And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he comes, he must continue a short time.
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Bede
AD 735
five: Seeing that he had described in the number seven the fulness of worldly dominion, the last part of which, that is, the kingdom of Antichrist, had not yet come; he now accordingly testifies that five kings had passed away, that the sixth was present, that the seventh was to come.
