Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Revelation 17:11
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11. beast that . . . is not —his beastly character being kept down by outward Christianization of the state until he starts up to life again as "the eighth" king, his "wound being healed" ( :- ), Antichrist manifested in fullest and most intense opposition to God. The "he" is emphatic in the Greek. He, peculiarly and pre-eminently: answering to "the little horn" with eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things, before whom three of the ten horns were plucked up by the roots, and to whom the whole ten "give their power and strength" ( Revelation 17:12 ; Revelation 17:13 ; Revelation 17:17 ). That a personal Antichrist will stand at the head of the Antichristian kingdom, is likely from the analogy of Antiochus Epiphanes, the Old Testament Antichrist, "the little horn" in Daniel 8:9-12 ; also, "the man of sin, son of perdition" ( Daniel 8:9-27.8.12- : ), answers here to "goeth into perdition," and is applied to an individual, namely, Judas, in the only other passage where the phrase occurs ( Daniel 8:9-27.8.12- : ). He is essentially a child of destruction, and hence he has but a little time ascended out of the bottomless pit, when he "goes into perdition" ( Revelation 17:8 ; Revelation 17:11 ). "While the Church passes through death of the flesh to glory of the Spirit, the beast passes through the glory of the flesh to death" [AUBERLEN]. is of the seven —rather "springs out of the seven." The eighth is not merely one of the seven restored, but a new power or person proceeding out of the seven, and at the same time embodying all the God-opposed features of the previous seven concentrated and consummated; for which reason there are said to be not eight, but only seven heads, for the eighth is the embodiment of all the seven. In the birth-pangs which prepare the "regeneration" there are wars, earthquakes, and disturbances [AUBERLEN], wherein Antichrist takes his rise ("sea," Revelation 13:1 ; Mark 13:8 ; Luke 21:9-11 ). He does not fall like the other seven ( Luke 21:9-42.21.11- : ), but is destroyed, going to his own perdition, by the Lord in person. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-12" class="com-number"
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