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J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Revelation 13:11
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Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
And I beheld another beast comming vp out of the earth, which had two hornes like the Lambe, but he spake like the dragon.
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.
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And I saw another beast rising out of the earth; and it had two horns like to a lamb, and spake as a dragon;
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but he talked like a dragon.
Then I saw another beast rising up out of the earth; he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke like a dragon.
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Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. This beast had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.
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Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like those of a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.
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And I saw another beast of prey ascending from the earth; and he had two horns like those of the lamb, and he spake as the dragon.
And I saw another beast of prey, which came out of the earth; and he had two horns like those of a lamb, and he spoke like the dragon.
And I beheld another beast comming vp out of the earth, and hee had two hornes like a lambe, and hee spake as a dragon.
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And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like unto a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
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Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.
Then I saw another beast coming up from the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, but was speaking like a dragon.
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.
Then I saw another beast come up out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb, but he spoke with the voice of a dragon.
Then I saw another beast that rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth: and he had two horns, like a lamb: and he spoke as a dragon.
And I beheld another wild beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.
Then I saw another beast, which came up out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb's horns, and it spoke like a dragon.
I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke like a dragon.
And I saw another wild beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, but he spake like a dragon;
Then I saw another Wild Beast, coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb, but he spoke like a dragon.
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And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.
Then I saw another beast which rose out of the earth; it had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
And I behelde another best commynge vp oute of the erth and he had two hornes like a lambe and he spake as dyd the dragon.
And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spoke as a dragon.
And I saw another beast coming up out of the land, and it had two horns, like a lamb, and it was speaking as a dragon,
And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and his voice was like that of a dragon.
And I saw another beast coming up out of the earth. And it had two horns like a lamb, but spoke like a dragon.
And I behelde another beest commynge vp out of the earth, and he had two hornes like a lambe, and he spake as dyd the drago.
Then I beheld another beast coming out of the earth, it had two horns like a lamb, but it spake like a dragon.
I saw another Beast rising out of the ground. It had two horns like a lamb but sounded like a dragon when it spoke. It was a puppet of the first Beast, made earth and everyone in it worship the first Beast, which had been healed of its deathblow.
Then I saw another wild animal coming out of the earth. He had two horns like those of a lamb. His voice was like that of the dragon.
Then another beast was seen coming up out of the ground. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon.
Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb and he spoke as a dragon.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
coming: Revelation 13:1, Revelation 11:7, Revelation 17:8
and he had: Matthew 7:15, Romans 16:18, 2 Corinthians 11:13-15
and he spake: Revelation 13:17, Revelation 12:3, Revelation 12:4, Revelation 12:17, Revelation 17:6, Daniel 7:8, Daniel 7:24, Daniel 7:25, 2 Thessalonians 2:4
Reciprocal: Exodus 7:11 - they also Job 34:30 - General Psalms 44:19 - in the Isaiah 27:1 - the dragon Ezekiel 13:4 - like Ezekiel 22:25 - like Ezekiel 29:3 - the great Daniel 7:17 - out Daniel 8:12 - and it practiced Daniel 8:23 - and understanding Daniel 11:34 - cleave Habakkuk 2:18 - a teacher Matthew 20:26 - it Ephesians 4:14 - by the Ephesians 6:11 - the wiles 2 Thessalonians 2:3 - man 2 Thessalonians 2:9 - and signs 2 Peter 2:18 - they speak Revelation 13:14 - they Revelation 14:9 - If Revelation 16:13 - come out of Revelation 19:20 - the false
Cross-References
Is not, all the land, before thee? I pray thee, separate thyself from me, - if to the left hand, then I will go to the right, if to the right hand, then I will go to the left.
And, Yahweh, said unto Abram after that Lot had separated himself from him, Lift up, I pray thee thine eyes and look, from the place where thou art, - northward and southward and eastward and westward;
And it came to pass when they had brought them forth outside, that they said, Escape for thy life, Look not behind thee, neither stand still in all the vale, - To the mountain, escape thou lest thou be swept away.
It belongeth unto the holy ones, whom, in his own land, Yahweh, ennobleth, In whom is all his delight
Companion, am I, to all who revere thee, and to them who keep thy precepts.
Thine own friend and thy father's friend, do not thou forsake; but, the house of thy brother, do not enter, in thy day of calamity, Better a neighbour near, than a brother far off.
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, according to the custom of some, but exhorting, and by so much the more as this, by as much as ye behold, the day, drawing near.
