"And I saw one of his heads as it were wounded unto death," signifies the discordance of their doctrinals with the Word, in which love, life, and works, are so often mentioned, which do not at all agree with that religious persuasion: "and his death stroke was healed," signifies the discordance apparently removed by assumed conjunctions of works with faith: "and the whole earth wondered after the beast," signifies acceptance by the more learned in the church, and a remote reception by those who are less learned.