Revelation 13:3
Revelation 13:3 And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and all the world wondered after the beast.
This was the Roman papal head, the Pope, who is the eighth head, and is of the seven, as \ The beast that John saw rise out of the sea, had seven heads and ten horns as well as the dragon, only the principal distinction between them is this, the dragons heads were crowned, and the beasts horns were crowned, (as hath been shewed in the exposition of chapter 12, verse 3 See KNOLLYS: Revelation 12:3 and this 13th chapter, verse 1.) See KNOLLYS: Revelation 13:1
By
one of the beasts heads,
we are to understand the last head of the Roman pagan dragon; viz. his seventh head, and the first head of the Roman papal beast, was wounded (as it were) unto death, that is, had a deadly wound given him by the great Barbarian armies, (before mentioned) by whom Rome was sacked, and the Pope of Rome made to fly from thence to Vienna, (as historians testify)
And his deadly wound was healed;
that is, by the beast that came up out of the earth. \ See the exposition thereof. See KNOLLYS: Revelation 13:11 and See KNOLLYS: Revelation 13:12
And all the world wondered after the beast
by the world here, we are to understand all the then inhabiters of the earth, whose names are not written in the lamb’ s book of life. \ By
wondering after the beast,
we may understand their admiring of him, as \ And they worshipped the beast, saying, who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him? And their adoring of him above all that is called God, or that is worshipped. \