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In this chapter we have an account of the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets, the appearances that attended them, and the events that were to follow; the fifth trumpet (Re 9:1-12), the sixth, Re 9:13-21.
1-12
The Seven Trumpets (95 AD)
七号（公元95年）
¹ 第五位天使吹号，我就看见一个星从天落到地上，有无底坑的钥匙赐给他。
² 他开了无底坑，便有烟从坑里往上冒，好像大火炉的烟；日头和天空都因这烟昏暗了。
³ 有蝗虫从烟中出来，飞到地上；有能力赐给它们，好像地上蝎子的能力一样，
⁴ 并且吩咐它们说，不可伤害地上的草和各样青物，并一切树木，惟独要伤害额上没有神印记的人。
⁵ 但不许蝗虫害死他们，只叫他们受痛苦五个月。这痛苦就像蝎子螫人的痛苦一样。
⁶ 在那些日子，人要求死，决不得死；愿意死，死却远避他们。
⁷ 蝗虫的形状，好像预备出战的马一样，头上戴的好像金冠冕，脸面好像男人的脸面，
⁸ 头发像女人的头发，牙齿像狮子的牙齿。
⁹ 胸前有甲，好像铁甲。它们翅膀的声音，好像许多车马奔跑上阵的声音。
¹⁰ 有尾巴像蝎子，尾巴上的毒钩能伤人五个月。
¹¹ 有无底坑的使者作它们的王，按着希伯来话，名叫亚巴顿，希腊话，名叫亚玻伦。
¹² 第一样灾祸过去了，还有两样灾祸要来。
第五号吹响之时，当留意的事有：1.「一个星从天落到地上」。有人认为这星代表基督教会中某位杰出的监督，某位教会的天使；因为按着牧者称为星辰的同样说法，教会也称为天；但这是谁，注释家们并不一致。有人认为是指罗马主教波尼法修三世，他借皇帝福卡斯之恩宠，自封为普世主教；福卡斯既是国中的篡位者与暴君，便允许波尼法修在教会中如此，作为他奉承的报酬。2. 这坠落的星「有无底坑的钥匙赐给他」。他既已不再是基督的仆人，便成为敌基督——魔鬼的仆人；并因基督的许可——基督既已从他手中夺去教会的钥匙——他便作魔鬼的狱卒，开放地狱的权势，攻击基督的众教会。3. 无底坑一开，「便有……烟往上冒」，使日头和天空昏暗。魔鬼是黑暗的权势；地狱是黑暗之处。魔鬼借着弄瞎人的眼目、熄灭亮光与知识、并助长无知与错谬来推行他的计谋。他先迷惑人，然后毁灭人；可怜的灵魂在黑暗中跟随他，否则他们不敢跟随。4. 从这暗烟中出来一群蝗虫——埃及的灾殃之一，就是魔鬼的差役，由敌基督率领，并敌基督各派的全班乌合之众，为要助长迷信、拜偶像、错谬与残忍；这些人因着神公义的许可，得着权柄伤害那些额上没有神印记的人。5. 他们所要加的伤害不是身体上的，而是属灵的伤害。他们不会以军旅之火烧杀尽净；树木青草都不受损害，他们所伤害的人也不会被杀；这不是逼迫，而是在他们灵魂中暗下的毒与感染，要夺去他们的纯洁，然后夺去他们的平安。异端是灵魂中的毒，缓慢而隐秘地发作，结局却是苦涩。6. 他们连那些额上有神印记的人都无力加害。神的拣选、有效、分别的恩典，必保守他的百姓免于全然并最终的背道。7. 这些地狱使者的权柄在时间上受了限制：「五个月」，一个确定的时期，且是短暂的时期，尽管多短我们不得而知。福音的时代有其界限，诱惑的时代也有其界限。8. 虽然短暂，却极其剧烈，以至于那些在自己良心中感受此毒之害的人，必厌弃自己的性命，启 9:6。「伤心之歌谁能担当呢？」9. 这些蝗虫形状怪异，体型巨大，启 9:7,8 等等。它们如预备出战的马一般装备齐全，以行其工。(1) 它们佯装大有权威，似乎稳操胜券：「头上戴的好像金冠冕」；这不是真的，而是冒牌的权威。(2) 它们有智慧与精明的表象，「脸面好像男人的脸面」，灵却是魔鬼的灵。(3) 它们有种种看似美丽的诱惑，要网罗并污秽人的心思——「头发像女人的头发」；它们的敬拜方式极尽华美装饰。(4) 它们虽有女人的温柔外貌，却有「狮子的牙齿」，实在是残忍的活物。(5) 它们有属地权势的护卫与保护——「铁甲」。(6) 它们在世上制造极大的喧哗；它们从一国飞到另一国，其飞行的声响如战车战马的大军。(7) 它们虽然起初以美好的外貌谄媚奉承人，尾巴上却有钩；它们可憎之杯中所盛的，虽然入口甘甜，至终却要如蛇咬、如毒蛇刺。(8) 这地狱队旅的君王与统帅在此被描述为：[1.] 是天使；他本性上是天使，曾是天上的天使之一。[2.]「无底坑的使者」；他仍是天使，却是堕落的天使，坠入那又大又深、无以恢复的无底坑。[3.] 在这些地狱之境中，他算是君王与掌权者，黑暗的权势都在他的辖制与号令之下。[4.] 他的真名是「亚巴顿、亚玻伦——毁灭者」，因为他的事业、他的计谋、他的职事就是毁灭，他殷勤从事，大有成就，并以可怖的地狱之乐为乐；正是为这毁灭之工，他差遣他的使者和军队去毁灭人的灵魂。至此我们看见一样灾祸的终结；一处完毕，另一处便开始。
英文原文
The Seven Trumpets (95 AD)
¹ And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.
