Vincent's Word Studies in the NT
Revelation 13:15
Speak. This is supposed by some to refer to the tricks of pagan priests in making pictures and statues appear to speak
Speak. This is supposed by some to refer to the tricks of pagan priests in making pictures and statues appear to speak
REVELATION 13:15 poih,sh| @i[na# o[soi {C} The word i[na, which seems to be indispensable with avpoktanqw/sin, stands after poih,sh| in A P 1006 2065 _al,_ and before avpoktanqw/sin in 051 1 1854 207...
Verse Revelation 13:15. _AND HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE_ _BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK, AND CAUSE_ _THAT AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEA...
AND HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST - That is, that image of the beast would be naturally powerless, or would have no life in itself. The second beast, however, had power to impa...
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...
"And be had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed."--13:15....
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....
HE HAD POWER. it was given him. LIFE. Greek. _pneuma_. App-101. THAT. in order that. Greek. _hina_. SPEAK. App-121....
_he had power_ Lit. IT WAS GIVEN TO HIM. _life_ Lit. BREATH or SPIRIT....
ΑΥ̓ΤΩ͂Ι ΔΟΥ͂ΝΑΙ. ACP* read αὐτῇ for αὐτῷ. C omits δοῦναι as if τῇ εἰκόνι τοῦ θηρίου were a gloss on αὐτῇ. ὍΣΟΙ. AP read ἵνα ὅσοι. Text. Rec[455] with 1 Areth[456] inserts ἵνα before ἀποκτανθῶσιν. [4...
THE BEAST FROM THE LAND...
_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...
ΈΔΌΘΗ _aor. ind. pass. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ (G1325) давать, ΔΟΎΝΑΙ _aor. act. inf. от_ ΔΊΔΩΜΙ. Эпэкз. _inf._ объясняет, что было дано, или используется как субъект гл. ΛΑΛΉΣΗ _aor. conj. act. от_ ΛΑΛΈΩ (G2980)...
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...
_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...
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...
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. HE HA...
__ 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...
13:15 homage (c-35) See Note h, ch. 3.9....
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,'...
LIFE] RV 'breath,' i.e. apparently; perhaps by ventriloquism....
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 HE HAD POWER... — Better, _And it was given to him to give breath to the image of the wild beast, that the image of the wild beast should both speak, and cause that as many as do not worship the i...
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...
The statue is made to speak, in order to work on the credulity and awe of the worshippers. The trick was well within the reach of contemporary magic (_cf._ Valer. Maxim, i. 8. 3 5), and later traditio...
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;...
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...
Without the priests, there would have been no life in Emperor worship. They caused it to be carried out the world over and put to death those who refused to comply....
(22) And he had power to give (a) life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed....
(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...
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 HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST,.... Or "breath"; he breathed into it, and animated it; he gave this new religion a sanction, he confirmed and established it, and obliged all...
And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed. Ver. 15....
_And he doeth great wonders_ We have seen the greatness of the power and authority of the beast, and we shall now see what course he pursues to establish it. He pretends, like other false prophets, to...
SPEAK; proclaim and send out his decrees, requiring all to bow to him; and if they will not, causing them to be put to death. Ecclesiastical and civil rulers have often been united in persecuting Chri...
AND HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK AND CAUSE THAT AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BE KILLED....
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...
_15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed._ A. He, in...
LIFE: _ Gr._ breath...
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...
The beast, mentioned REVELATION 13:11, HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE unto this new formed idolatry, conformable to that of the pagans, in which the old beast again lived: he gave life to it by his decrees an...
Revelation 13:15 G2532 He G846 granted G1325 (G5681) give G1325 (G5629) breath G4151 image G1504 beast...
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 13:15. In the words of this verse the second beast is still further characterized as giving breath TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK, AND CAUSE THAT A...
TO GIVE BREATH TO IT (δουνα πνευμα αυτη). This second beast, probably a system like the first (not a mere person), was endowed with the power to work magical tricks, as was true of Simon Magus and A...
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...
ALLOWED TO BREATH LIFE INTO THE IMAGE. We see the "unholy alliance" of anti-christian religion and anti-christian government working together to make slaves out of people. When people can be fooled in...
_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...
REVELATION—NOTE ON REVELATION 13:14 Idols “have mouths but cannot speak” (Psalms 115:5). Thus the impression that the first beast’s image has BREATH and...
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...
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...
_15 AND HE HAD POWER TO GIVE LIFE UNTO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH SPEAK, AND CAUSE THAT AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BE KILLED._ Thi...
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 7:20; Daniel 7:25; Genesis 2:7; Habakkuk 2:19; James 2:26;...
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...
St. John proceeds here to give. farther character and description of the beast, which he had begun to describe, Revelation 13:11. And, 1. His bloody cruelty is set forth, Revelation 13:15. HE CAUSETH...