Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Daniel 4:30

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 358, footnote 2 (Image)

Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat

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CCEL Footnote 785 (In-Text, Margin)

... lions caused them to wander.  First the king of Assyria devoured him.  And this last was stronger than he, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. So Jeremiah called him a lion. And he said:— He has the wings of an eagle. For thus it is written that, when Nebuchadnezzar went out to the wilderness with the beasts, he grew hair like (the plumage) of an eagle. And he said:— I saw that its wings were plucked away and it stood upright upon its feet as a man, and a man’s heart was given to it.[Daniel 4:30] For first, in the vision of the image, he was compared to gold which is more precious than anything which is used in the world. So in the vision of the beasts he is compared to a lion which excels in its might all the beasts. And again he was ...