Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joel 2:4

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4. appearance . . . of horses — ( Revelation 9:7 ). Not literal, but figurative locusts. The fifth trumpet, or first woe, in the parallel passage ( Revelation 9:1-11 ), cannot be literal: for in Revelation 9:11 it is said, "they had a king over them, the angel of the bottomless pit"—in the Hebrew, Abaddon ("destroyer"), but in the Greek, Apollyon —and ( Revelation 9:11- : ) "on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men. " Compare Joel 2:11 , "the day of the Lord . . . great and very terrible"; implying their ultimate reference to be connected with Messiah's second coming in judgment. The locust's head is so like that of a horse that the Italians call it cavalette. Compare Joel 2:11- : , "the horse . . . as the grasshopper," or locust. run —The locust bounds, not unlike the horse's gallop, raising and letting down together the two front feet. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"

Pericope (part_of)

• part_of pericope/per-jol-2-002

절 (explains)

bible-text/jol-2-4

Source

• source-manifest/jfb — Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (PD)
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