DID YOU KNOW?
The answer
That he was in hiding and would return. Jewish books called the Sibylline Oracles even foretell Nero coming back from the dead. Some scholars hear that story behind the beast whose "fatal wound had been healed" (Revelation 13:3).
Why it’s interesting
Nero was one of the most hated of the Roman emperors. The New Oxford Annotated Bible hears the same legend behind the beast that "was and is not" in Revelation 17:8.
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