And the symbol under consideration has two horns like a lamb.

From the use of the horns on the other symbols, some facts are apparent which may guide us to an understanding of their use on this last one.
A horn is used in the Scriptures as a symbol of strength and power, as in Deut.

33:17, and glory and honor, as in Job 16:15.
A horn is sometimes used to denote a nation as a whole, as the four horns of the goat, the little horn of Dan.

8, and the ten horns of the fourth beast of Dan.

7; and sometimes some particular feature of the government, as the first horn of the goat, which denoted not the nation as a whole, but the civil power as centered in the first king, Alexander the Great.
Horns do not always denote division, as in the case of the four horns of the goat, &c.; for the two horns of the ram denote the _union_ of Media and Persia in one government.
A horn is not used exclusively to represent civil power; for the little horn of Daniel's fourth beast, the papacy, was a horn when it plucked up three other horns, and established itself in 538.