A leopard [π α ρ δ α λ ε ι]. The ancients do not seem to have distinguished between the leopard, the panther, and the ounce. The word stands for either. Leopard is leo - pard, the lion - pard, which was supposed to be a mongrel between a panther and a lioness. Compare Daniel 7:6.
Bear. Compare Daniel 7:5.
Lion. Compare Daniel 7:4.
Verse Revelation 13:2. _AND THE BEAST WHICH I SAW WAS LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD_] This similitude of the beast to a leopard appears to be an allusion to the third beast of Daniel, which is well known to re...
AND THE BEAST WHICH I SAW WAS LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD - For a description of the leopard, see the notes on Daniel 7:6. It is distinguished for bloodthirstiness and cruelty, and thus becomes an emblem of a...
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...
In the thirteenth chapter, there again appears. monster with seven heads and ten horns, which it will now be our purpose to show to be. symbol of THE TEMPORAL POWER. The fourth beast of Daniel's visi...
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....
UNTO. to. LEOPARD. Greek. _pardalis._ Only here. In Septuagint it occurs Jeremiah 5:6; Jeremiah 13:23.Hosea 13:7; Habakkuk 1:8....
_like unto a leopard … bear … lion_ The fourth beast in Daniel 7 is not described as like any ordinary animal: here he is described as combining the likeness of the other three. We may draw the infere...
ἌΡΚΟΥ. Text. Rec[441] reads ἄρκτου, so do some cursives. [441] Rec. Textus Receptus as printed by Scrivener. ΛΈΟΝΤΟΣ. Tisch[442] reads λεόντων with א syr[443] and Victorin. [442] Tischendorf: eight...
Revelation 12:17 to Revelation 13:10. THE BEAST FROM THE SEA...
_THE BEAST OUT OF THE SEA REVELATION 13:1-5:_ John pictures a beast coming up out of the sea._ _ "And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and t...
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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 the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority....
__ 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...
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...
AND THE BEAST... — The wild beast combined the features of three wild animals: the leopard, the bear, the lion. In Daniel’s vision (Daniel 7:4) the kingdoms were described: the first, like a lion; the...
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 empire gathered up all the obnoxious qualities of Israel's former oppressors: craft, lust of blood, and vicious energy. Hence the combination of traits from Daniel's four beasts: general appearanc...
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...
It may be this beast is a composite of the four beasts of Daniel 7:1-28. In which case, we could well say this beast is Daniel's terrible fourth beast and has parts of the other three because their do...
And the beast which I saw was like (6) unto a leopard, and his feet were as [the feet] of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: (7) and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great a...
M. Bossuet, bishop of Meaux, observes in the emperors Maximian Herculeus, Galerius Maximin, and Dioclesian, the distinguishing characters of these three animals. The leopard represents Maximian, a cha...
(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 THE BEAST WHICH I SAW WAS LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD,.... To which the Grecian kingdom is compared in Daniel 7:6; because of that rapidity and swiftness with which Alexander overran the world, and set up...
And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as _the feet_ of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority...
_And I stood upon the sand of the sea_, &c. Here _the beast_ is described at large, who was only mentioned before, Revelation 11:7; and a _beast_, in the prophetic style, is a tyrannical idolatrous em...
LEOPARD-BEAR-LION; symbolic of his savage and cruel character, which unites in itself the properties of the three first beasts of Daniel's vision. Daniel 7:4-6. THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER-SEAT-AUT...
THE SEVEN-HEADED BEAST OF BLASPHEMY AND THE TWO-HORNED BEAST OF DECEIT. The description of the first beast:...
AND THE BEAST WHICH I SAW WAS LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD, AND HIS FEET WERE AS THE FEET OF A BEAR, AND HIS MOUTH AS THE MOUTH OF A LION; AND THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER AND HIS SEAT AND GREAT AUTHORITY....
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...
_ 2 Now the beast which I saw was like a leopard, his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth like the mouth of a lion. The dragon gave him his power, his throne, and great authority._ A. Th...
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...
Daniel, in his vision of the Chaldaic, Persian, Grecian, and Roman monarchies, by which the world was successively ruled from his time to St. John s, and many years after, had the first represented to...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V If any shall slay with the sword, he must be slain with the sword. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints."[244]...
Revelation 13:2 Now G2532 beast G2342 which G3739 saw G1492 (G5627) was G2258 (G5713) like G3664 leopard...
‘And the wild beast which I saw was like a leopard, and his feet were like the feet of a bear, and his mouth was as the mouth of a lion, and the monster gave him his power, and his throne and great au...
The third Woe, or the seventh Trumpet, came to an end with chap. 11; and, as the seven Trumpets followed immediately after the seven Seals, we might now have expected that these, in their turn, would...
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...
Revelation 13:2. The description of the ‘beast' is continued. The three animals, the leopard, the bear, and the lion, some of whose parts it possessed, are the first three ‘great beasts' of Daniel 7:4...
LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD (ομοιον παρδαλε). Associative-instrumental case of παρδαλις, old word for panther, leopard, here only in N.T. The leopard (λεο, παρδ) was considered a cross between a panther an...
LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD The three animals, leopard, bear, and lion, are found in (Daniel 7:4) as symbols of the empires which preceded Rome, and whose characteristics all entered into the qualities of th...
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...
THE BEAST I SAW. Three well known animals are mentioned here: each symbolic of swiftness, crushing power, eagerness to destroy. THE DRAGON GAVE THE BEAST HIS OWN POWER. Those in nations and government...
_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...
John stood on the sand of the sea and saw a wild beast rise up out of the sea; but though it rose out of the sea its description shows it to be a land beast, and not a sea monster; for it was like a l...
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...
_2 AND THE BEAST WHICH I SAW WAS LIKE UNTO A LEOPARD, AND HIS FEET WERE AS THE FEET OF A BEAR, AND HIS MOUTH AS THE MOUTH OF A LION: AND THE DRAGON GAVE HIM HIS POWER, AND HIS SEAT, AND GREAT AUTHORI...
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...
1 Peter 5:8; 1 Samuel 17:34; 2 Kings 2:24; 2 Timothy 4:17; Amos 3:12;
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 here proceeds in giving. farther description of this monstrous beast; it was in appearance like. LEOPARD, spotted with divers kinds of idolatry, with variety of idol gods; with FEET like. BEA...