² And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.
³ And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
⁴ And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
⁵ And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man.
⁶ And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.
⁷ And the shapes of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle; and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.
⁸ And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.
⁹ And 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.
¹⁰ And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.
¹¹ And 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.
¹² One woe is past; and, behold, there come two woes more hereafter.
Upon the sounding of this trumpet, the things to be observed are, 1. A star falling from heaven to the earth. Some think this star represents some eminent bishop in the Christian church, some angel of the church; for, in the same way of speaking by which pastors are called stars, the church is called heaven; but who this is expositors do not agree. Some understand it of Boniface the third bishop of Rome, who assumed the title of universal bishop, by the favour of the emperor Phocas, who, being a usurper and tyrant in the state, allowed Boniface to be so in the church, as the reward of his flattery. 2. To this fallen star was given the key of the bottomless pit. Having now ceased to be a minister of Christ, he becomes the antichrist, the minister of the devil; and by the permission of Christ, who had taken from him the keys of the church, he becomes the devil's turnkey, to let loose the powers of hell against the churches of Christ. 3. Upon the opening of the bottomless pit there arose a great smoke, which darkened the sun and the air. The devils are the powers of darkness; hell is the place of darkness. The devil carries on his designs by blinding the eyes of men, by extinguishing light and knowledge, and promoting ignorance and error. He first deceives men, and then destroys them; wretched souls follow him in the dark, or they durst not follow him. 4. Out of this dark smoke there came a swarm of locusts, one of the plagues of Egypt, the devil's emissaries headed by the antichrist, all the rout and rabble of antichristian orders, to promote superstition, idolatry, error, and cruelty; and these had, by the just permission of God, power to hurt those who had not the mark of God in their foreheads. 5. The hurt they were to do them was not a bodily, but a spiritual hurt. They should not in a military way destroy all by fire and sword; the trees and the grass should be untouched, and those they hurt should not be slain; it should not be a persecution, but a secret poison and infection in their souls, which should rob them of their purity, and afterwards of their peace. Heresy is a poison in the soul, working slowly and secretly, but will be bitterness in the end. 6. They had no power so much as to hurt those who had the seal of God in their foreheads. God's electing, effectual, distinguishing grace will preserve his people from total and final apostasy. 7. The power given to these factors for hell is limited in point of time: five months, a certain season, and but a short season, though how short we cannot tell. Gospel-seasons have their limits, and times of seduction are limited too. 8. Though it would be short, it would be very sharp, insomuch that those who were made to feel the malignity of this poison in their consciences would be weary of their lives, Re 9:6. A wounded spirit who can bear? 9. These locusts were of a monstrous size and shape, Re 9:7,8, etc. They were equipped for their work like horses prepared to battle. (1.) They pretended to great authority, and seemed to be assured of victory: They had crowns like gold on their heads; it was not a true, but a counterfeit authority. (2.) They had the show of wisdom and sagacity, the faces of men, though the spirit of devils. (3.) They had all the allurements of seeming beauty, to ensnare and defile the minds of men—hair like women; their way of worship was very gaudy and ornamental. (4.) Though they appeared with the tenderness of women, they had the teeth of lions, were really cruel creatures. (5.) They had the defence and protection of earthly powers—breastplates of iron. (6.) They made a mighty noise in the world; they flew about from one country to another, and the noise of their motion was like that of an army with chariots and horses. (7.) Though at first they soothed and flattered men with a fair appearance, there was a sting in their tails; the cup of their abominations contained that which, though luscious at first, would at length bite like a serpent and sting like an adder. (8.) The king and commander of this hellish squadron is here described, [1.] As an angel; so he was by nature, an angel, once one of the angels of heaven. [2.] The angel of the bottomless pit; an angel still, but a fallen angel, fallen into the bottomless pit, vastly large, and out of which there is no recovery. [3.] In these infernal regions he is a sort of prince and governor, and has the powers of darkness under his rule and command. [4.] His true name is Abaddon, Apollyon—a destroyer, for that is his business, his design, and employment, to which he diligently attends, in which he is very successful, and takes a horrid hellish pleasure; it is about this destroying work that he sends out his emissaries and armies to destroy the souls of men. And now here we have the end of one woe; and where one ends another begins.
