even he is the eighth Perhaps rather, both is himself the eighth, and is of the seven.

of the seven is most easily understood "is one of the seven" i.e. the eighth emperor of Rome, in whom the antichristian spirit of the empire finds its personal embodiment, will be a revival of one of his seven predecessors viz. Nero, the fifth of them. The words can however be taken to mean "the successor and result of the seven, following and springing out of them;" if a scheme of interpretation be preferred with which this meaning harmonises better.

goeth into perdition Implies something more than the "fall" of the other kings.

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