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Revelation 13:7
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them; and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations.
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them; and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations.
REVELATION 13:7 kai. evdo,qh auvtw|/ poih/sai po,lemon meta. tw/n a`gi,wn kai. nikh/sai auvtou,j {A} The absence of the clause kai. evdo,qh … auvtou,j in a variety of witnesses (î47 A C P about 50 mi...
Verse Revelation 13:7. _AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS,_ _AND TO OVERCOME THEM_] "Who can make any computation," says Bishop Newton, "or even frame any conception, of the numbe...
AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM - By the same power that taught him to blaspheme God and his church. See the notes on Revelation 13:2, Revelation 13:5. TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS - See this fully illustrat...
REVELATION 13:1. A BEAST COMING UP OUT OF THE SEA: _cf._ the vision of the four great beasts that come up out of the sea in Daniel 7:3. As the beasts in Daniel represent empires, we may suppose that t...
"And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations."--13:7. Another fact in the history of the beast is g...
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....
MAKE WAR. Not the term in Revelation 13:4 (_polemeo_), but indicating. special attack upon "the saints". See Revelation 11:7; Daniel 7:21; Da
_And it was given unto him … to overcome them_ There is considerable authority for the omission of this clause: but the omission is no doubt merely accidental it was left out in one or more very early...
ΚΑῚ ἘΔΌΘΗ … ΑΥ̓ΤΟΎΣ. ACP 1* omit this clause. 7. ΚΑῚ ἘΔΌΘΗ … ΑΥ̓ΤΟΎΣ. There is considerable authority for the omission of this clause: but the omission is no doubt merely accidental—it was left out in...
Revelation 12:17 to Revelation 13:10. THE BEAST FROM THE SEA...
_THE POWER OF THE SEA BEAST REVELATION 13:6-10:_ The sea beast was so powerful that he had caused many to worship Rome._ _ However, the Christians would only worship the God of heaven._ _ The nation o...
ΈΔΌΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, ΠΟΙΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΠΟΙΈΩ (G4160) делать, ΠΌΛΕΜΟΣ (G4171) война, ΝΙΚΉΣΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΝΙΚΆΩ (G3528) побеждать, покорять, преодолеват...
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 em...
Strauss-' Comments SECTION 38 Text Revelation 13:1-10 1 and he stood upon the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads, and on his horns ten diade...
_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...
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. POWER - `authority.' ALL KINDREDS, AND TONGUES, AND...
__ 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...
13:7 make (b-8) overcome (b-15) Aorist. it is viewed as a finished act....
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,'...
ALL KINDREDS, etc.] The Roman empire was world-wide....
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 IT WAS GIVEN... — Better, _He makes war with the saints, and conquers them._ This, too, is said to be “given him.” The conquest is not a conquest of their fidelity; it is rather that the beast so...
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...
In Enoch xlvi. 7 the rulers and kings “make themselves masters of the stars of heaven [_i.e._, the righteous], and raise their hands against the Most High”. The beast's world-wide authority goes back...
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...
This power may have come from Satan, but only as God allowed. (Job 1:6-12; Job 2:1-6; Romans 13:1; John 19:10-11) Remembering the promises of earlier Chapter s
(1) And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. (2) And the...
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 IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS,.... The remnant of the woman's seed, Revelation 12:17, whom God has set apart for himself, Christ has cleansed from sin by his blood, and the Hol...
And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. Ver. 7. _To make war with the saints_] As he did with...
_And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things_ This expression seems to be taken from the description of the little horn in Daniel's vision, (Daniel 7:8,) and is explained, Revelation 13...
ALL KINDREDS-TONGUES, AND NATIONS; showing the extent of his influence, reaching over a great portion of the world....
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...
_ 7 It was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, tongue, and nation. 8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names...
1-10 The apostle, standing on the shore, saw a savage beast rise out of the sea; a tyrannical, idolatrous, persecuting power, springing up out of the troubles which took place. It was a frightful mon...
God showeth John, that after antichrist had gone on blaspheming the name, and tabernacle, and saints of God, some years, the devil should influence him also TO MAKE WAR against God's holy ones, and he...
Revelation 13:7 G2532 granted G1325 (G5681) him G846 make G4160 (G5658) war G4171 with G3326 saints...
‘And he opened his mouth for blasphemies against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, even those who tabernacle in Heaven (those who meet with Him there). And it was given to him to make wa...
Revelation 13:7. The third thing is ‘given;' and the AUTHORITY is universal, the whole world being marked out by the four departments into which it is divided....
The twelfth chapter has set before us the first great enemy of the Church. This chapter introduces us to other two by means of whom the devil or Satan carries on his warfare against the truth. The fir...
TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS AND TO OVERCOME THEM (ποιησα πολεμον μετα των αγιων κα νικησα αυτους). This clause with two epexegetical first aorist active infinitives (πολεμησα and νικησα) is omitted...
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...
_To make war with the saints._ WAR WITH THE SAINTS Observe-- 1. A war proclaimed; the beast makes war upon the saints, by bloodshed and persecution, and by the force of those weapons overcomes them...
_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...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 13:1 As the dragon stands on the seashore (Revelation 12:17), a beast emerges from the sea. This beast is sometimes identified with the Antichrist (see...
The beast made war with the saints to overcome them, and all shall worship him whose names are not written in the book of life. All the wiles of the Devil and the power of the persecutor will not caus...
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...
_7 AND IT WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM TO MAKE WAR WITH THE SAINTS, AND TO OVERCOME THEM: AND POWER WAS GIVEN HIM OVER ALL KINDREDS, AND TONGUES, AND NATIONS._ There should be little doubt about the power of...
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...
Daniel 11:36; Daniel 12:1; Daniel 5:18; Daniel 7:21; Daniel 7:25;...
The saints [τ ω ν α γ ι ω ν]. See on Acts 26:10. All kindreds [π α σ α ν φ υ λ η ν]. Rev., more literally and correctly, every tribe. See on ch. Revelation 1:7; v. 9. After tribe insert kai laon and...
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...
Observe here, 1. war proclaimed; the BEAST makes war upon the saints, by bloodshed and persecution, and by the force of those weapons overcomes them; that is, to outward appearance, and in the opinion...