13-21
The Seventh Trumpet (95 AD)
第七号（公元95年）
¹³ 第六位天使吹号，我就听见有声音从神面前金坛的四角出来， ¹⁴ 吩咐那吹号的第六位天使，说：把那捆绑在伯拉大河的四个天使释放了。 ¹⁵ 那四个天使就被释放；他们原是预备好了，到某年某月某日某时，要杀人的三分之一。 ¹⁶ 马军有二万万；他们的数目我听见了。 ¹⁷ 我在异象中看见那些马和骑马的，骑马的胸前有甲如火，与紫玛瑙并硫磺。马的头好像狮子头，有火、有烟、有硫磺，从马的口中出来。 ¹⁸ 口中所出来的火与烟并硫磺，这三样灾杀了人的三分之一。 ¹⁹ 这马的能力是在口里和尾巴上；因这尾巴像蛇，有头，以此害人。 ²⁰ 其余未曾被这些灾所杀的人仍旧不悔改自己手所作的，还是去拜鬼魔和那些不能看、不能听、不能走，金、银、铜、木、石的偶像。 ²¹ 又不悔改他们那些凶杀、邪术、奸淫、偷窃的事。
这里让我们思想这异象的序言，然后是异象本身。
一、这异象的序言：「有声音从金坛的四角出来」（启9:13,14）。在此请留意：1. 教会仇敌的权能受到拘束，直到神发话释放他们。2. 当列国罪恶满盈当受刑罚时，那些先前受拘束的神怒气之器皿便被释放到他们身上（启9:14）。3. 神用来刑罚一个民族的器皿，有时可能离他们极远，以致他们不以为有危险。这四位审判的使者被捆绑在伯拉大河，离欧洲列国极远。土耳其的权势正是在此兴起，这看来正是这异象所记述的内容。
二、异象本身：「那曾捆绑在伯拉大河的四个天使如今被释放了」（启9:15,16）。在此请留意：1. 他们军事行动与执行之时，限定在「某时、某日、某月、某年」。预言中关于时间的字样，我们难以明白；但总的来说，时间是固定的，何时开始、何时结束，以及执行要达到何等程度——甚至到地上居民的三分之一。神要使人的忿怒成为对他的赞美，剩下的忿怒他要约束。2. 那要执行这大使命的军队被点阅，数目共有马军「二万万」；但步兵有多少我们只能猜测。总的来说，它告诉我们伊斯兰帝国的军队必然极其庞大；事实也确是如此。3. 他们可怕的装束与外貌（启9:17）。那些马凶猛如狮，急欲冲入战阵；骑在马上的人也披戴光亮贵重的铠甲，并一切军事勇敢、热心与决心的标记。4. 他们在那已成为敌基督的罗马帝国中所造成的大屠杀与荒凉：其中三分之一被杀；他们只走到他们的使命所容许的地步，不能越过。5. 他们用以造成如此屠杀的兵器，被描述为「火、烟与硫磺」，从马的口中而出，尾巴上又有毒刺。米德先生认为这是对火炮的预言——那些造成如此毁灭的残忍器具；他指出：这些最先由土耳其人在围攻君士坦丁堡时使用，因新奇可畏而极其恐怖，造成极大杀伤。无论如何，这里似乎有所暗指，正如前一个异象所言：敌基督既有他属灵性质的兵力——如蝎子一般以错误与偶像崇拜毒害人的心灵——照样那被兴起刑罚敌基督背道的土耳其人，也有他们的蝎子与毒刺，来伤害杀害那些曾杀害许多灵魂之人的身体。6. 请留意敌基督之辈在这些可怕审判之下的不悔改（启9:20）；其余未被杀的人仍不悔改，仍坚持那些使神如此严严刑罚他们的罪，那就是：（1）他们的偶像崇拜；他们不肯丢弃他们的偶像，虽然这些偶像对他们毫无益处，「不能看、不能听、不能走」。（2）他们的凶杀（启9:21），就是他们向圣徒与基督的仆人所行的。教皇制是流血的宗教，似乎决意继续如此。（3）他们的邪术；他们有他们的咒语、魔法、驱魔的仪式等事。（4）他们的奸淫；他们既容许属灵的污秽，也容许肉体的污秽，并在自己和别人身上促进之。（5）他们的偷窃；他们用不正当的手段积聚了大量财富，损害并使许多家庭、城邑、君王、民族陷入贫穷。这些就是敌基督及其党羽明目张胆的罪行；虽然神已从天上显明他的忿怒反对他们，他们却顽梗、刚硬、不悔改——而且是审判性地如此，因为他们必被毁灭。
三、从这第六号我们学到：1. 神能使教会的一个仇敌成为另一个仇敌的鞭笞与灾祸。2. 那作万军之主的，有极多的军队听他调遣，服事他自己的旨意。3. 最可怕的权势也有其界限，不能越过。4. 当神的审判在地上之时，他期望地上的居民悔改罪恶、学习公义。5. 在神审判之下的不悔改，是使罪人灭亡的罪孽；因为神在哪里施行审判，他必在那里得胜。
英文原文
The Seventh Trumpet (95 AD)
¹³ And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before 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, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.
