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which refers u/av to it. But if slbov is to be understood, it ought to be repeated from ver. 1, just as Pliny uses the verb of seeing by Ilyperbaton, H. N. Book VIII. c. 6 : Italy first saw elephants in the war with king Pyrrhus , and called them Lucanian oxen ; but (it saw them) at Rome 1 in a triumph , etc. But the connection of the dis- course is equally good, syov juiav, x.r.X. : comp. ver. 14 : and the Latin translator, whereas long ago he did not read I saw , seems thus to have construed the passage : and I saw a beast having seven heads — and (having) one of His [suis, not ejus~\ heads as it were slain to death . There is here, ver. 1, 2, 3, that mixture of cases, which we have seen more than once, and shall see somewhat below : and the connection is easy between the seven heads and one of the heads. One head is mentioned for the first : for sic, one , even without the article, means the first , ch. vi. 1, twice ; Ezek. xxxii. 1, especially in the Lxx., etc. The accusative [l'uav, which, as we lately noticed, depends by Hyperbaton on syov, ver. 1, most closely connects toge- ther the ascent of the beast out of the sea and the wound. Where- fore also he says, xg tpaX^v s6<puyy/svriv, not 6<pa,rroy,ivv}v, as dtirspa <7rsnru- xora, in the preterite, ch. ix. 1. The first head of the beast is the Pope in the Lateran , on the Coelian Mount, from Gregory VII. to Innocent III., or beyond him. During that space of time many adversities befel the Pope, through his contention with the Em- peror ; but he recovered from all. — ug sacpay/Mevyiv — efopuKsvdri, as it were slain [“ wounded to death”] — was healed) You may see pa- roxysms both of the wound and of the healing in the history of Gregory VII., Paschal II., Caiixtus II., Alexander III., and others. Whatever adversity then happened, belongs to the wound : whatever prosperity, belongs to the healing. — xa/ sQavfMuatv oXt\ i] yr\ ok/Gw rov dr\piov, and all the earth wondered after the beast ) that is, went after the beast with admiration. An abbreviated expression, as Acts xv. 23, writing and sending by their hands. All followed the beast with their feet, or eyes, or inclination ; for instance, in the Crusades.
4. K at ‘XpoasH'jvridav tGj dpaxovr/ — xa/ TrpoGsxvvrjGav to 6'/)p/ov) The verb vpoffzvvsTv, when it treats of the worship of God, everywhere takes the Dative ; and thus it is used of the worship of the angel, ch. xix. 10 : but when used of devils and idols, the Accusative, ch. ix. 20. Hence wpoG%uvs?v, with the Dative, seems to mean something more than with the Accusative, especially when the two cases are used in one passage, as here and ch. xiv. 9, 11, xx. 4. From this worship I have in my German Exegesis incidentally confirmed Proposition 2,
1 “ Romse autem (scil. vidit), etc.”