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But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run back and forth, and knowledge shall be increased."
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I heard, but I didn't understand: then I said, my lord, what shall be the issue of these things?
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He said, Go your way, Daniel; for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.
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Many shall purify themselves, and make themselves white, and be refined; but the wicked shall do wickedly; and none of the wicked shall understand; but those who are wise shall understand.
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Who is wise, that he may understand these things? Who is prudent, that he may know them? For the ways of Yahweh are right, and the righteous walk in them; But the rebellious stumble in them.
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He answered them, "To you it is given to know the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven, but it is not given to them.
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"When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
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Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.
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Here is wisdom. He who has understanding, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is six hundred sixty-six.
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He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns.
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The angel said to me, "Why do you wonder? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carries her, which has the seven heads and the ten horns.
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Here is the mind that has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sits.
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The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth."
Les sept têtes figurent sept montagnes sur lesquelles la femme est assise. On ne saurait dire plus clairement que la femme, (versets 1-6) c'est Rome, la ville bâtie sur sept collines.
Cette indication précise s'oppose à toutes les applications qu'on a tenté de faire de ce symbole à l'Eglise déchue ; elle prouve que l'auteur avait en vue l'empire et sa capitale.
Il faut remarquer aussi que cette première explication s'écarte de la signification attribuée aux quatre bêtes de Da (7 :3-7) qui représentaient quatre rois (Daniel 7.17) ou royaumes ; (Daniel 7.23) ce sens devait naturellement passer aux sept têtes de la bête de l'Apocalypse, puisque ces sept têtes sont la somme des têtes des quatre animaux de Daniel 7.3-7. (Comparer Apocalypse 13.1, note.)
C'est à ce sens, plus conforme à la tradition, que l'auteur revient dans sa seconde explication des sept têtes. (verset 10) S'il fait ce rapprochement entre les sept têtes de la bête et les sept collines de la ville de Rome, c'est qu'il a trouvé dans la coïncidence du nombre des têtes et de celui des collines l'indice auquel il a reconnu que les sept têtes ne représentaient pas sept rois gouvernant des royaumes différents, comme les quatre rois de Daniel, mais sept empereurs de Rome.