Original Douay–Rheims AnnotationsRevelation 9
English College of Douai–Rheims
Read Revelation 9 in the BibleRevelation 9:7
Prepared into 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 venin: their hearts obdurate: full of noise and shuffling: their doctrine as pestiferous and full of poison, as the tail and sting of a scorpion, but they endure for a little season.
- ◦ The manifold hypocrisy of Heretics.
Revelation 9:20
Idols of gold.
Here again the new Translators abuse the people, for idols saying images: ◦ the place being plainly against the portraits of the Heathen Gods, which are here and in the Psalm 95 called, dæmonia, Devils.
- ◦ Heret. translation.
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Revelation 9:4
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 should otherwise have perished for ill life, ◦ and him that is reprobate, that hath 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.