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of the world."

Ver. 9. "If any man have an ear to hear, let him hear."

Ver. 10. "He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that
killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience
and the faith of the saints."

All worshiped the papacy except those who were really spiritual, and those
were slain. The tenth verse is a prophecy against her; as she killed with
the sword, so she shall be killed with the sword (the Word of God).

Ver. 11. "And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth: and he
had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."

Here appears upon the scene another beast. A human ecclesiasticism, a
manism. Protestant authors who brand the first beast as the Roman
hierarchy are confounded at the appearance of this second beast. By these
two beasts we understand the apostasy to be under two forms. We have no
hesitancy in branding this second beast as Protestantism. In the church of
God all is controlled exclusively by the Holy Spirit. There is no manism
in the church of God, therefore it is not animal or beastly. All sectism
is controlled largely by man, therefore is a beast power. At first
Protestantism had a mild, gentle, lamb-like appearance compared with
Catholicism.

The two horns are two state powers that gave support to the beast. Germany
and England supported Protestantism, therefore are the two horns. The
dragon spoken of in this eleventh verse is, like in the second verse and
also in chapter 12:3, a state power.

This second beast "exercised all the power of the first beast before him."
See ver. 12. Was this not true in England, where the king was head of both
church and state? Consequently we see that the second beast or man
religion spoken of was authorized by a dragon or state power. In verse
thirteen it is said he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come
down from heaven on the earth. Throughout the reign of Protestantism there
has been frequent spiritual revivals and reformations. God really sent the
Holy Spirit fire upon the honest efforts of men, and wonders were
accomplished betimes in the name of Jesus.

In the fourteenth verse it is said that he deceived them that dwell on the
earth by the means of those miracles which he did. Each reformation in the
past three centuries was begun by holy men, upon whom God sent the holy
fire; but others rising up subsequently, who were devoid of spirituality,
built upon their foundati