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Upon the beast (ἐπί)
Read καὶ and: “the ten horns - and the beast.”
Desolate (ἠρημωμένην)
Lit., desolated, the verb being in the perfect participle.
Shall eat her flesh
A token of extreme hostility. See Psa 27:2; Mic 3:3. Xenophon, speaking of the hatred between the pure Spartans and the Helots, says that no one of the pure Spartans could conceal his readiness to eat the Helot raw. Notice the plural σάρκας flesh, and see on Jam 5:3.
Burn (κατακαύσουσιν)
Rev., giving the force of κατά down, burn utterly. According to some interpreters the figure is changed from the woman to a city; but this is unnecessary, as the language is probably taken from the punishment of fornication on the part of a priest's daughter (Lev 21:9; compare Lev 20:14).