_A BEAST RISETH OUT OF THE SEA WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN HORNS, TO WHOM THE DRAGON GIVETH HIS POWER. ANOTHER BEAST COMETH UP OUT OF THE EARTH; CAUSETH AN IMAGE TO BE MADE OF THE FORMER BEAST, AND THAT MEN SHOULD WORSHIP IT, AND RECEIVE HIS MARK._ _Anno Domini 96._... [ Continue Reading ]
_REVELATION 13:1_.— In this chapter we have a further account of the state of the church and world, in _the third period._ The representation of the _wild beasts,_ in this vision, refers to the same times with the two former visions, of the _witnesses_ prophesying in sackcloth, and the _woman_ flyin... [ Continue Reading ]
AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND, &C.— Here the beast is described at large, who was only mentioned before, ch. Revelation 11:7. And a _beast_ in the prophetic style, is a tyrannical, idolatrous person or empire. The kingdom of Christ is never represented under the image of a _beast._ As the prophet, Danie... [ Continue Reading ]
IF ANY MAN HAVE AN EAR, &C.— It was customary with our Saviour, when he would have his auditors pay a particular attention to what he had been saying, to add, _He who hath ears to hear,_ &c. St. John, as our Lord's amanuensis, repeats the same admonition at the end of each of his seven epistles to t... [ Continue Reading ]
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 with ten crowned horns,_ is the Roman empire, as divided into ten kingdoms; _the beast with two horn... [ Continue Reading ]