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|<span id="17:11"></span> And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
|<span id="17:11"></span> And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
|The ravening animal that was alive, and is now dead, is in fact the eighth emperor. He is one of the seven, and is on his way to perdition.
|The ravening animal that was alive, and is now dead, is in fact the eighth emperor. He is one of the seven, and is on his way to perdition.
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|What does it mean that the eighth king is "of the seven"? The Holy Roman Empire's characteristics was borrowed from that of the previous seven: just as pagan Egypt and Assyria warred against Jews in the Old Testament and took them captive, so too did the beast from the bottomless pit persecute New Testament spiritual Jews with captivity. (Revelation 13:10) The religious ideology of the Holy Roman Empire was a syncretism of the philosophies from the fallen nations of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome, first incarnated in Constantinian Rome, the seventh king.
So the eighth belongs to the seven because of its characteristics, attributes, and behavior: it is the successor and merger of the previous seven "kings."
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