“And the number of the army of the horsemen were two hundred thousand thousand: and I heard the number of them.”
The number of the troops of cavalry was two hundred million; I heard their number — the vast army (dyo myriades myriadon, literally ten thousand times ten thousand, or 200 million) of cavalry represents overwhelming military force. The precision of the number (heard, not merely seen) emphasizes its symbolic reality; this is demonic militarism at apocalyptic scale.
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