The star signifies self-derived intelligence which departs from God, thus it falls from heaven. The Swedenborgian New Church follows a spiritual interpretation of the star Wormwood based on other passages of scripture which mention gall and wormwood. Others point to Arius, the emperor Constantine, Origen or the ascetic monk Pelagius, who denied the doctrine of original sin. In the case of Wormwood, some historicist interpreters believe that this figure represents the army of the Huns as led by king Attila, pointing to chronological consistencies between the timeline of prophecy they have accepted and the history of the Huns' campaign in Europe. Various religious groups and figures, including Seventh-day Adventists and the theologians Matthew Henry and John Gill, regard the verses of Revelation 8 as symbolic references to past events in human history. Other Bible dictionaries and commentaries view the term as a reference to a celestial being for example, A Dictionary of the Holy Bible states that "the star called Wormwood seems to denote a mighty prince, or power of the air, the instrument, in its fall". Interpretations Ĭertain commentators have held that this "great star" represents one of several important figures in political or ecclesiastical history: Matthew Henry mentions Augustulus, a 5th-century emperor of the Western Roman Empire, and Pelagius, deemed a heretic at the Council of Ephesus. In the Book of Revelation, it refers to the water being turned into wormwood, i.e. The English rendering "wormwood" refers to the dark green oil produced by the plant, which was used to kill intestinal worms. ( Rev 8:10–11)Īpsinthos is believed to refer to a plant of the genus Artemisia, used metaphorically to mean something with a bitter taste. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many died from the water, because it was made bitter.
The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
The Greek word apsinthos, which is rendered with the English "wormwood", is mentioned only once in the New Testament, in the Book of Revelation: The Biblical Hebrew word לענה ( la'anah), translated into English as "wormwood", occurs eight times in the Hebrew Bible, always with the implication of bitterness. Wormwood (ἀψίνθιον apsinthion or ἄψινθος apsinthos in Greek) is a star or angel which appears in the Book of Revelation. Wormwood strikes the earth (Douce Apocalypse, late 13th century)
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