And when I thought with myself, sure now there is an end of the vision concerning the Jews, there is no more to be seen or prophesied of; the angel said unto me, that beyond this destruction of the temple and Jerusalem and Judæa under Titus, to which these last parts of the vision belonged, there was yet more matter of prophecy belonging to this people, what should yet further betide them from the Romans (after this destruction) by ensuing emperors, Adrian especially, and other kings and people, that should assist him in rooting out this nation. [c] many peoples] What ἐπὶ λαοῖς here signifies may be thus collected. The word λαός, people, is frequently taken for the Jews, and then here in the plural (see Acts iv. 25, and note [f] on Rev. xi.) it will do the same; or else farther, it may signify this people in all their dispersions, in Africa and Egypt and Greece, &c., where the judgments of God should find them out, as many as continued obdurate, according to that of Christ's prediction, that wheresoever the carcass was, the Roman eagles should congregate and assemble unto them. Then for ἐπὶ, that must rather be rendered of, or concerning, (according to the looser use of the Hebrew על, answerable to it,) than before. And then προφητεύειν ἐπὶ λαοῖς, is an easy and ordinary phrase, to denote the matter of the prophecy, and not the auditors of it; as when Ezek. xxxii. 2. it is said, take up a lamentation, על פרעה, it is not before, but concerning And a multitude of the Jews were killed by them in their passage through the country. And the rear of this army was as terrible as the front, came, after wasting and destroying, as the front had done, ver. 18. And so the whole army was like that kind of serpent which hath an head in the tail, and wounds as dangerously with that as with the other.