16. Compare with these two hundred million, Ps 68:17; Da 7:10. The hosts here are evidently, from their numbers and their appearance (Re 9:17), not merely human hosts, but probably infernal, though constrained to work out God's will (compare Re 9:1, 2).
and I heard—A, B, Aleph, Vulgate, Syriac, Coptic, and Cyprian omit "and."