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Revelation 6:8

Eastern Fathers

Dionysius bar Salibi

Green horse indicates death and ruin, which will come in the end of times upon the inhabitants of the earth because of their evil works.

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Western Saints

Bede

And power was given to him over a fourth of the earth. Behold, the madness of Arius, born in Alexandria, reached as far as the Gallic Ocean, not only persecuting the pious bestially with famine of the word of God but also with physical sword. Another version translates it as a fourth part, because the three evil horses, relying on the devil as their leader, ride against the fourth cavalry of the Church.

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