Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Revelation 13:4
which gave—A, B, C, Vulgate, Syriac, and ANDREAS read, "because he gave."
power—Greek, "the authority" which it had; its authority.
Who is like unto the beast?—The very language appropriated to God, Exodus 15:11 (whence, in the Hebrew, the Maccabees took their name; the opponents of the Old Testament Antichrist, Antiochus); Psalms 35:10; Psalms 71:19; Psalms 113:5; Micah 7:18; blasphemously (Revelation 13:1, Revelation 13:5) assigned to the beast. It is a parody of the name "Michael" (compare Revelation 12:7), meaning, "Who is like unto God?"
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