suggests meekness and innocence. However, this is deceptive for its voice is like “the dragon,” that is, it speaks for the dragon of Revelation 12, who is the devil. Victorinus (third century) in his Latin commentary says that this beast from the earth is “a false prophet” (“falsum prophetam”) which “places in the temple of Jerusalem a golden image [idol] of the Antichrist” (“imago aurea Antichristi in templo Hierosolymis ponatur”).50 Oecumenius (sixth century) in his Greek commentary cites 2 Thess