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.
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4 additional translationsand 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.
The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 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 it a mouth, speaking great things and blasphemies; and there was given to it authority to pursue its career forty-two months.
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About this book
New TestamentRevelation — John on Patmos sees the Lamb who was slain enthroned, the scroll opened, Babylon fallen, and the new Jerusalem descending. The canon's capstone — and its most interpretively contested book.
- Author
- John (traditional — apostle of Jesus; same author as the Fourth Gospel). Some modern critical scholarship distinguishes ‘John of Patmos’ from the apostle; site defaults to traditional attribution
- Date
- Late-date c. AD 95–96 under Domitian (Irenaeus, mainstream traditional); early-date c. AD 65–68 under Nero (required by most preterist readings). Site surfaces both