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And I saw one of his heads; that is, the leopard’s head.
As it were wounded to death: the seven heads of this beast are interpreted by the Spirit of God himself, to be
seven kings, Rev_17:10, i.e. seven forms of sovereign government in the Roman state, and these successive one to another; for it is said there:
Five are fallen, and one is, and the other is yet to come: so that this head must be either that then in being, or that to come; it cannot be that to come, because that does not receive its fatal blow and deadly wound till the final dissolution of the Roman (as the fourth metal) monarchy; therefore it must be that head then in being, viz. that of the pagan emperors: and the wounding of this head to death, is the conquering the pagan emperors, and the abolishing of paganism and idolatry, and putting a stop to persecution by the Christian emperors;
and his deadly wound was healed; and consequently this wound was healed when idolatry (for substance the same with the heathenish, though in a new dress) and persecution was restored (gradually) by the doctrine and practice of the Romish Church.