Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
were—"which had been prepared" [TREGELLES rightly].
for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year—rather as Greek, "for (that is, against) THE hour, and day, and month, and year," namely, appointed by God. The Greek article (teen), put once only before all the periods, implies that the hour in the day, and the day in the month, and the month in the year, and the year itself, had been definitely fixed by God. The article would have been omitted had a sum-total of periods been specified, namely, three hundred ninety-one years and one month (the period from AD 1281, when the Turks first conquered the Christians, to 1672, their last conquest of them, since which last date their empire has declined).
slay—not merely to "hurt" (Revelation 9:10), as in the fifth trumpet.
third part—(See on Revelation 8:7-12).
of men—namely, of earthy men, Revelation 8:13, "inhabiters of the earth," as distinguished from God's sealed people (of which the sealed of Israel, Revelation 7:1-8, form the nucleus).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Revelation 9:15:
Daniel 8:9
Revelation 11:14
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