ISB ~ Revelation 13 v7

war on the saints:Believers become martyrs when they refuse to worship the beast and its image (13:15; 20:4). According to some, this alludes to the Neronian persecution of the Church in the mid 60s; for others, the Domitian persecution of the late first century is in view (CCC 2113).

• The passage recalls the violence of the fourth beast in Dan 7:21.