And there appeared another wonder in heaven: [a]for behold, a great red dragon having [b]seven heads, and ten [c]horns, and seven crowns upon his heads:

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Footnotes

  1. Revelation 12:3 That is the devil or Satan (as is declared verse 9,) mighty, angry, and full of wrath.
  2. Revelation 12:3 Thereby to withstand those seven Churches spoken of, that is the Catholic Church, and that with kingly furniture and tyrannical magnificence: signified by the crowns set upon his heads, and if the same without controversy belonged unto him by proper right: as also he boasted unto Christ, Matt. 4:9. See after, upon Rev. 13:1.
  3. Revelation 12:3 More than are the horns of the Lamb, or than the Churches are: so well furnished doth the tyrant brag himself to be, unto all manner of mischief.

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