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Rev_11:7. ὅταν τελέσωσι . “When they shall have finished.”[2864]
ΤῸ ΘΗΡΊΟΝ ΤῸ ἈΝΑΒΑῖΝΟΝ ΈΚ Τῆς ἈΒΎΣΣΟΥ . Only the infernal nature of the beast is to be learned from his rising out of the abyss,[2865] and his definitely antichristian character; further, from his contending against the witnesses of Christ,[2866] and overcoming and slaying them. The more detailed explanation of the beast, John himself does not give until chs. 13 and 17. The mention of the beast in this passage is undoubtedly proleptical,[2867] inasmuch as the concrete idea of the antichristian power under the definite form of the beast from the abyss, which is presupposed as known by the definite art. ΤῸ ΘΗΡ ., proceeds first from chs. 13, 17; meanwhile, not only is the idea of his Antichristian nature already to a certain extent intelligible from the entire context, but also the form of the description of the beast from the example of Daniel 7, to which the interpolation in Cod. A expressly refers.
[2864] Cf. Winer, p. 289.
[2865] Cf. Rev_9:1; Rev_9:11.
[2866] Cf. Rev_13:7.
[2867] De Wette, etc.