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What the Fathers say
Western Saints
Jerome
And he saw a chariot with two horsemen, a rider on a donkey, and a rider on a camel. When I placed him on the watchtower, he saw a chariot coming with two horses, and a charioteer high above, and an ass and a camel drawing the chariot. But it signifies Cyrus, the king of the Persians and Medes, coming with little and great authority. For the Persians were formerly unknown before Cyrus and held no place among the nations; the Medes, however, were always very powerful. …
Thomas Aquinas
516. Second, the vision is set out, and first, he sets out the thing that was seen: and he saw a chariot with two horsemen, which was usually pulled by two horses, signifying the army of two kingdoms; a rider, namely of chariots, upon an ass, the kingdom of the Persians, which formerly was ignoble, a camel, the kingdom of the Medes, which was always lofty: as if these two animals were yoked together to a chariot in the place of two horses. …
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