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Turbans as Crowns (Sale, The Koran, 1734)

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Text:  "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." Revelation 9:7 Quote: [...] it being an usual saying among them, that God had bestowed four peculiar things on the Arabs , that their turbands should be to them instead of diadems, their tents instead of walls and houses, their swords instead of intrenchments, and their poems instead of written laws. Sale, George, tr., The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the original Arabic; with explanatory notes, taken from the most approved commentators, to which is prefixed a preliminary discourse , London: Printed by C. Ackers, for J. Wilcox, 1734, p. 29 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/Sale1734Koran Book Images:

Turbans as Crowns (Pococke, Carmen Tograi Poetae, 1661)

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Text:  "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." Revelation 9:7 Quote: Deum quatuor Arabibus peculiaria fecisse jactitabant, [...] ut nempe quod aliis coronae et diademata , hoc Arabibus tiarae et capitum fasciae essent; quod aliis domus et muri , hoc illis tentoria ; quod aliis sepes , hoc illis gladii ; quod aliis libri et pandectae , hoc illis poemata sua praestarent. [...] Al-Tughra'i, Mu'ayyad al-Din Abu Isma‘il al-Husayn ibn Ali; Edward Pococke, tr., Lamiyyah al- Ajam (Lamiato'l Ajam), Carmen Tograi, Poetae Arabis Doctissimi; una cum versione Latina et notis praxin illius exhibentibus; opera Eduardi Pocockii; Accessit tractatus de prosodia Arabica , Oxonii (Oxfordshire): Apud Ric. Davis, Bibliopolam; Excudit Hen. Hall, Typis Arabicis Acad., 1661, p. 234 . Online Source:   boo...

The Structure (or two) of Revelation 9:7-9

Study: 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 . And they had hair as the hair of women , and their teeth were as the teeth of lions . 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 . Revelation 9:7-9 Structure: 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 . And they had hair as the hair of women , and their teeth were as the teeth of lions . And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound [ of the locusts ] of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle . Notes: the shapes and sound of the locust are horses in battle and gold & lion is Babylon ...

Turbans as Crowns (Faber, A dissertation on the prophecies, 1808)

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Text:  "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." Revelation 9:7 Quote: [...] The locusts had on their heads as it were crowns like gold : the Arabs have constantly worn turbans; and even boast that they wear, as their common attire, those ornaments which among other people are the peculiar badges of royalty [...] Faber, George Stanley, A dissertation on the prophecies, that have been fulfilled, are now fulfilling, or will herafter be fulfilled, relative to the great period of 1260 years; the papal and Mohammedan apostacies; the tyrannical reign of Antichrist, or the infidel power; and the restoration of the Jews, to which is added, an appendix ,  1st Amer. fr. 2nd Lon. ed., 2 vols., Boston: Published by Andrews and Cummings;  Greenough and Stebbins, Printers, 1808, vols. 1, p. 291 . ...

Who are the locust of Revelation 9:1-11?, pt. 1

Key Text: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them. And the shapes of the locusts w...

locust in the Old Testament (Davidson, Concordance of the Hebrew and Chaldee Scriptures, 1876)

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Text:  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. [...] 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. Revelation 9:3,7 Quote: [arbah] noun masc. locust , perh. from flying in close connection, or from suddenly appearing as an ambush: otherwise derived from [] Ex. 10.4.    10.14.    10.19. Ju. 6.5. 1 Ki. 8.37. 2 Ch. 6.28. Ps. 105.34. [] Ex. 10.13.    10.14.    10.19. Le. 11.22. De. 28.38. Joel 1.4.    1.4.    2.25. [] Ex. 10.12. [] Ju. 7.12. Job 39.20. Ps. 109.23. Na. 3.15.    3.17. [] Ps. 78.46. Pr. 30.27. [] Je. 46.23. Davidson, Benjamin, A concordance of the Hebrew and Chaldee Scriptures , London: Samuel Bagster and Sons, 1876, p...

The locust of Revelation in the New Testament (Wigram, Englishman's Greek concordance of the New Testament, 1844)

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Text:   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. [...]   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. Rev. 9:3,7 Quote: ἀκρίς,  akris. Mat. 3: 4. his meat was locusts and wild honey. Mar. 1: 6. he did eat locusts and wild honey; Rev. 9: 3. out of the smoke locusts upon the Rev. 9: 7. the shapes of the locusts (were) like unto Wigram, George Vicesimus, The Englishman's Greek concordance of the New Testament, being an attempt at a verbal connexion between the Greek and the English texts including a concordance to the proper names with indexes Greek-English, and English-Greek , 2nd ed., London: Longman, Green, Brown, and Longmans, 1844, p. 26 . Online Source:   archive.org/details/englishmansg...