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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 13:1-4

Revelation 13:1-4. 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 empire. The kingdom of God and of Christ is never represented under the image of a beast. As Daniel ( Dan 7:2-3 ) beheld four great beasts, representing the four great empires, come up from a stormy sea, that is, from the commotions of the world; so St. John ( Rev... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 13:1-10

Beast from the sea (13:1-10)Like the dragon of Chapter 12, the beast that arises out of the sea has seven heads and ten horns. If the dragon symbolizes Satan, the opponent of God in the spirit world, the beast out of the sea probably symbolizes the opponent of God in the world of humankind. As God took human form in Jesus Christ, so Satan takes human form in one called the antichrist (GNB: enemy of Christ), or man of lawlessness (GNB: wicked one). He combines cunning, strength, cruelty and... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 13:3

I saw. Texts omit. one of = one wounded = slain. Same word in Revelation 6:6 . deadly wound = death-stroke. wound. Greek. plege. See Revelation 9:20 . healed. Greek. therapeuo. Only here, and Revelation 13:12 , in Rev. world. App-129 . after. Read, "(and followed) after". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 13:3

And I saw one of his heads as though it had been smitten unto death; and his death-stroke was healed: and the whole earth wondered after the beast;Smitten unto death, and his death-stroke was healed ... See in the chapter introduction under "The Fatal Wound that Did Not Kill," for a complete discussion of this. As Lenski said:The fact that only one of the heads suffered the death-stroke must not mislead us. Thereby the beast itself was slain.[43]These seven heads were seven successive world... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 13:1-8

Revelation 13:1-8. 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 empire. The kingdom of Christ is never represented under the image of a beast. As the prophet, Dan 7:2-3 beheld four great beasts, representing the four great empires, come up from a stormy sea (that is, from the commotions of the world); so St. John, Rev 13:1 saw this beast, in... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 13:3

3. One of—literally, "from among." wounded . . . healed—twice again repeated emphatically (Revelation 13:12; Revelation 13:14); compare Revelation 17:8; Revelation 17:11, "the beast that was, and is not, and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit" (compare Revelation 13:11); the Germanic empire, the seventh head (revived in the eighth), as yet future in John's time (Revelation 13:11- :). Contrast the change whereby Nebuchadnezzar, being humbled from his self-deifying pride, was converted from... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 13:1-4

Characteristics of the beast 13:1-4 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 13:1-10

The beast out of the sea 13:1-10John stressed three things about this beast: his conspiracy with the dragon (Revelation 13:3-4), his success in deceiving the whole world (Revelation 13:3-4; Revelation 13:8), and his success in temporarily defeating God’s saints (Revelation 13:6-7 a). [Note: Paul S. Minear, I Saw a New Earth: An Introduction to the Visions of the Apocalypse, p. 118.] "The initial description of this creature identifies it as the culminating empire of Daniel’s vision of the end... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 13:3

Since the beast’s heads represent nations (Revelation 13:1), Revelation 13:3 seems to be saying that one of the nations under Satan’s authority perished, but then it revived. Another possibility is that the beast himself died and then experienced resurrection. [Note: Gregory H. Harris, "The Wound of the Beast in the Tribulation," Bibliotheca Sacra 156:624 (October-December 1999):459-68; et al.] read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 13:1-18

The Two BeastsPersonification 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,’ i.e. something inhuman: signifying the Roman empire, which came to the Province of Asia, in which were the Churches addressed in Rev., from the sea. The beast has ten horns and seven heads: cp. Daniel 7. On the horns are diadems and on the heads ’names of blasphemy,’ i.e. blasphemous titles: cp.... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Revelation 13:1-4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Revelation 13:1-10

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Revelation 13:3

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Revelation 13:3

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Revelation 13:1-8

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Revelation 13:3

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 13:1-4

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 13:1-10

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Revelation 13:3

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Revelation 13:1-18

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