The scarlet beast and woman of Rev.17, as evidently apply also to Rome under papal rule, the symbols having especial reference to the distinction between the civil power and the ecclesiastical, the one being represented by the beast, the other by the woman seated thereon.
There is one symbol left, and that is the two-horned beast of Rev.13.
On this there is more difference of opinion; and before seeking for an application, let us look at the ground covered by those already examined.

Babylon and Medo-Persia covered all the civilized portion of Asia.

Greece covered eastern Europe including Russia.

Rome, with the ten kingdoms into which it was divided, as represented by the ten toes of the image, the ten horns of the fourth beast of Dan.

7, the ten horns of the dragon of Rev.12, and the ten horns of the leopard beast of Rev.
13, covered all Western Europe.