Unto all men, give honour, unto the brotherhood, shew love, unto God, give reverence, the king, hold in honour.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And I beheld another beast,.... The same with the first, only in another form; the same for being and person, but under a different consideration; the same antichrist, but appearing in another light and view: the first beast is the pope of Rome, at the head of the ten kingdoms, of which the Roman empire consisted; this other beast is the same pope of Rome, with his clergy, cardinals, archbishops, bishops, priests, c. before he is described as a temporal monarch, now as a spiritual lord there he is represented in his secular character, as having the seat, power, and authority of the dragon, of Rome Pagan, engaging the attention and wonder of the whole world, and striking terror into them, and as making war with the saints, and ruling over all nations and tongues; here in his ecclesiastic character, pretending great humility and holiness, showing signs and lying wonders, obliging to idolatry, and exercising tyranny and cruelty on all that will not profess his religion: that this is the same beast with the first in substance, though not in show, appears from his exercising the same power, causing all to worship the first beast, or himself as a temporal lord, by which he is supported in his spiritual dignity; and by mention being made only of one beast, at the close of this account, and of his mark, name, and number being but one; nor is there any other but one hereafter spoken, of in this book, either as ruling, or as conquered, and as taken, and as going into perdition, and as cast into the lake: this beast is described by his original,
coming up out of the earth; either from under it, out of the bottomless pit, from hell; or out of, a low condition, a poor crawling earthworm; the extracts of many of the popes, cardinals, and religious orders, have been very mean: or this may represent the secret and private manner, and slow degrees by which this monster of iniquity rose; as things gradually rise up out of the earth unobserved; this man of sin was springing up in the apostles' time, and by degrees rose up to the power and authority he is here said to have: or rather, as this beast, in his other form, rose up out of the sea, out of the commotions raised in the empire by the barbarous nations, by whom he was lifted up to his imperial dignity; so he is described in this form, and is represented as rising up out of the earth, out of the earthly part of the church, or out of the apostasy which the visible church was sunk into, through the outward riches and honours bestowed on it by the Christian emperors, which made way for the rising of this beast; and this shows the nature of his kingdom, which is worldly and earthly, and so truly antichristian, being diametrically opposite to the kingdom of Christ, which is not of this world:
and he had two horns like a lamb; or "like to the Lamb"; the Lord Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God; though he has seven horns, denoting fulness of power, this but two; he stands on Mount Zion, with the 144,000, having his Father's name on their foreheads, this upon the earth, with his followers, having his own mark and name upon them. The Ethiopic version renders it, "and he had two horns, and he seemed as a lamb"; he affected a lamb like disposition, pretended to great humility and meekness, calling himself "servus servorum", the servant of servants, to cover his pride, ambition, and tyranny; and would be thought to be a lamb without spot and blemish, ascribing to himself infallibility, and suffering himself to be called his Holiness, when he is the man of sin, and mystery of iniquity: by his "two horns" some understand his two fold power, secular and ecclesiastic; but as these are separately represented by two beasts, rather these two horns intend the two parts of the empire, eastern and western, into which it was divided, when this beast arose, and by which the Papacy was raised to its power, had supported in it; and the two supreme pontiffs, the bishop of Rome, and the bishop of Constantinople; or else the beast's power of binding and loosing, of dispensing with the laws of God, and of imposing his own laws on the consciences of men.
And he spake as a dragon; like the devil himself, affirming as he did, Luke 4:6; that the power of disposing of the kingdoms of this world, and the glory of them, was delivered to him, and he could give it to whom he would: he spake arrogantly, as if he was above all that is called God, and as if he was God himself; and he spake like a dragon cruelly, like the great red dragon, like the devil, who was a murderer from the beginning, breathing out slaughter, and threatenings against the saints, as Rome Pagan; and he spake lies in hypocrisy, blasphemies, idolatries, and doctrines of devils.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And I beheld another beast - Compare the notes on Revelation 13:1. This was so distinct from the first that its characteristics could be described, though, as shown in the Analysis of the Chapter, there was in many points a strong resemblance between them. The relations between the two will be more fully indicated in the notes.
Coming up out of the earth - Prof. Stuart renders this, “ascending from the land.” The former was represented as rising up out of the sea Revelation 13:1; indicating that the power was to rise from a perturbed or unsettled state of affairs - like the ocean. This, from what was more settled and stable - as the land is more firm than the waters. It may not be necessary to carry out this image; but the natural idea, as applied to the two forths of the Roman power supposed to be here referred to, would be that the former - the secular power that sustained the papacy - rose out of the agitated state of the nations in the invasions of the northern hordes, and the convulsions and revolutions of the falling empire of Rome; and that the latter, the spiritual power itself - represented by the beast coming up from the land - grew up under the more settled and stable order of things. It was comparatively calm in its origin, and had less the appearance of a frightful monster rising up from the agitated ocean. Compare the notes on Revelation 13:1.
