it never adds, from the foundation of the world; nor indeed was He slain from the foundation of the world : Heb. ix. 26. They who allege that He was thus slain in the Divine decree, in a like sense will say that He was born, raised from the dead, and ascended into heaven, from the foundation of the world.
10. A/y/xaXuff/av evvdysi) The LXX. have (fuyxXfieiv a/yjuctXuofuvy
s/ffdysiv a/yjxaXuff/av, ayeiv aiy/j^ccXufflccv, respecting the vanquished who are led away into captivity : but in 1 Maccab. xiv. 7, it is said, (tvvrr yay&v a/y/iuXug/av that is, Simon freed and brought together
many , ivho had been captives. Also 1 Maccab. iii. 9, 13, Gwijyaysv dnoWu/Aevovg, tfOpoicsv udpoieficc. And this notion agrees with this pas- sage, in this sense : if any one supplies and equips captives , he will be taken captive. — un dye/, goes away ) being easily led away. — drro- xrsvsi) The present, as <rwdysi. Ktsvu^ xt&ww, and %re /Vw, are the same.
11. K «/, and) The description of the two beasts most strictly co- heres, as does the description of more joyful circumstances in the following chapter. — dXKo Oriplov, another beast) This is afterwards more frequently called the false prophet: and here his very action is described, as that of the false prophet. That bewitched power and wisdom , which independent of the Word of God, without a Redeemer and a Comforter , is reverenced by many individually and collectively , having no dread of Deism , Socinianism , and Pelagianism , abusing the dogma respecting the internal Word , ivhicli would without scruple re- concile Christianity with Mahometanism itself and moreover the per- verse interpretation of the Apocalypse itself and of the ichole of the Sacred Scripture , will be favourable to the beast. D. Lange, in Epicr. p. 391, etc., entertains a different opinion from me respecting this beast also. I will here also notice some points cursorily. Now I nowhere say, that from the times of Hildebrand the second beast was subservient to the former one (on account of the common ad- vantage of both, but rather on account of his own, as is the practice of the wicked). Nor do I say, that the 42 months of the former beast are common to the two; but I imitate the expression of the text, which is explained in its proper place. The former beast has an origin much more ancient than the other ; but when this also has arisen, it exists together with the former one. Gregory VII. has long ceased to live ; but that his cause has not yet expired, his Legenda testify. I never thought, that his image flourished at the same time with the former beast. I had treated incidentally of the destruction of the beast and the false prophet at p. 733, but more plainly, in its place, p. 935. If the venerable man had perceived