Revelation 13:5
And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.
Note d'étude
Study Note
'And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months' — the twice-repeated 'was given' (edothē) in verses 5–7 is theologically significant: the beast's authority, speech, and warfare are divinely permitted rather than self-generated, keeping satanic power within the boundaries of divine sovereignty. The forty-two months (equivalent to 1,260 days and 'a time, times, and half a time' in Daniel 7:25 and 12:7) signals a bounded, limited period of tribulation, not an eternal reign. The passage shapes Christian theology's insistence that evil, however terrible, operates within divinely defined limits and will not outlast the purposes of God.
Autres traductions
and there was given to him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to him authority to continue forty and two months.
And there was given to it a mouth speaking great things, and evil-speakings, and there was given to it authority to make war forty-two months,
And there was given to him a mouth to say words of pride against God; and there was given to him authority to go on for forty-two months.
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