Walvoord well notes, “The identification of a head with the government over which he has authority is not a strange situation. The person is often the symbol of the government, and what can be said of the government can be said of him” (Revelation, 199). Many believed in a Nero redividus myth, in which Nero returns from the dead as the antichrist. In fact, in Armenian “the word Nero became and remains the equivalent for the Antichrist” (Beasley-Murray, Revelation, 211). Amazed at the apparent resurrection