¹¹ As for the beast that was and is not, it is an eighth, but it belongs to the seven, and it goes to destruction.

⁸ The beast that you saw was and is not and is about to ascend from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the inhabitants of the earth, whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, will be amazed when they see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.^(A)