Apocalypse 17:11
And the beast which was, and is not: the same also is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into destruction.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Et bestia, quæ erat, et non est : et ipsa octava est : et de septem est, et in interitum vadit.
- Greek New Testament (SBLGNT)
- καὶ τὸ θηρίον ὃ ἦν καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν. καὶ αὐτὸς ὄγδοός ἐστιν καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἑπτά ἐστιν, καὶ εἰς ἀπώλειαν ὑπάγει.
Haydock's commentary
The beast that was, and is not: is the eighth: and is of the seven. The devil reigns with the kings in all these ages: he is of the seven, because he is the prince under whom reign the wicked in all ages: he is also the eighth, inasmuch as he is their prince, and they are only his instruments. (Witham)
From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.
The Fathers on this verse
St Victorinus of Pettau Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John, From the seventeenth chapter
11. “And the beast which thou sawest is of the seven.”] Since before those kings Nero reigned.