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
short space: Because the Lord beholds us both proud and weak, he says, that the days which he has introduced as singularly evil, are mercifully shortened; in truth, that he may both alarm their pride by the adversity of the time, and refresh their weakness by the shortness of it. <a
