And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
Not hurt the grass ... neither any green thing, neither any tree - on which they ordinarily prey. Therefore not natural locusts. Their instinct is supernaturally restrained to mark the judgment as divine.
Those men which - `the men whosoever.'
In - `upon their forehead.' Thus this fifth trumpet is proved to follow the sealing in Revelation 7:1-17, under the sixth seal. None of the saints are hurt by these locusts; not true of the saints in Mohammed's attack, who is supposed to be meant by the locusts; for many believers fell in the Mohammedan invasions of Christendom.