Cambridge Greek Testament Commentary
Revelation 13:17,18
17, 18. THE NUMBER OF THE NAME OF THE BEAST
17, 18. THE NUMBER OF THE NAME OF THE BEAST
REVELATION 13:17 kai, {A} The absence of kai, in a* C about 25 minuscules (including 1611) syrph, h copsa, bo _al_ appears to be a secondary modification arising from misunderstanding the relationshi...
Verse Revelation 13:17. _AND THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL, SAVE HE THAT HAD_ _THE MARK_] "If any," observes Bishop Newton, "dissent from the stated and authorized forms; they are condemned and excom...
AND THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL - That is, this mighty power would claim jurisdiction over the traffic of the world, and endeavor to make it tributary to its own purposes. Compare Revelation 18:11,...
THE SECOND BEAST. This represents the spirit of paganism, and more particularly the priestly system which was organised to enforce Cæ sar-worship. Revelation 13:11 f. The second beast is regarded as...
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive. mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: and that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or t...
THE POWER OF THE BEAST (Revelation 13:1-18) I saw a beast coming up from the sea. It had ten horns and seven heads; and it had ten royal crowns on its horns; and on its heads I saw blasphemous names....
MIGHT. should be able to. BUY OR SELL. The great boycott of the future. SAVE. except. Greek. _ei_ (App-118) _me_ (App-105). HAD. hath. OR. Omit....
The Number of the Name of the Beast, Revelation 13:17-18 17. _and that_ "And" should not improbably be omitted, the construction then, being, he causeth all … that they give them a mark, … that no ma...
_THE MARK OF THE BEAST REVELATION 13:15-18:_ The mark of the beast takes us back to look at the problem of economic discrimination. The Devil desired to control the ability of man to make a living and...
ΔΎΝΗΤΑΙ _praes. conj. pass. (dep.) от_ ΔΎΝΑΜΑΙ (G1410) быть способным, с _inf. Conj._ с ΊΝ (G2443) является _прид._ цели или _прид._ дополнением гл. ΆΓΟΡΆΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΆΓΟΡΆΖΩ (G59) покупать...
I BEHELD ANOTHER BEAST, &C.— From the description of the _ten horned beast,_ or Roman state in general, the prophet passes to that of the _two horned beast,_ or Roman church in particular. _The beast...
_TOMLINSON'S COMMENTS_ CHAPTER XIII THE VISION OF THE TWO BEASTS _Text (Revelation 13:1-18)_ INTRODUCTION 1 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 39 Text Revelation 13:11-18 11 And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. 12 And he exerciseth all...
And that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the nu...
__ Temple Section-The Wild Beast 1 The _ dragon_, not John, was stationed so as to bring up the wild beast. 1 The beast from the sea (which is the equivalent of the abyss) has hitherto enacted the r...
THE TWO BEASTS Personification of the two powers inspired by the devil to persecute the Church. 1-10. The dragon stands by the sea (i.e. the Ægean Sea), from which there rises to meet him a 'beast,'...
FROM NOW TO THE END OF TIME REVELATION _IAN MACKERVOY_ CHAPTER 13 THE *BEAST FROM THE SEA - REVELATION 13:1-10 V1 I saw a *beast. It came up from the sea. It had 10 *horns and 7 heads. There was...
AND HE CAUSETH... — Better, _And he [i.e.,_ probably, the second wild beast, and not the image, as in the latter clause of the last verse] _makes all men, the small and the great, and the rich and the...
CHAPTER X. THE SECOND AND THIRD GREAT ENEMIES Of THE CHURCH. Revelation 13:1 WE have seen that the main purpose of chap. 12 was to introduce to our notice the dragon, or Satan, the first great enemy...
Detection was inevitable, for the very coins were stamped (Matthew 22:19) with the head of the Cæsar, the gods, or Rome itself, and the prophet apparently expected that genuine Christians would refuse...
Revelation 13:11-18 : the Imperial _alter ego_ or the second beast, a monster from the land (identified afterwards with the traditional “false prophet,” Revelation 16:13; Revelation 19:20;...
THE BEAST AND HIS WORSHIPERS Revelation 13:1 The horns symbolize power; the heads, intelligence; and the beast, an earthly kingdom. The dragon must stand for Satan, who has wrought his greatest achie...
Still reviewing the process, a beast is seen as the agent of Satan. It is the Antichrist, who is counterfeit of Christ. He appears with the signs and symbols of kingship. He is characterized by attrac...
The mark symbolizes allegiance designating what Lord they followed. (Revelation 7:1-8) Christians, who would refuse such a mark, would find themselves excluded from society and be boycotted economical...
And that no man might (25) buy or sell, save he that had the (26) mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. (25) That is, have any trade or dealings with men, but only those who have...
(11) And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. (12) And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth...
We begin now what may be called the second volume of the Revelation. The prophetic part of the book divides into two portions at this point. This is another land-mark that cannot be despised, if we wo...
