1. Beast (Inpéov). Properly rendered. See remarks on f@a living creatures, ch. iv. 6.
Rise up (avaBaivov). Rev., better, coming up, thus giving the force of the participle.
Ten horns. Compare Dan. vii. 7. Crowns (d:adypaTa). Compare ch. xii. 8. See on ch. ii. 10.
The name (évoza). Read dvowata names. On each head a name.
2. A leopard (aapéddde). 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 Dan. vii. 6.
Bear. Compare Dan. vii. 5. Lion. Compare Dan. vii. 4. 3. | saw (eldov). Omitted in the best texts.
Wounded (eopaypévnv). Lit., slain. See on ch. v. 6. The Rev. smitten is questionable. The word occurs eight times in
the Apocalypse, and in seven of these it must be rendered slain or slaughtered. Professor Milligan rightly observes that the statement is the counterpart of that in ver. 6, where we read of the Lamb as though it had been slaughtered. In both cases there had been actual death, and in both revival. The one isa mocking counterpart of the other.
Deadly wound (7Anyi) 70d Javdrov). Lit., stroke of death. Rev., death-stroke.
After the beast (o7/cw tod Inpiov). A pregnant construct- éon for wondered at and followed after.
4. Which gave (ds édwxev). The correct reading is drs “ bde- cause he gave.”
Who is like unto the beast? <A parody on a similar ascription to God. See Isa. xl. 18, 25; xlvi. 5; Ps. exiii. 5; Micah vii. 18; Jer. xlix.19. Compare ch. xviii. 18.
5. To continue forty and two months (roujoa: phvas TeccepdKovta ovo). Lit., to make forty and two months. Sim- ilarly, Acts xv. 33, qroujoavtes ypovov having tarried a space ; lit., having made atime. See on continue there a year, Jas. iv.13. The best expositors, however, render vrovjcas absolutely, to work, and the following accusative as the accusative of dura- tion, ‘during forty and two months.” Rev., margin, to do his works during, ete. See Dan. xi. 28.
6. In blasphemy (eis Pracdnulav), Read Pracdnuias blasphemies. Rev., giving the force of eis more correctly, “for blasphemies.”
And them that dwell in heaven (cal rods év tT ovpavd oxnvovvtas). The best texts omit cal and, making the following words in apposition with dvoua and oxnvyv name and taber- nacle. Thus the literal sense would be to blaspheme the name and tabernacle which dwell in heaven. ‘The meaning is to en- hance the enormity of the blasphemy by bringing out the lofty