Matthew Poole and continuators on Revelation 13:3

3 And I saw one of his heads , as it were wounded to death ; and his deadly wound was healed : and all the world wondred after the beast o.

That is, the Leopard's Head.

The seven Heads of this Beast are interpreted by the Spirit of God himself, to be seven Kings, ch. 17.10. i. e. seven Forms of Soveraign Government in the Roman State, and these successive one to another; for it's 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, & the abolishing of Paganism and Idolatry, and putting a stop to Persecution by the Christian Emperors; and consequently

this Wound was healed when Idolatry (for Substance the same with the heathenish, tho in a new dress) and Persecution was restored (gradually) by the Doctrine and Practice of the Romish Church.

Marginal references: Gr. slain.; Chap. 17.8.