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Commentaries:
People's Commentary (NT)
Revelation 13:12
He . . . causeth the earth . . . to worship the first beast. The
spiritual power of Rome is exercised before, or in the presence of, the
temporal power. They have dwelt together, and it is the spiritual power
that has made those that dwell upon the earth regard and pay homage to
the temporal. If an earthly ruler refused to heed the mandates of the
Pope, his subjects were absolved from allegiance and bidden to depose
him. If they refused, the whole kingdom was laid under interdict, the
churches were closed, religious rites were suspended, the dead were not
buried in the consecrated grounds, and a superstitious population soon
demands deliverance by submission. It was by the terrors of the
spiritual power that the earth was brought into subjection to the
imperial temporal sway of the Popes. The second beast has made men
worship the first.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
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