1. Revelation 13:10 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

Who takes them captive and slays them?

Revelation 13:10 (ESV)

10 If anyone is to be taken captive, to captivity he goes; if anyone is to be slain with the sword, with the sword must he be slain. Here is a call for the endurance and faith of the saints.

This is the beast (Revelation 13:7), who uses his brutish power and its talent as leopard, bear and lion to persecute and kill (Acts 9:1; Acts 26:10).