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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Verse 4. "The first beast was like a lioness and possessed the wings of an eagle. I beheld until her wings were torn away, and she was raised upright from the ground and stood on her feet like a human being, and she was given a human heart." The kingdom of the Babylonians was not called a lion but a lioness, on account of its brutality and cruelty, or else because of its luxurious, lust-serving manner of life. …
Hippolytus of Rome
"The first was a lioness and feathers were upon it as an eagle." [Daniel 7:4] And so he, while speaking, names a lioness as the kingdom of the Babylonians which Nebuchadnezzar then ruled. Then he says, "feathers were upon it as an eagle," [Daniel 7:4] because the king was lifted up and raised up against God, being puffed up in heart on account of the greatness and glory which came to him. …
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