Revelation 13:1

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. I STOOD. So B, Coptic; but 'Aleph (') A C, Vulgate, Syriac, 'He stood.' Standing on the sand of the sea, Satan gave his power to the beast rising out of the sea. UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA - whence could be seen the four winds striving upon the great sea (). BEAST - `wild beast.' Man becomes "brutish" (), severed from God, the archetype, in whose image he was made, which ideal is realized by the man Christ Jesus. Hence, the world-powers seeking their own glory, not God's, are beasts; Nebuchadnezzar, when in self-deification he...

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 monster! It appears to mean that worldly, oppressing dominion, which for many ages, even from the times of the Babylonish captivity, had been hostile to the church. The first beast then began to oppress and persecute the righteous for righteousness' sake, but they suffered most under the fourth beast of Daniel, (the Roman empire,) which has afflicted the saints with many cruel persecutions. The source of its power was the dragon. It was set up by the devil, and supported by him. The wounding the head may be the abolishing pagan idolatry; and the healing of the wound, introducing popish idolatry, the same in substance, only in a new dress, but which as effectually answers the devil's design. The...

CHAPTER XIII. _The beast rising out of the sea with seven heads, ten horns,_ _and ten crowns_, 1. _His description, power, blasphemy, cruelty, c._, 2-10. _The beast coming out of the earth with two horns, deceiving the_ _world by is false miracles, and causing every one to receive_ _his mark in their right hand_, 11-17. _His number_, 666. 18. NOTES ON CHAP. XIII., BY J. E. C. Verse Revelation 13:1. _AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA, AND SAW A BEAST_ _RISE UP OUT OF THE SEA_] Before we can pro

AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA - The sand upon the shore of the sea. That is, he seemed to stand there, and then had a vision of a beast rising out of the waters. The reason of this representation may, perhaps, have been that among the ancients the sea was regarded as the appropriate place for the origin of huge and terrible monsters (Prof. Stuart, in loco). This vision strongly resembles that in Daniel 7:2 ff, where the prophet saw four beasts coming up in succession from the sea. See the notes on that place. In Daniel, the four winds of heaven are described as striving upon the great sea Dan 13:2, and the agitated ocean represents the nations in commotion, or in a state of disorder and anarchy, and the four beasts represent four successive kingdoms that would spring up. See the notes on...

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 Authorized Version follows the reading ἐστάθην_, _"I stood," which is found in B, P, Coptic, Andreas, Arethas. Fortunately, the point is not important. Whether St. John or the dragon stood on the edge of the sea is not material, since we are distinctly told that the ten-horned beast rose from the sea. Wordsworth aptly contrasts this station on the unstable sand in proximity to the sea, the clement of commotion, with the vision of the Lamb on Mount Zion (Revelation 14:1). The imagery which follows is founded upon the vision of

AND I STOOD UPON THE SAND OF THE SEA,.... The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions read, "and he stood", c. and so the Alexandrian copy meaning the dragon, said to be wroth with the woman, and to go forth to make war with her seed, in the latter part of the preceding chapter, where some versions place this clause; and the Arabic version reads expressly, "and the serpent stood", c. And this is thought by some to be the better reading, because of the connection with what goes before, and because there is no mention of the name of John, nor of his being called or removed from heaven, where he was beholding sights, and continuing the account of them, Revelation 4:1, as there is when he is shown sights elsewhere see Revelation 17:3. And besides, as the dragon was contriving a new way of persecutin

RISE UP Daniel's fourth beast. (_ See Scofield) - (Daniel 7:26). _ The "ten horns" are explained in (Daniel 7:24); (Revelation 17:12) to be ten kings, and the whole vision is of the last form of Gentile world-power, a confederated ten-kingdom empire covering the sphere of authority of ancient Rome (Revelation 13:1) refers to the ten-kingdom empire; versus (Revelation 13:4) to the emperor, who is emphatically "the Beast." ( See Scofield) - ...

REVELATION 13:1 ovno,ma@ta# {C} On the one hand, the reading o;noma may have arisen from ovno,mata through the accidental omission of ta after ma; on the other hand, however, after the plural kefala,j copyists may have tended to alter o;noma to ovno,mata. On the strength of the two most important witnesses (A 2053) a majority of the Committee preferred to print ovno,mata in the text, but to enclose the last two letters within square brackets in order to represent the opposing evidence....

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 this beast also stands for an empire. TEN HORNS: the horns represent emperors, either beginning with Julius Cæ sar and ending with Titus or beginning with Augustus and ending with Vespasian, or if we omit some or all of the three usurpers (Galba, Otho, Vitellius) we may end with Domitian, Nerva, or even Trajan. [Perhaps the seven heads are emperors (Augustus to Titus), and the ten horns provincial governors or dependent kings, _cf. Revelation 17:12_ *, p. 939. A. J. G.] NAMES OF BLASPHEMY: possibl

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 vision (Dan. 7) is. ten-horned monster. The dragon who assails the woman in Rev. 12, has seven heads and ten horns. Here again, in chapter XIII. appears. beast with the same characteristics. In Rev. 17, there is recorded. vision of. harlot who sat upon. scarlet beast of seven heads and ten horns.. believe that all the best commentators, Catholic as well as Protestant, are agreed in the opinion that these various monsters are all symbols of the same mighty power, and all, with one consent, admit that power to be ROME. Here, however, there is. divergence. Romanists contend that the reference is to Pagan Rome alone, and that Papal Rome is not signified. This involves them in. labyrinth of difficult...