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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
Verse 6. "After this I beheld, and lo, there was another beast like unto a leopard, and it had four wings of a bird all its own, and there were four heads to the beast, and power was given to it." The third kingdom was that of the Macedonians, of which we read in connection with the image, "The belly and thighs were of bronze." It is compared to a leopard because it is very swift and hormetikos, and it charges headlong to shed blood, and with a single bound rushes to its death. …
Hippolytus of Rome
Some of the historians recorded that these ruled two hundred forty-five years until Darius the chief, whom Alexander of Macedon deposed in the seventh year and transferred the kingdom of the Persians to the Greeks. Just as also Daniel says, "After this I was looking, and behold, another beast like a leopard and four wings of a bird were upon it and four heads were on the beast, and authority was given to it." [Daniel 7:6] And so having named a leopard, he signals the kingdom of the Greeks, which Alexander of Macedon began, and he …
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