And that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
And. So A B, Vulgate; but 'Aleph (') C, Irenaeus, 316, Coptic, Syriac, omit it.
Might buy - `may be able to buy.'
The mark, or the name - Greek, 'the mark, the name of the beast.' The mark may be, as in scaling the saints, not visible, but symbolical of allegiance. So the sign of the cross. The Pope's interdict has often shut out the excommunicate from social intercourse. Under Antichrist this shall reach its worst form.
Number of his name - implying that the name has numerical meaning.