Revelation 9:20,21 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues That is, the Latin Church, which pretty well escaped these calamities; yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils Daimonia, demons, or second mediatory gods, as it hath largely been shown before, saints and angels; and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and wood From hence it is evident, that those calamities were inflicted upon the Christians for their idolatries. As the eastern churches were first in the crime, so they were first likewise in the punishment. At first they were visited by the plague of the Saracens, but this working no change or reformation, they were again chastised by the still greater plague of the Othmans; were partly overthrown by the former, and were entirely ruined by the latter. What churches were then remaining, which were guilty of the like idolatry, but the western, or those in communion with Rome? And the western were not at all reclaimed by the ruin of the eastern, but persisted still in the worship of saints and (what is worse) the worship of images, which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk And the world is witness to the completion of this prophecy to this day. Neither repented they of their murders Their persecutions and inquisitions; nor of their sorceries Their pretended miracles and revelations; nor of their fornications Their public stews and uncleanness; nor of their thefts Their exactions and impositions on mankind: and they are as notorious for their licentiousness and wickedness, as for their superstition and idolatry. As they therefore refused to take warning by the two former woes, the third wo, as we shall see, will fall with vengeance upon them.