Latin Commentaries on Revelation (Biblia.com)

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Interest in the book of Revelation in the Western tradition is stronger and earlier than that in the East. The earliest full commentary on the Apocalypse is that of Victorinus of Petovium written in the mid to late third century by the earliest exegete to write in Latin. Victorinus interpreted Revelation in millennialist terms, a mode of interpretation already evident in works by Irenaeus, as...

be crowns of gold.” The twenty-four elders, in whom the church is represented, had crowns of gold. These locusts, however, have crowns that only appear to be of gold, for they represent the heretics who merely imitate the church. They had the hair of women, it says, and by this it does not merely wish to show the inconstancy characteristic of woman, but also that of both sexes. Their tails were similar to those of scorpions, and in these tails we are to recognize the rulers and leaders of the heretics.

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