“And upon his Horns ten Diadems. ”
The Homs on the Dragon had no diadems upon them; because the nations of the abyss had not then issued forth to erect kingdoms upon the Roman Habitable. But in the chapter before us, the Dragon-Horns of the sea are exhibited with diadems upon them, indicating that they were not Republics; but States, whose chief magistrates were en
“Homs are the symbols of power, exerted by strength of arms because such beasts as have horns make use of them as their arms.
“The Head of a beast answers to the supreme power, and that whether the supreme power be in one single person or in many. For as
“A Beast,” says Daubuz, “is the symbol of a tyrannical, usurping power or monarchy, that destroys its neighbors or subjects, and preys upon all about it, and persecutes the church of God?
“The four beasts in Dan. 7:3, are explained in ver. 7, of four kings or kingdoms, as the word king is interpreted, ver. 23.
“The Beast that ascendeth out of the Bottomless Pit” — Ch.
11:7
In the apocalypse there are the earth, the sea, the sand of the sea, the abyss, and the pit of the abyss. All these terms have their own special
In the Hebrew tongue any collection of waters is termed seas as in Gen. 1:10, “The gathering together of the waters, he called seas.” The word before us in the original is thalassa, on which the lexicon says, “when Homer uses it of a particular sea, he means the Mediterranean, for he calls the outer sea Okeanos, Ocean, and holds it to be a fiver.
But John in his symbolic standing “stood upon the Sand of the Sea”.