And he had two horns like a lamb - In some respects he resembled a lamb; that is, he seemed to be a mild, gentle, inoffensive animal. It is hardly necessary to say that this is a most striking representation of the actual manner in which the power of the papacy has always been put forth - putting on the apparent gentleness of the lamb; or laying claim to great meekness and humility, even when deposing kings, and giving away crowns, and driving thousands to the stake, or throwing them into the dungeons of the Inquisition.
And he spake as a dragon - See the notes on Revelation 12:3. The meaning here is, that he spoke in a harsh, haughty, proud, arrogant tone - as we should suppose a dragon would if he had the power of utterance. The general sense is, that while this “beast” had, in one respect in its resemblance to a lamb - the appearance of great gentleness, meekness, and kindness, it had, in another respect, a haughty, imperious, and arrogant spirit. How appropriate this is, as a symbol, to represent the papacy, considered as a spiritual power, it is unnecessary to say. It will be admitted, whatever may be thought of the design of this symbol, that if it was in fact intended to refer to the papacy, a more appropriate one could not have been chosen.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Revelation 13:11. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth — As a beast has already been shown to be the symbol of a kingdom or empire, the rising up of this second beast must consequently represent the rising up of another empire. This beast comes up out of the earth; therefore it is totally different from the preceding, which rose up out of the sea. Earth here means the Latin world, for this word has been shown to import this already in several instances; the rising up of the beast out of this earth must, consequently, represent the springing up of some power out of a state of subjection to the Latin empire: therefore the beast, here called another beast, is another LATIN empire. This beast is the spiritual Latin empire, or, in other words, the Romish hierarchy; for with no other power can the prophetic description yet to be examined be shown to accord. In the time of Charlemagne the ecclesiastical power was in subjection to the civil, and it continued to be so for a long time after his death; therefore the beast, whose deadly wound was healed, ruled over the whole Latin world, both clergy and laity; these, consequently, constituted but one beast or empire. But the Latin clergy kept continually gaining more and more influence in the civil affairs of the empire, and in the tenth century their authority was greatly increased. In the subsequent centuries the power of the Romish hierarchy ascended even above that of the emperors, and led into captivity the kings of the whole Latin world, as there will be occasion to show in commenting upon the following verses. Thus the Romish hierarchy was at length entirely exempted from the civil power, and constituted another beast, as it became entirely independent of the secular Latin empire. And this beast came up out of the earth; that is, the Latin clergy, which composed a part of the earth or Latin world, raised their authority against that of the secular powers, and in process of time wrested the superintendence of ecclesiastical affairs from the secular princes.
And he had two horns — As the seven-headed beast is represented as having ten horns, which signify so many kingdoms leagued together to support the Latin Church, so the beast which rises out of the earth has also two horns, which must consequently represent two kingdoms; for if horns of a beast mean kingdoms in one part of the Apocalypse, kingdoms must be intended by this symbol whenever it is used in a similar way in any other part of this book. As the second beast is the spiritual Latin empire, the two horns of this beast denote that the empire thus represented is composed of two distinct spiritual powers. These, therefore, can be no other, as Bishop Newton and Faber properly observe, than the two grand independent branches of the Romish hierarchy, viz., the Latin clergy, REGULAR and SECULAR. "The first of these comprehends all the various monastic orders, the second comprehends the whole body of parochial clergy." These two grand branches of the hierarchy originally constituted but one dominion, as the monks as well as the other clergy were in subjection to the bishops: but the subjection of the monks to their diocesans became by degress less apparent; and in process of time, through the influence and authority of the Roman pontiffs, they were entirely exempted from all episcopal jurisdiction, and thus became a spiritual power, entirely independent of that of the secular clergy.
Like a lamb — As lamb, in other parts of the Apocalypse, evidently means Christ, who is the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world, it must have a similar import in this passage; therefore the meaning here is evidently that the two horns of the beast, or the regular and secular clergy, profess to be the ministers of Christ, to be like him in meekness and humility, and to teach nothing that is contrary to godliness. The two-horned beast, or spiritual Latin empire, has in reality the name, and in the eyes of the Latin world the appearance, of a CHRISTIAN power. But he is only so in appearance, and that alone among his deluded votaries; for when he spake:-
He spake as a dragon. — The doctrines of the Romish hierarchy are very similar to those contained in the old heathen worship; for he has introduced "a new species of idolatry, nominally different, but essentially the same, the worship of angels and saints instead of the gods and demi-gods of antiquity."
