“For their power is in their mouth, and in their tails: for their tails were like unto serpents, and had heads, and with them they do hurt.”
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails; for their tails are like serpents, having heads, and with them they wound — the horses' power centralizes in mouth (word, threat) and tail (serpent-headed, poisonous deception). The serpent-tails echo Satan's tail sweeping stars (12:4) and emphasize demonic cunning.
Church Fathers on Revelation 9:19
“And I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is in the presence of God, saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet, Loose the four angels.” That is, the four corners of the earth which hold the four winds. “Which are bound in the great river Euphrates.” By the corners of the earth, or the four winds across the river Euphrates, are meant four nations, because to every nation is sent an angel; as said the law, “He determined them by the number of the…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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