Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 13:10

10 He that leadeth into captivity, shall go into captivity: He that killeth with the sword, must be killed with the sword . Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. .

As it was God's manner by the Prophets of old, when he had denounced Judgments against his People, to comfort them by a Prediction of the ruine of their Enemies; so here, by this his New-Testament-Prophet he assureth his Church, that Antichrist also should have his Period, and have the same measure meeted to him, which he had meeted out to others by leading into Captivity, and killing with the Sword; and indeed there are no Sins which God doth so ordinarily punish by retaliation, as Sins against Iustice and Mercy. (of which nature Persecutions are the most eminent,) Isa. 33.1, 2.

That is, there is a time for God's People to exercise their Faith and Patience. Patience, because they are like to wait for deliverance a long time, and to suffer many sharp things in the mean time; and Faith, because their deliverance will be a thing out of sight, of which they will have no security but from the Promise of God.

Marginal references: Gen. 9.6. Matth. 26.52.; Chap. 14.12.