NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers
Revelation 13:18
Dubious Hippolytus Fragments
And his seal upon the forehead and upon the right hand is the number, "Six hundred threescore and six."[83]
Dubious Hippolytus Fragments
And his seal upon the forehead and upon the right hand is the number, "Six hundred threescore and six."[83]
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Verse Revelation 13:18. _HERE IS WISDOM. LET HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING COUNT_ _THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST; FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN; AND HIS_ _NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE_ AND _SIX__._] In t...
HERE IS WISDOM - That is, in what is stated respecting the name and the number of the name of the beast. The idea is, either that there would be need of special sagacity in determining what the “numbe...
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...
Lateinos. And what is this name? The number of. man; the Greek method of spelling the name of Latinus, the reputed founder of the Latin race. But what more is it? Rome is the ancient capital of the La...
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....
HERE, &C. See Revelation 17:9. WISDOM. Compare App-132. LET HIM THAT. He that. UNDERSTANDING. Greek. _nous._ See 1 Corinthians 14:14. COUNT. calculate. See Luke
_Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding_&c. "The terms of the challenge serve at once to shew that the feat proposed is possible, and that it is difficult." (Alford.) _the number of a man_ C...
17, 18. THE NUMBER OF THE NAME OF THE BEAST...
ΧΞΣ ́. C 5 11 and Tyc[462] still preserve the reading older than St Irenæus ἑξακόσιαι δέκα ἕξ. [462] Tyconius. 18. ἘΣΤΆΘΗΝ. If correct, it would mark the beginning of a new vision, just as Daniel 8:2...
_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...
ΈΧΩΝ _praes. act. part. от_ ΈΧ (G2192) иметь, ΝΟΎΣ (G3563) ум; здесь: понимание, восприятие, ΨΗΦΙΣΆΤΩ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΨΗΦΊΖΩ (G5585) подсчитывать, считать; букв., считать на счетах, подводить...
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...
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...
_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...
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six. WISDOM. Spiritual wisdom is needed t...
__ Temple Section-The 144,000 18 All will be obliged to have one of three marks to indicate their worship of the wild beast: either its symbol, its name, or its number. The number, we are told, is t...
HERE IS WISDOM] i.e. wisdom is needed to interpret that which follows: cp. Revelation 17:9....
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...
HERE IS WISDOM... — Translate, _Hither is wisdom._ This most difficult verse is introduced by this word of preface. Wisdom — indeed, the highest wisdom — is needed for those who would understand it. T...
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...
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;...
“Now for wisdom” skill to penetrate the secret of the cryptogram which would reveal the features of the dread opponent. This cryptic method was a favourite apocalyptic device, due partly to prudential...
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 numbers seven stood for something perfect or complete. Summers suggests six represented evil and three sixes together would stand for evil raised to the ultimate. Some would make much of the fact...
(27) Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the (28) number of a man; and his number [is] Six hundred threescore [and] six. (27) That is, in this numb...
_ Six hundred sixty-six. The numeral letters of his name shall make up this number. (Challoner)_...
REFLECTIONS IN reading this Chapter, well may the child of God, cry out with the Apostle, how doth the mystery of iniquity already work! What an awful account is here, of him whose coming is after th...
(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...
666 I. INTRODUCTION A. Last week in our study of the book of Revelation, we took a look at "the beastly trinity" of the "dragon (which is satan Revelation 12:9, the beast, and the false prophet! 1....
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...
HERE IS WISDOM,.... Not only in the above description of the two beasts, but in what follows as to the number of the beast, these two now coalescing in one, and have one and the same number; and to wr...
Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number _is_ Six hundred threescore _and_ six. Ver. 18. _Here is wisdom_] That is,...
_Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast_ In saying, _Here is wisdom_, the apostle shows that it is not a vain and ridiculous attempt to search into this mystery,...
HERE IS WISDOM; wisdom is required, in order to determine to whom the above representations apply, and who is meant by them. LET HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING; of this matter. COUNT THE NUMBER; of the...
HERE IS WISDOM. LET HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING COUNT THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST; FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN; AND HIS NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX. There is a remarkable show of authority...
The mark of the second beast:...
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...
_ 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number Isaiah 666._ A. The number is important, not the name. See the introduc...
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...
HERE IS WISDOM; that is, Herein is the wisdom, the unsearchable wisdom, of God seen in the trial of his church; or, (which is more probably the sense), this is a point will exercise the wisdom of men....
Revelation 13:18 Here G5602 is G2076 (G5748) wisdom G4678 has G2192 (G5723) understanding G3563 calculate G5585
‘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...
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....
Revelation 13:18. At this point the Seer pauses, and we meet those words which have been so great a puzzle to the Church of Christ in all ages of her history. HERE IS WISDOM. The test of wisdom is the...
HERE IS WISDOM (ωδε η σοφια). The puzzle that follows as in Revelation 17:9. See Ephesians 1:17 for "a spirit of wisdom and of understanding."HE THAT UNDERSTANDS (ο εχων νουν). "The one having int...
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...
ITS NUMBER IS 666. Not having our system of numbers, the ancients wrote numbers using letters of their alphabet. But almost any name can be added up to "666," if the letters are juggled enough. It may...
_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...
_Six hundred three score and six._ SIXES AND SEVENS I. The beast whose number is 666. The beast is not one, but three. It is evident the last verse sums up the two Chapter s, and gives its total num...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 13:18 The NUMBER OF THE BEAST is 666. This NUMBER OF A MAN may contrast with divine completeness (symbolized by seven)....
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...
"Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast; for it is the number of a man (or a man's number); and his number is six hundred three score and six," This number 666 i...
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...
_18 HERE IS WISDOM. LET HIM THAT HATH UNDERSTANDING COUNT THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST: FOR IT IS THE NUMBER OF A MAN; AND HIS NUMBER IS SIX HUNDRED THREESCORE AND SIX._ The number of the Beast will be 6...
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 12:10; Deuteronomy 3:11; Hosea 14:9; Mark 13:14; Psalms 107:43
Here is wisdom. Directing attention to the challenge which follows. Count [ψ η φ ι σ α τ ω]. See on Luke 14:28. The number of a man. It is counted as men usually count. Compare ch. 21 17, and a man's...
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...