(Updated July 16, 2025)
This Author Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from the Ecclesiastical Writer, Oecumenius.
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Biblical Commentaries
Oecumenius, Commentary on the Apocalypse
- End Times | Ch. 6, Commentary on 11:7-8
(Ch. 6, Commentary on 11:7-8)1
He says, “the beast that ascends from the bottomless pit” (v. 7): he calls the Antichrist a “beast” because he is cruel, inhuman, and greedy for blood. He calls the life of human beings a bottomless pit, bitter wit its sins, distasteful, and never at rest with the proliferation of wicked spirits. For the wretch will not arise from any other source other than our own human nature. For he will be a man “whose coming is due to the activity of Satan” (2 Thess. 2:9), as has just been 103 | 104 said. Therefore he says “the beast will kill” the two witnesses, and he will cast their bodies unburied into the streets of Jerusalem. For he will reign there as king of the Jews, whom he will keep deceived as they comply with him and obey him in every way, as the Lord says according to John, “I have come in my Father’s name, and you do not receive me; if another comes in his own name, him you will receive” (John 5:43).
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