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9:6 Apoc 6:16

The fifth Angel sounding the trumpet, a star falls, 3. The issuing forth of locusts from the smoke of the deep pit to vex men, 7. And the description of them. 18. The sixth Angel sounding, four Angels are let loose, 18. Which with a great troop of horsemen, do destroy the third part of men. 1 AND the fifth Angel sounded with the trumpet, and I saw a star to have fallen from heaven upon the earth, and there was given to him the key of the pit of bottomless depth. 2 And he opened the pit of the bottomless depth: and the smoke of the pit ascended, as the smoke of a great furnace: and the sun was darkened and the air with the smoke of the pit. 3 And from the smoke of the pit there issued forth locusts into the earth, and power was given to them, as the scorpions of the earth have power: 4 and it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth nor any green thing, nor any tree: but only men which have not the sign of God in their foreheads. 5 and it was given unto them that they should not kill them: but that they should be tormented five months: and their torments as the torments of a scorpion when he strikes a man. 6 And *in those days men shall seek for death, and shall not find it: and they shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. 7 And the similitudes of the locusts, like to horses prepared into battle: and upon their heads as it were crowns like to gold: and their faces as the faces of men. 8 And they had hair as the hair of women: and their teeth were as of lions. 9 And they had habbergions as habbergions of iron, and the voice of their wings as the voice of the chariots of many horses running into battle. 10 And they had tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails : and their power was to hurt men five months. 11 And they had over them a king, the Angel of the bottomless depth, whose name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek Apollyon: in Latin having the name Exterminans. 12 One woe is gone, and behold two woes come yet after these. 13 And the sixth Angel sounded with the trumpet: and I heard one voice from the four horns of the golden altar, which is before the eyes of God, 14 saying to the sixth Angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 15 And the four Angels were loosed, who were prepared for an hour, and a day and a month and a year: that they might kill the third part of men. 16 And the number of the army of horsemen was twenty thousand times ten thousand. And I heard the number of them. 17 And so I saw the horses in the vision: and they that sat upon them, had habbergions of fire and of hyacinth and brimstone, and the heads of the horses were as it were the heads of lions: and from their mouth proceeded fire, and smoke, and brimstone. 18 And by these three plagues was slain the third part of men, of the fire and of the smoke and of the brimstone, which proceeded from their mouth. 19 For the power of the horses is in their mouth, and in their tails. for, their tails be like to serpents, having heads: and in these they hurt. 20 And the rest of men which were not slain with these plagues, neither have done penance from the works of their hands, not to adore Devils and Idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk, 21 and have not done penance from their murders, nor from their sorceries, nor from their fornication, nor from their thefts.

Most understand all this of heretics. 9:1 a star have fallen: The fall of an arch heretic, as Arius, Luther, Calvin, out of the Church of God.  Which have the key of Hell to open and bring forth all the old condemned heresies buried before in the depth. 9:3 locusts: Innumerable petty heretics following heir masters after the opening and the smoke of the bottomless pit. 9:11 over them a king: The chief Master of heretics. 9:20 and the rest of men: Pagans, Infidels, and sinful impenitent Catholics must be condemned also.  have done penance: This phrase being alike in both Greek and Latin, signifying such sorrowful and penal repentance as causes a man to forsake his former sins and depart from them.

COMMENTARY 4. Nor any green thing. The Heretics never hurt or seduce the green tree, that is, such as have a living faith working by charity, but commonly they corrupt him in faith who would otherwise have perished for evil life, and him that is reprobate, that has neither the sign of the Cross (which is God's mark) in the forehead of his body, nor the note of election in his soul. 7. Prepared unto battle. Heretics being ever ready to contend, do pretend victory, and counterfeit gold: in shape, as men; as smooth and delicate as women, their tongues and pens full of gall and venom: their hearts unmoved: full of noise and shuffling: their doctrine as evil and full of poison, as the tail and sting of a scorpion; but they endure for a little season. 20. Idols of gold. Here again the heretic translators abuse the people, for idols saying images: this place being plain against the portraits of Heathen gods, which are here and in the 95th Psalm called Demonia, Devils.