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The seven heads represent both seven mountains and seven kings, and the ten horns are ten kings who have not yet received kingdoms. Of the seven kings, five have fallen, one is, the other has not yet come. The beast itself is an eighth king who is of the seven and "was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition ...
The "ten horns" that appear on the beast is a round number standing for the Seleucid kings between Seleucus I, the founder of the kingdom, and Antiochus Epiphanes , [20] comparable to the feet of iron and clay in chapter 2 and the succession of kings described in chapter 11. The "little horn" is Antiochus himself.
This is explained as a fourth kingdom, different from all the other kingdoms; it "will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it" (v. 23). The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom (v. 24). A further horn (the "little horn") then appears and uproots three of the previous horns: this is explained as a future king.
The Horns of Moses are an iconographic convention common in Latin Christianity whereby Moses was presented as having two horns on his head, later replaced by rays of light. [1] The idea comes from a translation, or mis-translation, of a Hebrew term in Jerome 's Latin Vulgate Bible , and many later vernacular translations dependent on that.
After the Exodus, God had Moses make two silver trumpets, (Numbers 10:2), later called the chazozra. The traditional sacred horn of the ancient Hebrews was the shofar , made from a ram 's horn. First trumpet
Truth was flung to the ground" by the little horn as it tramples the land: this is probably a reference to the Torah, the Law of Moses. [26] Daniel 8:13's "holy ones" most likely means angels, rather than saints, as in the King James Version. [27] Sometimes in the Hebrew Bible it seems to refer to the Israelites. [28]
The Bible just has some fucking crazy, funky language in it. “A beast rising out of the sea with 10 horns and heads and crowns.” It’s awesome. Not to be sophomoric about it, but the Bible ...
Because of an ambiguity in the Hebrew word קֶרֶן (keren) meaning both horn and ray or beam, in Jerome's Latin Vulgate translation of the Bible Moses' face is described as cornutam ("horned") when descending from Mount Sinai with the tablets, Moses is usually shown in Western art until the Renaissance with small horns, which at least served ...