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Daniel 7:8

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Jerome

Verse 8. "I was looking at the horns, and behold, another small horn rose up out of the midst of them, and three of the earlier horns were torn away before it. And behold, there were in that horn eyes like unto human eyes, and a mouth uttering overweening boasts." Porphyry vainly surmises that the little horn which rose up after the ten horns is Antiochus Epiphanes, and that the three uprooted horns out of the ten are Ptolemy VI (surnamed Philometer), Ptolemy VII (Euergetes), and Artaraxias, King of Armenia. …

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER SEVEN ↗

Hippolytus of Rome

But let us also demonstrate in another way that these things are true and clear and happen to the slaves of God. For Scripture does not lie in any way, nor does the Holy Spirit deceive his slaves the prophets, through whom he is well pleased to announce the plan of God to men, so that seeing these things happen, we might not fall, nor be troubled as beholding these strange things. For otherwise the consummation is not able to come upon this world except in this way. …

Commentary on Daniel 4.6.1-7.1 ↗