XIII.
Wherefore, bringing the visions of Daniel into
conjunction with these, we shall make one narrative of the two, and
show how true and consistent were the things seen in vision by the
prophet with those which Nabuchodonosor saw beforehand. For the
prophet speaks thus: “I Daniel saw, and, behold, the four
winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great
beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first
was like a lioness, and had eagle’s wings: I beheld till
the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth,
and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man’s heart was
given it. And behold a second beast, like to a bear, and it
raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it
between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise,
devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo a third beast,
like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a
fowl: the beast had also four heads. After this I saw, and
behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly;
its great iron teeth and its claws of brass1922
| 1922 These
words, καὶ οἱ
ὄνυχες αὐτοῦ
χαλκοῖ, are strange both to the
Greek and the Hebrew text of Daniel. |
devoured and brake in pieces, and it
stamped the
residue with the
feet of it: and it was diverse
exceedingly from all the
beasts that were before it; and it had ten
horns. I considered its
horns, and, behold, there came up among
them a little
horn, and before it there were three of the first
horns
plucked up by the roots: and, behold, in this horn were eyes like
the eyes of man, and a mouth speaking great things.”
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