Passage Research
Revelation 13 — Sermon Preparation
Two beasts—one rising from the sea and one from the earth—are described as they compel the whole world to worship the dragon's authority. Below is a research summary for Revelation 13, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- Greek words / lemmas
- 4
- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Revelation 13 in the Greek
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Greek | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | KJV renderings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| θηρίον | thēríon | G2342 | 16 | beast |
| γῆ | gē | G1093 | 7 | country, earth, ground, land |
| προσκυνέω | proskynéō | G4352 | 5 | worship |
| ἀριθμός | arithmós | G706 | 4 | number |
| ἐξουσία | exousía | G1849 | 5 | authority, jurisdiction, liberty, power |
| εἰκών | eikṓn | G1504 | 4 | image |
| κατοικέω | katoikéō | G2730 | 4 | dwell, inhabitant |
How preachers through history handled this text
4 public-domain excerpts on Revelation 13, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“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 (ver. 1-10) the second, ver. 11, &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. …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 6 (Acts to Revelation), on Revelation 13:1–25 (Public Domain)
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