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But it was not expounded unto him; therefore now I declare it unto thee.
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Behold, the days will come that there shall rise up a kingdom upon earth, and it shall be feared above all the kingdoms that were before it.
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In the same shall twelve kings reign, one after another,
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whereof the second shall begin to reign and shall have more time than any of the twelve.
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And this do the twelve wings signify which thou sawest.
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As for the voice which thou heardest speak, and that thou sawest not to go out from the heads but from the midst of the body thereof, this is the interpretation:
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that after the time of that kingdom there shall arise great strivings, and it shall stand in peril of falling. Nevertheless it shall not then fall, but shall be restored again to his beginning.
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And whereas thou sawest the eight small under feathers sticking to her wings, this is the interpretation:
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that in him there shall arise eight kings, whose time shall be but small and their years swift.
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And two of them shall perish, the middle time approaching; four shall be kept until their end begin to approach, but two shall be kept until the end.
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And whereas thou sawest three heads resting, this is the interpretation: