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For blasphemies (eis blasphēmias). “For the purpose of blasphemies.”
Against God (pros ton theon). “Face to face with God” in sheer defiance, like Milton’s picture of Satan in Paradise Lost. See Dan 7:25; Dan 8:10. The aorist ēnoixen is probably constative, for he repeated the blasphemies, though the phrase (anoigō to stoma, to open the mouth) is normally ingressive of the beginning of an utterance (Mat 5:2; Act 8:35). This verse explains Rev 13:5. The Roman emperors blasphemously assumed divine names in public documents. They directed their blasphemy against heaven itself (“his tabernacle,” tēn skēnēn autou, Rev 7:15; Rev 12:12; Rev 21:3) and against “them that dwell in the heaven” (tous en tōi ouranōi skēnountas), the same phrase of Rev 12:12 (either angels or the redeemed or both).