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Search 1: "beast from sea Revelation 13"

  1. PFF4 1083 (Froom): "Revelation 13-BEAST FROM SEA WOUNDED" — chapter heading
  2. PREX1 95 (Josiah Litch): "THE BEAST OF REVELATION THIRTEENTH CHAPTER"
  3. BR-ASI9 188 (EGW): "The Ten-Horned Beast of Revelation 13"
  4. 4SP 502.1 (EGW): "The beast of Revelation 13:1-10 is understood to refer to the papal power. This has been the general opinion of Protestants."
  5. PFF1 774.4 (Froom): Olivi identifies first beast rising from "sea of infidel or pagan nations" as "the bestial crowd and sect"
  6. PFF4 1100.3 (Froom): Andrews says beast of Rev 13:1-10 is papal Rome; second beast rises in new territory about end of 1260 years
  7. ELLIOTT3 749 (Elliott): "I now proceed to the exposition of the two Apocalyptic visions of the Wild Beast from the abyss and sea... making reference to other prophecies on the same subject, of Daniel, St. Paul, or St. John"
  8. MWV1 219.3 (William Miller): Quotes Rev 13:1-7 fully and connects to Daniel

Search 2: "deadly wound papacy"

  1. PFF3 355 (Froom): "PAPACY'S DEADLY WOUND OF 1798 SKINNED OVER"
  2. FLB 329.4 (EGW): "The infliction of the deadly wound points to the downfall of the Papacy in 1798. After this... 'His deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.'"
  3. 8MR 354 (EGW): "MR No. 628—Pius VI, The Pope of the Deadly Wound"
  4. SHR 27.1 (Uriah Smith): "the life of the beast is recognized as continuing right along; for the prophecy... does not say that he did die, but that he had a wound by a sword, and 'did live!'"
  5. HF 353.3 (EGW): "The deadly wound points to the downfall of the papacy in 1798... Paul states that the 'man of sin' will carry forward his work of deception to the very close of time."
  6. THB 5.2 (Loughborough): "Papacy received its deadly wound in 1798, about which time the temporal sovereignty of the Pope was declared to be wholly at an end. And, as the healing of a wound is a gradual work..."
  7. 5TC 334.1 (EGW): Same content as HF 353.3 on deadly wound = 1798

Search 3: "42 months 1260 years"

  1. PFF2 301.1 (Froom): "The time period is 1260 years, or forty-two months."
  2. PFF3 183 (Froom): "1260 YEARS DATED FROM 456" — dating variant
  3. PFF3 241 (Froom): "1260 YEARS BEGAN BETWEEN 500-553"
  4. PFF2 326 (Froom): "1260 YEARS PLACED FROM 441 TO 1701" — another dating
  5. NAPIER 2128 (Napier): "dates, euen 1260 years"
  6. FABER 62 (Faber): Discusses 1260 years of 360 days each
  7. GUINNESS 2564 (Guinness): "1260 years have 6606 days of epact"
  8. PFF3 38 (Froom): "1260 DAYS INVOLVE 1260 YEARS" — day-year principle

Search 4: "lion bear leopard beast composite"

  1. PFF1 47 (Froom): "COMPOSITE BEASTS WERE COMMON PORTRAYALS" — ancient Near Eastern context
  2. PFF3 59.2 (Froom): Verse poem listing lion, bear, leopard and "The last more strong, and dreadfull, then the rest"
  3. GUINNESS 343 (Guinness): "The first like a lion, another like a bear, another like a leopard."
  4. DAR 124.2 (Uriah Smith): "Of the first three beasts of this series, Daniel had so clear an understanding that he had no trouble... the further we come down the stream of time, the further it is necessary to depart from nature"
  5. BARNESDAN 252 (Albert Barnes): On the leopard: "an animal resembling the lion, except that it is smaller"
  6. TBUS 26 (Loughborough): "DESCRIPTION OF THE BEAST"

Search 5: "blasphemy names God"

