SEV Biblia, Chapter 9:20
Y los otros hombres que no fueron muertos con estas plagas, no se enmendaron de las obras de sus manos, para que no adorasen a los demonios, y a las imgenes de oro, y de plata, y de metal, y de piedra, y de madera; las cuales no pueden ver, ni oír, ni andar.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Revelation 9:20
Verse 20. Yet repented not] The commission which these horsemen had was against idolaters; and though multitudes of them were destroyed, yet the residue continued their senseless attachment to dumb idols, and therefore heavier judgments might be expected. These things are supposed to refer to the desolation brought upon the Greek Church by the Ottomans, who entirely ruined that Church and the Greek empire. The Church which was then remaining was the Latin or western Church, which was not at all corrected by the judgments which fell upon the eastern Church, but continued its senseless adoration of angels, saints, relics, &c., and does so to the present day. If, therefore, God's wrath be kindled against such, this Church has much to fear.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 20. And the rest of men which were not killed by these plagues , etc.] By whom are meant the western antichristian party; and such of them as were not plagued, harassed, and destroyed by the Turks, as in Germany, at least some parts of it, France, Spain, Italy, etc. yet repented not of the works of their hands : their idols, their images of saints departed, which their hands had made; the goodness of God in saving them from the depredations of the Turks, should have led them to repentance for their idolatrous worship of images, but it did not: that they should not worship devils ; or demons, a sort of deities with the Heathens, that mediated between the superior gods and men; and here design angels and saints departed, which the Papists worship, and use as mediators of intercession for them; and this is no other than worshipping of devils, in God's account, and is downright idolatry, and the doctrine of it is the doctrine of devils: and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood ; which are the several materials of which the Popish images are made: and what aggravates the stupidity of the worshippers of these images, and of the persons represented by them, is, that these are such which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk ; can neither see their persons, nor hear their prayers, nor stir one foot to their help and assistance; (see <19B504> Psalm 115:4-7).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 13-21 - The sixth angel sounded, and here the power of the Turks seems the subject. Their time is limited. They not only slew in war, but brough a poisonous and ruinous religion. The antichristian generation repente not under these dreadful judgments. From this sixth trumpet learn tha God can make one enemy of the church a scourge and a plague to another The idolatry in the remains of the eastern church and elsewhere, an the sins of professed Christians, render this prophecy and it fulfilment more wonderful. And the attentive reader of Scripture an history, may find his faith and hope strengthened by events, which i other respects fill his heart with anguish and his eyes with tears while he sees that men who escape these plagues, repent not of their evil works, but go on with idolatries, wickedness, and cruelty, til wrath comes upon them to the utmost __________________________________________________________________
Greek Textus Receptus
και 2532 οι 3588 λοιποι 3062 των 3588 ανθρωπων 444 οι 3739 ουκ 3756 απεκτανθησαν 615 5681 εν 1722 ταις 3588 πληγαις 4127 ταυταις 3778 {1: ουτε 3777 } {2: ου 3756 } μετενοησαν 3340 5656 εκ 1537 των 3588 εργων 2041 των 3588 χειρων 5495 αυτων 846 ινα 2443 μη 3361 προσκυνησωσιν 4352 5661 τα 3588 δαιμονια 1140 και 2532 ειδωλα 1497 τα 3588 χρυσα 5552 και 2532 τα 3588 αργυρα 693 και 2532 τα 3588 χαλκα 5470 και 2532 τα 3588 λιθινα 3035 και 2532 τα 3588 ξυλινα 3585 α 3739 ουτε 3777 βλεπειν 991 5721 δυναται 1410 5736 ουτε 3777 ακουειν 191 5721 ουτε 3777 περιπατειν 4043 5721
Vincent's NT Word Studies
20. Repented not of the works (oute metenohsan ek twn ergwn). Lit., "Out of the works." The preposition ejk out of with repent, denotes a moral change involving an abandonment of evil works. See on Matthew iii. 2; xxi. 29.
Works of their hands. Not their course of life, but the idols which their hands had made. Compare Deut. iv. 28; Psalm cxxxiv. 15; Acts vii. 4. Devils (daimonia). More properly, demons. See on Mark i. 34. Compare 1 Cor. x. 20; 1 Tim. iv. 1.
See, hear, walk. Compare Dan. v. 23.
