5TC/HF/LF 333/353/235 (EGW): "The Beast With Lamblike Horns"
ELLIOTT3 1232: "THE TWO-HORNED LAMB-LIKE BEAST"
CLARKE 129458: "Another beast with two horns"
TBUS 27.1 (Loughborough): "No power previous to the two-horned beast, has been in prophecy symbolized by lamb-like horns. We shall claim that they symbolize two things"
USLP 158.1 (Uriah Smith): "To receive the mark of the beast in the forehead, is, we understand, to give the assent of the mind and judgment to his authority in the adoption of that institution which constitutes the mark. By parity of reasoning, to receive it in the hand would be to signify allegiance by some outward act."
TBUS 70.1 (Loughborough): "The forehead is the seat of the mind. There the decision is made by men whether they will keep this institution or not. This mark is also to be received in the right hand."
TBI 111.2 (Uriah Smith): "the forehead represents the seat of the mind and judgment, receiving the mark there may be explained as giving the assent of the judgment..."
TTAM 8.1 (EGW): "This mark is very conspicuous, in the forehead or hand, and signifies not a literal mark, but a prominent profession... It is the mark of the beast; therefore it is a prominent point of religious faith introduced by the Papal power, which is the observance of the first day of the week as a holy day of rest instead of the seventh."
PFF2 301 (Froom): "SECOND BEAST SAME AS FALSE PROPHET"
JTLD 89.2 (EGW): "This pseudo-religious awakening culminates in the 'lawless one' bringing about an alliance of evil, symbolized by the unholy trio of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet"
DAR 440.2 (Uriah Smith): "sign, seal, token, and mark are synonymous terms. Now, the Lord expressly says that the Sabbath is a sign between him and his people... Exodus 31:13. The same fact is again stated by the prophet Ezekiel 20:12, 20."
8T 117.3 (EGW): "The sign, or seal, of God is revealed in the observance of the seventh-day Sabbath, the Lord's memorial of creation."
SSP 132.2 (Haskell): "Hallow My Sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between Me and you..."
TBUS 68.2 (Loughborough): "Sign and seal are synonymous terms. See Romans 4:11."
Search 7: Elliott on earth beast (--book ELLIOTT3)¶
ELLIOTT3 1232-1347: Multiple chapter sections on "THE TWO-HORNED LAMB-LIKE BEAST"
Elliott identified the two-horned beast as the apostate church working through civil power
Search 8: Barnes on earth beast (--book BARNESREV)¶
BARNESREV 966: "The vision in this chapter is of two distinct 'beasts,' each with peculiar characteristics, yet closely related, deriving their power from a common source"
BARNESREV 986: "POINTS IN WHICH THE TWO BEASTS RESEMBLE OR SUSTAIN EACH OTHER"
Search 9: Guinness on mark/image (--book GUINNESS)¶
GUINNESS 366: "Image worship and inhuman cruelty, idolatry and persecution, have been their characteristics. Nebuchadnezzar made an image... and demanded for it world-wide worship"
GUINNESS 2528: "As this is the number of the Beast, we may expect to find it in various shapes in the chronology of the Beast"
PFF2 301 (Froom): "SECOND BEAST SAME AS FALSE PROPHET"
JTLD 89.2/JTL6 7.5 (EGW): "unholy trio of the dragon, the beast, and the false prophet, that will deceive the world and legislate against the Sabbath"
Search 12: "two horned beast United States America"¶
TBUS (Loughborough): "The Two-Horned Beast of Rev. XIII, a Symbol of the United States"
DAR 534.4 (Smith): "The manner in which the two-horned beast was seen coming up shows, equally with its location, age, and chronology that it is a symbol of the United States"
BR-ASI9 311.4 (EGW): "The two-horned beast is understood to represent the United States of America, with her principles of civil and religious liberty."
Search 13: "Daniel three image worship death furnace parallel"¶
RH Dec 11, 1888 (EGW): "For refusing to worship the great golden image which Nebuchadnezzar had set up, the three Hebrews were cast into the fiery furnace."
GUINNESS 366: "Nebuchadnezzar made an image, probably of the image he had seen, and demanded for it world-wide worship"