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Daniel 8:5

Western Saints

Jerome

Verse 5. "And I myself understood..." On the basis of the previous visions which had symbolized the second kingdom by the ram and the he-goat, Daniel now also understood that he was looking at the empire of the Medes and Persians. "And behold, there was a he-goat which was coming from the West above the surface of the whole earth, and yet without touching the ground..." So that no one will think that I am attaching a private interpretation to this, let us simply repeat the words of Gabriel as he explained the prophet's vision. …

St. Jerome, Commentary on Daniel, CHAPTER EIGHT ↗

Hippolytus of Rome

But the male goat who comes from the south, he says is Alexander the Macedonian king of the Greeks.

Commentary on Daniel 4.26.3 ↗