La papauté n'est rien d'autre que le fantôme du défunt Empire romain, siégeant couronné sur sa tombe.
Leviathan
Contexte et précisions
En anglais : " And if a man consider the original of this great ecclesiastical dominion, he will easily perceive that the papacy is no other than the ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof: for so did the papacy start up on a sudden out of the ruins of that heathen power."