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.
The leopard-like composite beast is without doubt a reference to the papacy, for it says that one of his heads was wounded unto death, which refers to the time in 1798 when the pope was taken prisoner by the French general Berthier, and later died in prison. Daniel also makes mention of the Leopard when he saw in vision four beasts coming up out of the sea. The lion is the first beast which he saw, then came the Bear, then the Leopard, and after that a terrible nondescript beast with ten horns.
Daniel 7: 2 Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. 4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
Daniel 7:5 And behold another beast, a second like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. 6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
Daniel 7:16 I came near unto one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all this. So, he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
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