Speaking great things and blasphemies; usurping the prerogatives of God, and subjecting men's consciences to his control. This beast exerts his power in connection with the second beast, verses Revelation 13:12-15, and the two together usurp God's place, and require men to pay to them divine honors. Compare 2 Thessalonians 2:4.

Forty and two months; the same as twelve hundred and sixty days, chap Revelation 11:3, and "a time, and times, and the dividing of time." Chap Revelation 12:14; Daniel 7:25. These days are commonly understood as symbolical of so many years.

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