Revelation 9:10
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
And they had tails like unto scorpions,.... Locusts are said to have the tail of a serpent, and of the vipers of the earth {u};
See Gill on "Revelation 9:3",
See Gill on "Revelation 9:5". And there were stings in their tails; either in the baser sort of them, the Saracens and Papists; or in their doctrines, the prophet being the tail, Isaiah 9:15; with which both Mahomet, who set himself up for a prophet, and the Romish clergy, who set up their decrees and unwritten traditions above the word of God, have poisoned and destroyed multitudes of souls:
and their power was to hurt men five months;
See Gill on "Revelation 9:5".
{u} Scriptores Arab.