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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 11:7 - 11:7
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finished their testimony - The same verb is used of Paul’s ending his ministry by a violent death.
the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit - Greek, “the wild beast ... the abyss.” This beast was not mentioned before, yet he is introduced as “the beast,” because he had already been described by Daniel (Dan 7:3, Dan 7:11), and he is fully so in the subsequent part of the Apocalypse, namely, Rev 13:1; Rev 17:8. Thus, John at once appropriates the Old Testament prophecies; and also, viewing his whole subject at a glance, mentions as familiar things (though not yet so to the reader) objects to be described hereafter by himself. It is a proof of the unity that pervades all Scripture.
make war against them - alluding to Dan 7:21, where the same is said of the little horn that sprang up among the ten horns on the fourth beast.