Teks -- Revelation 13:14 (NET)

13:14 and, by the signs he was permitted to perform on behalf of the beast, he deceived those who live on the earth. He told those who live on the earth to make an image to the beast who had been wounded by the sword, but still lived.

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Robertson: Rev 13:14 - And he deceiveth

And he deceiveth ( kai planāi ).

Present active (dramatic) indicative of planaō , the very thing that Jesus had said would happen (Mat 24:24, "So as to lead astray"hōste planāsthai , the word used here, if possible the very elect). It is a constant cause for wonder, the gullibility of the public at the hands of new charlatans who continually bob up with their pipe-dreams.

Robertson: Rev 13:14 - That they should make an image to the beast

That they should make an image to the beast ( poiēsai eikona tōi thēriōi ).

Indirect command (this first aorist active infinitive of poieō ) after legōn as in Act 21:21, not indirect assertion. This "image"(eikōn , for which word see Mat 22:20; Col 1:15) of the emperor could be his head upon a coin (Mar 12:16), an imago painted or woven upon a standard, a bust in metal or stone, a statue, anything that people could be asked to bow down before and worship. This test the priests in the provinces pressed as it was done in Rome itself. The phrase "the image of the beast,"occurs ten times in this book (Rev 13:14, Rev 13:15 ter ; Rev 14:9, Rev 14:11; Rev 15:2; Rev 16:2; Rev 19:20; Rev 20:4). Emperor-worship is the issue and that involves worship of the devil.

Robertson: Rev 13:14 - The stroke of the sword

The stroke of the sword ( tēn plēgēn tēs machairēs ).

This language can refer to the death of Nero by his own sword.

Robertson: Rev 13:14 - And lived

And lived ( kai ezēsen ).

"And he came to life"(ingressive first aorist active indicative of zaō ). Perhaps a reference to Domitian as a second Nero in his persecution of Christians.

Vincent: Rev 13:14 - An image to the beast

An image to the beast ( εἰκόνα τῷ θηρίῳ )

Εἰκών is a figure or likeness . Thus Mat 22:20, of the likeness of Caesar on the coin. Rom 1:24, an image of men, birds, beasts, etc. Col 3:10, " the image of Him that created him;" i.e., the moral likeness of renewed men to God. Christ is called the image of God (Col 1:15; 2Co 4:4). Besides the idea of likeness , the word involves the idea of representation , though not of perfect representation. Thus, man is said to be the image of God (1Co 11:7). In this it resembles χαρακτήρ image in Heb 1:3. Caesar's image on the coin, the reflection of the sun in the water (Plato, " Phaedo," 99); and the statue or image of the beast in this passage, are εἰκών .

The word also involves the idea of manifestation . Thus, Col 1:15, where, in the image there is an implied contrast with the invisible God. Hence Philo applied the term to the Logos. See on Joh 1:1.

The word played an important part in the Arian controversy, in which the distinction was sharply emphasized between εἰκών image as assuming a prototype, and therefore as properly representing the relation of the Son to the Father, and ὁμοίωμα likeness , as implying mere similitude, and not embodying the essential verity of the prototype. The image involves the likeness , but the likeness does not involve the image. The latter may imply only an accidental resemblance, while the former is a veritable representation. Christ is therefore the εἰκών of God.

The image of the beast occurs ten times in Revelation; four times in this chapter, and in Rev 14:9, Rev 14:11; Rev 15:2; Rev 16:2; Rev 19:20; Rev 20:4.

JFB: Rev 13:14 - deceiveth them that dwell on the earth

The earthly-minded, but not the elect. Even a miracle is not enough to warrant belief in a professed revelation unless that revelation be in harmony with God's already revealed will.

JFB: Rev 13:14 - by the means of those miracles

Rather as Greek, "on account of (because of; in consequence of) those miracles."

JFB: Rev 13:14 - which he had power to do

Greek, "which were given him to do."

JFB: Rev 13:14 - in the sight of the beast

"before him" (Rev 13:12).

JFB: Rev 13:14 - which

A, B, and C read, "who"; marking, perhaps, a personal Antichrist.

JFB: Rev 13:14 - had

So B and ANDREAS read. But A, C, and Vulgate read, "hath."

Clarke: Rev 13:14 - Saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live

Saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live - The image of the beast must designate a person who represents in himself the whole power of the Latin empire, therefore it cannot be the emperor; for though he was, according to his own account, supremum caput Christianitatis , the supreme head of Christendom, yet he was only the chief of the Germanic confederation, and consequently was only sovereign of the principal power of the Latin empire. The image of the beast must be the supreme ruler of the Latin empire, and as it is through the influence of the false prophet that this image is made for the first beast, this great chief must be an ecclesiastic. Who this is has been ably shown by Bishop Newton in his comment on the following verse.

