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Daniel 7:16

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Hippolytus of Rome

But now the powerful beast is not one nation, but it is of many tongues and it gathers to itself from many races of men and prepares an army in a line of battle, and all are called Romans, though all are not from one country. So that the prophet was rightly amazed and foreseeing what was to come, he did not name from what country the beast was from, but he was amazed, saying, "My spirit shuddered in my being, I Daniel, and the visions of my head confused me. …

Commentary on Daniel 4.8.7-9 ↗