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4. which gave--A, B, C, Vulgate, Syriac, and
ANDREAS read, "because he gave."
power--Greek, "the authority" which it had;
its authority.
Who is like unto the beast?--The very language appropriated to
God,
Ex 15:11
(whence, in the Hebrew, the Maccabees took their name; the
opponents of the Old Testament Antichrist, Antiochus);
Ps 35:10; 71:19; 113:5;
Mic 7:18;
blasphemously
(Re 13:1, 5)
assigned to the beast. It is a parody of the name "Michael" (compare
Re 12:7),
meaning, "Who is like unto God?"
JFB.
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