The beast, mentioned Revelation 13:11, had power to give life unto this new formed idolatry, conformable to that of the pagans, in which the old beast again lived: he gave life to it by his decrees and bulls, and canon laws, and by his excommunications and censures of those that would not comply with his idolatry as heretics; after which the persons so adjudged were delivered up to the secular power to be put to death.
Related Commentaries of Revelation 13:15
Revelation 13:15
15 And he had power to give lifed unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.