Revelation 13:11

The Beast from the Land, Revelation 13:11-16

11. another beast Afterwards called the False Prophet, Revelation 16:13; Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:10. Some think that it is he, rather than the first Beast, who is to be identified with St Paul's "Man of Sin," the personal Antichrist the first Beast being the antichristian Empire. But in Revelation 17:11 sqq. it seems plain that the seven-headed Beast, who is primarily a polity, at length becomes embodied in a person.

two horns Perhaps two, only because that is the natural number for a lamb the only significance of the number being, that they are notseven or ten.

like a lamb … as a dragon No doubt the obvious view is right, that he lookslike Christ and islike Satan. Alford well compares St Matthew 7:15 though the resemblance is in the sense, not the language or even the image, so that perhaps there is no conscious reference.