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AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
Sixth Edition, 1915
By Dr. John Thomas (first edition written 1861)
Chapter
Section Subsection
"The Rest Of The Men"
In the twentieth verse, the Spirit refers to hoi loipoi ton anthropon, "the rest of the men who were not killed by these plagues." The to triton ton anthropon, the third of the men were killed by the plagues. The former class who were not killed, though filled with consternation at the fate of "the third," still flourished in political existence. The fourth Euphratean angel-power, though it injured them greatly in its wars upon them, was unable to kill them, as he had slain their brethren of "the third." The others, hoi loipoi, inhabit all those countries of the Roman orb not included in the Ottoman empire, or fourth Euphratean angel dominion. They are known as "the Latins," who in ch. xiii. 4,5, are said to worship the beast, and to be subject to his Mouth, which speaks great things and blasphemies. These are said in ch. ix. 20, to worship the Daemonials and idols, the works of their hands. Notwithstanding the signal overthrow and political annihilation of their daemon and image-worshipping brethren of the eastern third, they, the Latins of the west, still continued the same abomination, as at this day. Hence, the work of judgment ceased not with the death of the third; but continues still, and will continue, until all "the daemons" are cast out, and "the idols" are thrown to the moles and the bats, and Yahweh alone is exalted in the glory of his majesty and might (Isa. ii. 17-21).