Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 9:5

5 And to them it was given that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when he striketh a man .

Supposing the Saracens and Turks here meant by the Locusts, here arise two Difficulties: 1. How it can be said of them, That they had no Power to kill, but only torment Men. 2. How their time is set for five Months, whereas they have already tormented the World more than a thousand years; and how long they shall yet continue to do so, God only knowns: they are both great Difficulties Alsted tells us, That Mahomet began 622, and the Saracens entred Spain 714, where they were called Moors, and kept Possession of that Kingdom 800 years, and that 719, they besieged Constantinople with a Navy of 3000 Ships, and 300000 Land-Soldiers; that before this time they had made themselves Masters of Arabia, Palestina, Syria, Persia, Egypt, Africa, and Spain; and in 726, carried into France an Army consisting of 375000, where they were beaten by Charles Martell, Father to King Pipin. Mr. Mede telteth us, that the Saracens grievously vexed the Countries subject to the Roman Empire, but could not take either Rome or Constantinople. The latter was taken by the Turks, 1457. commanded by Sultan Mahomet. This is but a hard Interpretation of those words, that they should not kill them; which, it may be, hath made some other Interpreters chuse to interpret these Locusts to signifie the Roman Clergy, who indeed did not kill Men for Religion, of many years. But both the one and the other tormented the World enough, and that like a Scorpion, which pierceth a Man with a venomous Sting, and puts him to a great Pain: For the five Months, we shall again meet with them, v. 10.