<p>17:11 <i>And the beast that was and is not, is himself also an eighth, and is of the seven; and he goes into destruction</i>- We have noted several times the identity between the horns and the beast. The 'seventh which is the eighth' may mean that the final incarnation of the beast is in its seventh horn' as the horns were, are and shall be (:10), so with the beast itself. The apparent confusion between seventh an eighth in Hebrew thought is found in Lk. 9:28, where &quot;an eight days&quot; means seven days, a week. The idea may be that he is the seventh, and even the eighth, reckoning inclusively, because after this 'seventh' there shall be no 'eighth' to follow. Going away into destruction is the same idea as in Mt. 25:46, where the rejected one-time believers &quot;go away into everlasting punishment&quot;. Their destruction will be along with the beast; those who in their deepest heart identify with the world shall share the world's judgment.</p>