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What the Fathers say
Eastern Fathers
Oecumenius
Having completed in part the contemplation concerning the common Lady, the holy ever-virgin and Mother of God Mary, he presents to us another, saying: As in the beginning of the vision considered authoritative, it is said that the vision, wishing to narrate more fully the matters concerning the Antichrist, begins with the conception and birth of the Lord, for whose sake that destroyer, the common enemy and adversary of all, is projected so that he might again enslave those gathered by the Lord. …
Dionysius bar Salibi
And behold, a red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his head seven diadems. And his tail draws a third of the stars of the sky, etc.—What Daniel also names a beast, John calls a dragon, i.e., the Antichrist, or the Slanderer, the dragon, who urges him to persecute the saints. He calls the saints stars, according to what our Lord said: The righteous will shine like the stars. …
Western Saints
Bede
And behold, a great red dragon, etc. The devil, bloody in cruelty, is armed against the Church with the power of an earthly kingdom. In the seven heads, he speaks of all his kings, and in the ten horns, all his kingdoms.
Alcuin of York
And there was seen another sign in heaven: and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads, and ten horns: and on his heads seven diadems. The Devil is called a dragon because of his evilness, great because of the manifoldness of his snares, and red because of his murders. He is seen in heaven, that is in the Church, not because he possesses it, but because he opposes it. …
Victorinus of Pettau
"And there appeared another sign in heaven; and behold a red dragon, having seven heads." Now, that he says that this dragon was of a red colour-that is, of a purple colour-the result of his work gave him such a colour. For from the beginning (as the Lord says) he was a murderer; and he has oppressed the whole of the human race, not so much by the obligation of death, as, moreover, by the various forms of destruction and fatal mischiefs. …
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