on his horns’. These stand for his boastful self-importance, his deceived imagining of having great dominion, yet nonetheless his very real power. Never underestimate the devil’s power. One of his most successful con-tricks, remember, is to get people to think that he does not really exist, or that he is just some harmless cartoon figure with horns and a pointed tail to be joked about. This interpretation is further confirmed with the description given in verse 2 of his leopard-bear-lion looks. Those
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