“By the "tails" he speaks of the leaders who have fallen away from the Head of the church, that is, from the Lord, and so those who were the first have become the last. This is as God thought it worthy to say through Isaiah, "The elders who are honored and admired are the head; and the prophet who teaches iniquity is t…”
Ticonius, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON THE APOCALYPSE 9:10
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10And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
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8And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
9And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.
— Revelation 9:10 —
11And 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.
12One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.