He stood (εσταθη). First aorist passive indicative of ιστημ (intransitive), as in 8:3. "He stopped" on his way to war with the res…

CHAPTER XIII

ANALYSIS OF THE CHAPTER

This chapter is closely connected with chapter 12, which is properly introductory to this and to…

And I . . .—Better, And he (not “I stood,” as in the English version, but he, i.e., the dragon) stood upon t…

(1a) Most modern translations include v.1a as the concluding verse of ch. 12 because they adopt manuscripts that read “he [i.e., the dragon] stood”…

And I stood upon the sand of the sea
The Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Ethiopic versions read, "and he stood" and so th…

The apostle, standing on the shore, saw a savage beast rise out of the sea—a tyrannical, idolatrous, persecuting power, springing up out of the tro…