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Eureka

AN EXPOSITION OF THE APOCALYPSE
Sixth Edition, 1915
By Dr. John Thomas (first edition written 1861)

 

 

Chapter 9

Section 1 Subsection 14

Abaddon -- Apollyon


 
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But why are we informed that the destroying power is called "Abaddon in Hebrew, and Apollyon in Greek," and not told what it would be called in Latin, or any other tongue? The answer is, because it was commissioned primarily and chiefly against the countries to which the Hebrew and Greek belonged. We are not told what its name was in Latin, because it was not sent against Italy to "torment" the Italians. It was the Greek empire, which included Palestine and Syria, upon which the locusts were to fall with their most destructive energy.

There is another instance where our attention is claimed to the name of a thing "in the Hebrew," and for the same reason. In ch. xvi. 16, the sixth angel-power gathers the kings of the earth and of the whole habitable, "into the place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon." This is equivalent to saying that Armageddon is in the land where Hebrew was wont to be spoken. So "the abyss," where the destroying angel was to torment, was the Holy Land and the Greek empire, in which he would help to "set up an abomination making desolate 1,290 years" (Dan. xii. 11).

"THE death" which "THE men" of the apostasy so earnestly desired (ver. 6) was not natural death. This death did not flee from them, but pursued them on every side, and overtook them by thousands. It was "the death" which could only be arrived at by the woe-plagues of the sixth trumpet, which was for the slaying of "the third of the men" of the catholic world. It was political death they desired, the bitterness of which they had not experienced. Subject to this, they hoped to find peace and protection from the conqueror, who would cease to torment and injure them as enemies and foreigners to his rule and institutions. "The death" at length came in aftertimes; and, when it came, it reduced "the men" of the Greek catholic superstition and empire to the condition of Rayahs -- mere dogs and slaves in the estimation of their Ottoman superiors. In the depth of this abyss, they have been prostrated without political life for upwards of four hundred years. This is their present condition, and will so continue to be, until "Yahweh shall have bent Judah for himself, filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and made Zion as the sword of a mighty man." This will change the situation, and be "life from the dead," not to the Greeks only, but "to the world" (Zech. ix. 13; Rom. xi. 15).

 

 


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