Defender: Rev 13:14 - image to the beast

Apparently all people will be required to make or buy small household replicas of the great image of the beast. The original image will be set up in the temple at Jerusalem (Mat 24:24; 2Th 2:4). Perhaps in some way (easily achieved in an age of electronically controlled and transmitted information), the loyalty of each household to the beast and his image could be monitored at a central data bank."

TSK: Rev 13:14 - deceiveth // dwell // they

deceiveth : Rev 12:9, Rev 18:23, Rev 19:20, Rev 20:3, Rev 20:10; 2Ki 22:20 *marg. Job 12:16; Isa 44:20; Eze 14:9; 2Th 2:9-12

dwell : Rev 13:3, Rev 13:8

they : Rev 13:3, Rev 13:4, Rev 13:11, Rev 13:12, Rev 13:15, Rev 14:9, Rev 14:11, Rev 15:2, Rev 16:2, Rev 19:20, Rev 20:4; 2Ki 20:7; Eze 8:10; Eze 16:17; Dan 11:36; 2Th 2:4

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Poole: Rev 13:14 - in the sight of the beast // Saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live

The Lord showeth his prophet by what means the papacy should cheat the world, viz. by pretences of miracles, which it had a power to work, (the doctrines of the Church of Rome to this are sufficiently known), all which are done

in the sight of the beast that is, to his honour, and to gain him a reputation. As God gave his prophets and apostles a power to work true miracles for the confirmation of their mission from him, and of the doctrines which they brought; so he permitted others to work lying wonders for the confirmation of their false doctrine. The apostle therefore describeth the coming of antichrist to be with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousess, 2Th 2:9,10 .

Saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live: these words show the design of this last mentioned beast, viz. to make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword. Mr. Mede’ s notion here seemeth best to me, that by the beast which had the wound by a sword, is to be understood the dragon, of whose wound we read, Rev 6:1-17 . He was the type of the pagan emperors, whom God rooted out. Antichrist’ s design was to make an image of that old beast, in which it might again live; which he did by his setting up the veneration of images, and the invocation of saints; the pagan idolatry lying chiefly in their adoration of persons (who had been famous amongst them) when they were dead, making them their mediators to their supreme gods, and in the veneration of their images and statues. The making the image of this beast, was the restoring of the same idolatry, changing only the names of princes and great soldiers, whom the pagans worshipped after their death, into the names of saints; in which image the dragon lived again: and it is sufficiently known how the Romish clergy deceiveth people into this idolatry by their stories of miracles done by such saints.

Gill: Rev 13:14 - And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth // by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast // saying to them that dwell on the earth // that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword, and did live

And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth,.... The Complutensian edition, and two of Stephens's copies, read "mine", instead of "them"; creatures of God, and professors of Christ, carnal and unregenerate men; not the elect of God, and true believers in Christ, these cannot be deceived by the signs and wonders of false Christs and false prophets; antichrist's deceivableness of unrighteousness only operates in them that perish:

by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; the secular power of the Papacy encouraging, confirming, and giving a sanction to those lying miracles, and obliging all to believe them, and come into the things, doctrines, or practices, they are designed to promote:

saying to them that dwell on the earth: the apostate church, or the carnal inhabitants of the empire: ordering and commanding them

that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword, and did live; meaning the Roman empire, which had received a deadly wound in its sixth head, the emperors, by the sword of the Goths, Huns, &c. but now revived in its seventh head, the pope of Rome, to whom the ten kings gave their kingdoms: the image made to this beast some understand of the translation of the empire to Charles the great, and his successors the emperors, by the pope of Rome, he ordaining so many electors to chose a king of the Romans, and elect an emperor when one was wanting; and this was an image to the first beast, a shadow, an appearance of the Roman empire, and but a shadow; for the power of inaugurating and crowning these emperors, and of setting up and deposing them when the pope pleased, lie reserved to himself: but rather this designs the image worship, or the worshipping of idols of gold and silver, of wood and stone, which he caused the inhabitants of the earth to make, and give adoration to; or else the whole Papal religion, and the Papacy itself, for the beast, and the image of the beast, are all along in this book afterwards mentioned together as being the same, Rev 14:9, which is an image of the Gentile religion, in their high priest, priests, temples, idols, offerings, garments, worshipping of angels, and saints departed, with a numerous train of rites and ceremonies, borrowed from the old Pagan religion; hence the Papists are called Gentiles, Rev 11:2, the Roman empire, represented by these two beasts, and this image, had now one head, the pope, as before an emperor, and a religion in it much resembling its ancient one; but, before that was set up, this image was in being.