Revelation 9:17 (KJV)

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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

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having.This appears to point out the scarlet, blue and yellow colours, for which the Turks have always been remarkable. The "four angels bound in the Euphrates" denote their four sultanies bordering on that river, where they were confined till after the period of the Crusades. The time for which they were prepared, "an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year," computing a year for each day, amounts to 391 years, 15 days; and from their first conquest over the Christians, A.D. 1281, to the taking of Cameniec from the Poles, A.D. 1672, which was the last conquest by which their dominion was extended, is exactly that period. Re 9:9

jacinth. Re 21:20

brimstone. Re 9:18 Re 14:10 Re 19:20 Re 21:8 Ge 19:24 Ps 11:6 Isa 30:33 Eze 33:22

as the. 1Ch 12:8 Isa 5:28 Isa 5:29

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