R E V E L A T I O N.
CHAP. XIII.
We have, in this chapter, a further discovery and description of the church's enemies: not other enemies than are mentioned before, but described after another manner, that the methods of their enmity may more fully appear. They are represented as two beasts; the first you have an account of (Revelation 13:1-10) the second, Revelation 13:11-18, c. By the first some understand Rome pagan, and by the second Rome papal but others understand Rome papal to be represented by both these beasts, by the first in its secular power, by the second in its ecclesiastical.