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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Revelation 13:4 - 13:4
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which gave - A, B, C, Vulgate, Syriac, and Andreas read, “because he gave.”
power - Greek, “the authority” which it had; its authority.
Who is like unto the beast? - The very language appropriated to God, Exo 15:11 (whence, in the Hebrew, the Maccabees took their name; the opponents of the Old Testament Antichrist, Antiochus); Psa 35:10; Psa 71:19; Psa 113:5; Mic 7:18; blasphemously (Rev 13:1, Rev 13:5) assigned to the beast. It is a parody of the name “Michael” (compare Rev 12:7), meaning, “Who is like unto God?”