure hornes of the golden altar,
vvhich is before the eies of God,
14 saying to the sixt Angel
which had the tr&obar;pet, Loose the foure Angels which are bo&ubar;d
in the great riuer Euphrates.
15 And the foure Angels vvere
loosed, vvho vvere prepared for an houre, and a day and a
moneth and a yere: that they might kil the third part of men.
16 And the number of the armie of horsemen vvas tvventie
thousand times ten thousand. And I heard the n&ubar;ber of them.
17 And so I savv the horses in the vision: & they that sate vp&obar;
them, had habbergi&obar;s of fire and of hyacinth and brimstone.
& the heades of the horses were as it were the heads of lions:
& from their mouth procedeth fire, & smoke, and brimstone.
18 And by these three plagues vvas slaine the third part of
men,, of the fire and of the smoke and of the brimstone,
vvhich proceded from their mouth.
19 For the povver of the
horses is in their mouth, and in their tailes. for, their tailes be
like to serpents, hauing heads: and in these they hurt.
20noteAnd the rest of men vvhich vvere not slaine vvith
these plagues, neither note haue done penance from the
vvorkes of their hands, not to adore Deuils and09Q1533 Idols of
gold and siluer and brasse and stone and vvood, vvhich neither
can see, nor heare, nor vvalke,
21 & haue not done pen&abar;ce
from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their
fornication, nor from their theftes.