The Beastly Trinity I. INTRODUCTION A.Last week we studied the war that will take place in Heaven as Michael the Archangel heads up an angelic army against "the prince of the power of the air" (Ephe...
In Chapter 13 we have the clear and full development of Satan's instruments of evil. They are two the ten-horned and the two-horned beasts. To the first the dragon, who swept with his tail a third par...
AND THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL,.... Either in an ecclesiastical sense, as to, be in any church office, or perform any such service, to say Mass, hear confession, give absolution, sell pardons and i...
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Ver. 17. _Might buy or sell_] As at Rome, oaths, laws, vows, are soluble, and all th...
_And he doeth great wonders_ We have seen the greatness of the power and authority of the beast, and we shall now see what course he pursues to establish it. He pretends, like other false prophets, to...
THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL; literally fulfilled in the history of the papal power, whose policy has been to place those who would not bow to it under an interdict, deprive them of the means of livi...
The mark of the second beast:...
AND THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL SAVE HE THAT HAD THE MARK OR THE NAME OF THE BEAST OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME....
A BEAST COMING OUT OF THE SEA In contrast to seeing a great sign in heaven in Revelation 12:1, John now stands on the shore and sees a Beast rise out of the _sea_ (out of the Gentile or Western nation...
_ 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name._ A. This second beast represents false religious leaders, in whom also rests the...
11-18 Those who understand the first beast to denote a worldly power, take the second to be also a persecuting and assumed power, which acts under the disguise of religion, and of charity to the soul...
OLBGrk; AND THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL: this the popish church effects by its excommunications; it was begun in the council of Lateran, anathematizing all who entertained any of the Waldenses, or t...
Revelation 13:17 and G2532 no G3363 one G5100 may G1410 (G5741) buy G59 (G5658) or G2228 sell...
‘Or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. He who has understanding let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of man (or ‘of a man') and his number is six hundred and sixty six...
‘And he causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, the free and the bond, that there be given them a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and that no man should be able to b...
Revelation 13:17. The meaning of this verse can only be that the second beast aimed at denying a part in the intercourse of life, or the rights of citizenship, to every one who refused to acknowledge...
The passage upon which we now enter describes the third great enemy of God's people, and closes with the mysterious indication of the number of the beast....
THAT NO MAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO BUY OR TO SELL (ινα μη τις δυνητα αγορασα η πωλησα). Final clause with ινα and present middle subjunctive of δυναμα with aorist active infinitives. This is a regular b...
CONTENTS: The beast out of the sea and the beast out of the earth. CHARACTERS: God, Christ, John, false prophet, anti-christ, Satan. CONCLUSION: In the midst of the Tribulation period there shall ris...
The conscious mind, enquiring after the truth and certainty of revelation, is worthy of all the aid that science can afford. In Daniel, as stated above, on chap. Revelation 10:5, we have before us thr...
NO ONE COULD BUY OR SELL. See note on Revelation 2:20. Anti-christian powers discriminate against the believer who remains true to his Lord....
_A beast rise up out of the sea._ THE DOMAIN OF ANTICHRIST I. It has a manifold development. In the commerce of the world, in the government of the world, in the campaigns of the world, in the liter...
_Deceiveth … by the means of those miracles._ MIRACLES: A COUNTERFEIT SUPERNATURALISM Miracles have ever been the chief evidence of the presence of what is worshipful and Divine. It is by these espec...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 13:11 A second beast rises out of the earth to recruit worshipers for the first beast. He gathers people using lying words and miracles. In John’s day, the imperial cult...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 13:16 MARKED ON THE RIGHT HAND OR THE FOREHEAD. The Israelites wore God’s law on their hands and foreheads. They did this to show God’s authority over their thoughts and...
And he put a mark in the hand or foreheads of men so that no man could buy or sell unless he had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. This was to boycott or ostracize the Chr...
THE FIRST BEAST _CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES_ IN this and the preceding chapter the three chief adversaries of the real kingdom of God in the world are described. The first is the dragon, or Satan....
EXPOSITION REVELATION 13:1 AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA. The Revised Version, agreeing with א, A, C, Vulgate, Syriac, AEthiopic, Armenian, Victorinus, reads ἐστάθη, "he stood." The Authori...
_17 AND THAT NO MAN MIGHT BUY OR SELL, SAVE HE THAT HAD THE MARK, OR THE NAME OF THE BEAST, OR THE NUMBER OF HIS NAME._ No one will be able to buy or sell anything unless they have taken the mark, th...
John said, I stood upon the sand of the sea (Revelation 13:1), Probably the Mediterranean Sea. and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads, ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns...
Revelation 14:11; Revelation 17:5; Revelation 22:4; Revelation 3:12;...
The number. The method of mystic numbering obtained alike among pagan Greeks, Gnostics, Christian Fathers, and Jewish Cabbalists. Jupiter was invoked under the number 717 contained in the letters H AP...
THE WAR IN HEAVEN Revelation 12:1 _and Revelation 13:1_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS It almost seems folly to try to speak on two Chapter s in Revelation, at one time. We realize we cannot do either one justi...