1 And I saw a beast rise out of the sea, hauing seuen heads, and ten hornes, and vpon his hornes were ten crownes, and vpon his heads the name of blasphemie. 2 And the beast which I sawe, was like a Leopard, and his feete like a beares, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gaue him his power and his throne, and great authoritie. 3 And I sawe one of his heads as it were wounded to death, but his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondred and folowed the beast. 4 And they worshipped the dragon which gaue power vnto the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like vnto the beast! who is able to warre with him! 5 And there was giuen vnto him a mouth, that spake great things and blasphemies, and power was giuen vnto him, to doe two and fourtie moneths. 6 And he opened his mouth vnto blasphemie against God, to blaspheme his Name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heauen. 7 And it was giuen vnto him to make warre with the Saints, and to ouercome them, and power was giuen him ouer euery kinred, and tongue, and nation. 8 Therefore all that dwell vpon the earth, shall worship him, whose names are not written in the booke of life of that Lambe, which was slaine from the beginning of the world. 9 If any man haue an eare, let him heare. 10 If any leade into captiuitie, hee shall go into captiuitie: if any kill with a sword, he must be killed by a sword: here is the patience and the faith of the Saints. 11 And I beheld another beast comming vp out of the earth, which had two hornes like the Lambe, but he spake like the dragon. 12 And he did all that the first beast could doe before him, and he caused the earth, and them which dwell therein, to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. 13 And he did great wonders, so that hee made fire to come downe from heauen on the earth, in the sight of men, 14 And deceiued them that dwell on the earth by the signes, which were permitted to him to doe in the sight of the beast, saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make the image of the beast, which had the wound of a sword, and did liue. 15 And it was permitted to him to giue a spirit vnto the image of the beast, so that the image of the beast should speake, and should cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast, should be killed. 16 And he made all, both small and great, rich and poore, free and bond, to receiue a marke in their right hand or in their foreheads, 17 And that no man might buy or sell, saue hee that had the marke, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. 18 Here is wisdome. Let him that hath wit, count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man, and his number is sixe hundreth threescore and sixe.
Revelation · Geneva Bible (1599)
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Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Revelation 12:3; Revelation 17:3; Daniel 7:23–25; Revelation 11:7; Daniel 7:7–8
- 2 Daniel 7:4–7; 1 Peter 5:8; Revelation 17:12; Revelation 20:2; Revelation 12:9
- 3 Revelation 17:8; Revelation 13:14; Revelation 17:10; Revelation 17:17; Ezekiel 30:24
- 4 Revelation 13:2; Revelation 18:18; Revelation 13:12–13; Revelation 12:3; Revelation 13:15
- 5 Daniel 7:8; Daniel 7:25; Revelation 12:6; Daniel 11:36; Daniel 7:11
- 6 Revelation 12:12; Matthew 15:19; Hebrews 9:24; Matthew 12:34; Revelation 19:1–6
- 7 Daniel 7:21; Revelation 11:7; Revelation 12:17; Daniel 7:25; Daniel 12:1
- 8 1 Peter 1:19–20; Ephesians 1:4; Matthew 25:34; Revelation 17:8; Revelation 3:5
- 9 Revelation 2:7; Revelation 2:17; Revelation 2:11; Revelation 2:29
- 10 Jeremiah 15:2; Isaiah 33:1; Revelation 14:12; Revelation 3:10; Luke 21:19
- 11 Daniel 7:8; 2 Corinthians 11:13–15; Matthew 7:15; Revelation 17:6; Revelation 16:13
- 12 Revelation 17:10–11; Revelation 14:11; Revelation 14:9; Revelation 19:20; Revelation 13:3–4
- 13 Matthew 24:24; Revelation 16:14; 2 Thessalonians 2:9–10; Revelation 19:20; Deuteronomy 13:1–3
- 14 Revelation 19:20; Revelation 12:9; Revelation 13:8; 2 Thessalonians 2:4; Revelation 13:3–4
- 15 Revelation 16:2; Daniel 3:3–6; Revelation 19:20; Revelation 20:4; Revelation 17:6
- 16 Revelation 20:4; Revelation 19:20; Ezekiel 9:4; Deuteronomy 6:8; Revelation 14:9–11
- 17 Revelation 13:16; Revelation 14:11; Revelation 15:2; Revelation 22:4; Revelation 13:18
- 18 Revelation 15:2; Revelation 17:9; Revelation 21:17; Daniel 12:10; Revelation 1:3
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints." After this he likewise describes his armour-bearer, whom he also terms a false prophet: "He spake as a dragon, and exercised all the power of the first beast in his sight, and caused the earth, and those that dwell therein, to adore the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.
"There shall give consent to him all they that have not been written in the book of life." So then without doubt they will not consent that have been written.
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