me, both from critical and contextual considerations, by far the more eligible. Thus we have what is so frequent in this book, an Old Test. citation (see below): and all falls into its place in connexion with the victorious war of the beast against the saints: whereas the other declaration is at least out of place in the context.—If any man hath an ear, let him hear (this notice is given to bespeak solemn attention to what follows, as warning Christians of their fate in the days of the beast’s persecution).