¹⁶ And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.
¹⁷ And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone.
¹⁸ By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.
¹⁹ 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.
²⁰ And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils, and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
²¹ Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries, nor of their fornication, nor of their thefts.
Here let us consider the preface to this vision, and then the vision itself.
I. The preface to this vision: A voice was heard from the horns of the golden altar, Re 9:13,14. Here observe, 1. The power of the church's enemies is restrained till God gives the word to have them turned loose. 2. When nations are ripe for punishment, those instruments of God's anger that were before restrained are let loose upon them, Re 9:14. 3. The instruments that God makes use of to punish a people may sometimes lie at a great distance from them, so that no danger may be apprehended from them. These four messengers of divine judgment lay bound in the river Euphrates, a great way from the European nations. Here the Turkish power had its rise, which seems to be the story of this vision.
II. The vision itself: And the four angels that had been bound in the great river Euphrates were now loosed, Re 9:15,16. And here observe, 1. The time of their military operations and executions is limited to an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year. Prophetic characters of time are hardly to be understood by us; but in general the time is fixed to an hour, when it shall begin and when it shall end; and how far the execution shall prevail, even to a third part of the inhabitants of the earth. God will make the wrath of man praise him, and the remainder of wrath he will restrain. 2. The army that was to execute this great commission is mustered, and the number found to be of horsemen two hundred thousand thousand; but we are left to guess what the infantry must be. In general, it tells us, the armies of the Mahomedan empire should be vastly great; and so it is certain they were. 3. Their formidable equipage and appearance, Re 9:17. As the horses were fierce, like lions, and eager to rush into the battle, so those who sat upon them were clad in bright and costly armour, with all the ensigns of martial courage, zeal, and resolution. 4. The vast havoc and desolation that they made in the Roman empire, which had now become antichristian: A third part of them were killed; they went as far as their commission suffered them, and they could go no further. 5. Their artillery, by which they made such slaughter, described by fire, smoke, and brimstone, issuing out of the mouths of their horses, and the stings that were in their tails. It is Mr. Mede's opinion that this is a prediction of great guns, those instruments of cruelty which make such destruction: he observes, These were first used by the Turks at the siege of Constantinople, and, being new and strange, were very terrible, and did great execution. However, here seems to be an allusion to what is mentioned in the former vision, that, as antichrist had his forces of a spiritual nature, like scorpions poisoning the minds of men with error and idolatry, so the Turks, who were raised up to punish the antichristian apostasy, had their scorpions and their stings too, to hurt and kill the bodies of those who had been the murderers of so many souls. 6. Observe the impenitency of the antichristian generation under these dreadful judgments (Re 9:20); the rest of the men who were not killed repented not, they still persisted in those sins for which God was so severely punishing them, which were, (1.) Their idolatry; they would not cast away their images, though they could do them no good, could not see, nor hear, nor walk. (2.) Their murders (Re 9:21), which they had committed upon the saints and servants of Christ. Popery is a bloody religion, and seems resolved to continue such. (3.) Their sorceries; they have their charms, and magic arts, and rites in exorcism and other things. (4.) Their fornication; they allow both spiritual and carnal impurity, and promote it in themselves and others. (5.) Their thefts; they have by unjust means heaped together a vast deal of wealth, to the injury and impoverishing of families, cities, princes, and nations. These are the flagrant crimes of antichrist and his agents; and, though God has revealed his wrath from heaven against them, they are obstinate, hardened, and impenitent, and judicially so, for they must be destroyed.
III. From this sixth trumpet we learn, 1. God can make one enemy of the church to be a scourge and plague to another. 2. He who is the Lord of hosts has vast armies at his command, to serve his own purposes. 3. The most formidable powers have limits set them, which they cannot transgress. 4. When God's judgments are in the earth, he expects the inhabitants thereof should repent of sin, and learn righteousness. 5. Impenitency under divine judgments is an iniquity that will be the ruin of sinners; for where God judges he will overcome.
本章记述第五位、第六位天使吹号，伴随吹号的异象，以及随后将发生的事：第五号（启 9:1-12），第六号在启 9:13-21。