And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Blasphemies. So 'Aleph (') C, Andreas; B, 'blasphemy;' A, 'blasphemous things' (cf. Daniel 7:8; Daniel 7:11; Daniel 7:25). The "mouth" answers to both Antiochus Epiphanes' three and a half years of blasphemy against God's "tabernacle," suspending the daily sacrifice (notes, Daniel 8:1-27.), and to the little horn of the fourth kingdom, the papacy in its forty-two prophetic months, as also the great sacerdotalist pretensions of the Greek eastern (third kingdom) patriarchate in the same period.
Power - `authority:' legitimate х exousia (G1849)]. 'Aleph (') omits.
To continue - `to act,' 'work' х poieesai (G4160)]. B, "to make war" (cf. Revelation 13:4); but A C, Vulgate, Syriac, Andreas, omit "war;" 'Aleph (') has, 'to do what he wills' х ho (G3588) thelei (G2309)] (Daniel 11:36; Daniel 12:7).
Forty and two months - (notes, Revelation 11:2-3; Revelation 12:6.)