  1. CLARKE 15358 (Adam Clarke): Discusses the nature of blasphemy and naming false gods
  2. HENRY 5089 (Matthew Henry): On the divine Name being blasphemed
  3. TNEWTON 3942 (Thomas Newton): "Blasphemy against God may be said to be of two kinds, not only speaking dishonourably of the supreme Being, but likewise attributing to the creature what belongs to the Creator"
  4. MWV2 82.5 (William Miller): "His name is blasphemy, because he causes all... to worship stocks and stones, idols of gold, and silver"

Search 6: "who is like the beast"

  1. BR-ASI9 137.9 (EGW): "What was the first beast like?"
  2. CLARKE 129608 (Clarke): "who worship the beast"
  3. PFF1 32 (Froom): "BEAST" — definitional
  4. 5TC 260 (EGW): "The Beast and His Image" — chapter heading
  5. ELLIOTT4 5664 (Elliott): "identical with Beast from abyss"

Search 7: "war with saints overcome them" (book: ELLIOTT3)

  1. ELLIOTT3 607: Quotes Dan 7:21: "I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them"
  2. ELLIOTT3 1212: "the Beast opened his mouth to blaspheme, or speak evil of them: next, 'it was given him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them.' — And how can there be better described, than by these words, the double injuries inflicted by the Popes on Christ's saints, from age to age? Heretics..."
  3. ELLIOTT3 485: Quotes Rev 13:7 — "authority was given unto him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations"

Search 8: "seven heads ten horns beast" (book: BARNESREV)

  1. BARNESREV 970 (Barnes): "It has seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten crowns or diadems"
  2. BARNESREV 917 (Barnes): "The seven heads would somehow denote power, or seats of power. Such a number of heads increase the terribleness"
  3. BARNESREV 1005 (Barnes): Quotes Rev 13:1 — beast from sea with heads and horns
  4. BARNESREV 1006 (Barnes): "The reference here is to Rome, or the one Roman power, contemplated as made up of ten subordinate kingdoms"

Search 9: "dragon gave power seat authority beast"

  1. PREX1 99.2 (Josiah Litch): "The seat of the dragon was transferred to the beast."
  2. BR-ASI9 189 (EGW): "The Dragon Gives Place to the Beast"
  3. CUNINGHAME 2460 (Cuninghame): "The dragon gave the beast his power, and his throne, and great authority. The word 'throne' is here evidently used as synonymous with the other two."
  4. BR-ASI9 184.11 (EGW): Quotes Rev 13:2 on the threefold delegation
  5. CUNINGHAME 1684 (Cuninghame): "It denotes, that the beast was the tool and instrument of the dragon"
  6. FABER 2057 (Faber): "the giving of a seat or throne to the beast by the dragon evidently means the investing him with the same secular power of making war with the saints"

Search 10: "Daniel seven four beasts revelation composite" (book: GUINNESS)

  1. GUINNESS 342: "Daniel's Vision of the Four Great Beasts. Four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another."
  2. GUINNESS 991: "This scarlet-coloured beast is then a symbol of the final form of the Roman power... the same power is symbolised a third time in the 'beast from the abyss'"
  3. GUINNESS 764: On Daniel's four beasts: "the first beast is still the Babylonian empire... the plucking of the eagle's wings"
  4. GUINNESS 1274: "When the four symbolic beasts were presented to Daniel, it was the fourth that arrested his gaze, and it was the 'little horn'... So when Paul predicted the future of the church on earth, it was the rise, domination and decay of this same evil power"
  5. GUINNESS 2521: "the period of the dominion of the little horn of the fourth beast... the Roman Empire; and the little horn which had eyes and a mouth speaking great things... represents a power which was to arise in the latter days... unquestionably the Papacy"

Search 11: "mouth speaking great things blasphemies Daniel"

  1. DAR 524.5 (Uriah Smith): Quotes Rev 13:5 — "there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies"
  2. CUNINGHAME 540: "His mouth speaking blasphemies"
  3. GUINNESS2 545 (Guinness, Romanism and the Reformation): "In each case this mouth speaks the same things. Of the mouth of the Roman horn Daniel says, in chapter vii., 'it spake great things' (v. 8), 'the great words which the horn spake' (v. 11), 'very great things' (v. 20), 'great words against the Most High' (v. 25). While of the Roman head in the Apocalypse John says: 'There was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies'"