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Entrar para revisão“Quando uma Besta ou Homem é posta para um reino, suas partes e qualidades são colocadas para as partes e qualidades análogas do reino.”
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When a Beast or Man is put for a kingdom, his parts and qualities are put for the analogous parts and qualities of the kingdom
Vol. I, Ch. 2: Of the Prophetic Language
Observations upon the Prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John (1733)
Contexto: Yet sometimes vegetables and animals are, by certain epithets or circumstances, extended to other significations; as a Tree, when called the tree of life or of knowledge; and a Beast, when called the old serpent, or worshiped. When a Beast or Man is put for a kingdom, his parts and qualities are put for the analogous parts and qualities of the kingdom; as the head of a Beast, for the great men who precede and govern; the tail for the inferior people, who follow and are governed; the heads, if more than one, for the number of capital parts, or dynasties, or dominions in the kingdom, whether collateral or successive, with respect to the civil government; the horns on any head, for the number of kingdoms in that head, with respect to military power...
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Fonte: Revista ISTOÉ Gente, Edição 354.

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