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.