Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts
Daniel 8:2
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Ante-Nicene Fathers, Volume 5, page 210, footnote 9 (Image)
Hippolytus, Cyprian, Caius, Novatian, Appendix
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Treatise on Christ and Antichrist. (HTML)
... speakest to me of the leopard; and whence canst thou know this, for thou art already gone to thy rest? Who instructed thee to announce these things, but He who formed thee in (from) thy mother’s womb? That is God, thou sayest. Thou hast spoken indeed, and that not falsely. The leopard has arisen; the he-goat is come; he hath smitten the ram; he hath broken his horns in pieces; he hath stamped upon him with his feet. He has been exalted by his fall; (the) four horns have come up from under that one.[Daniel 8:2-8] Rejoice, blessed Daniel! thou hast not been in error: all these things have come to pass.
Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 2, Volume 13, page 354, footnote 1 (Image)
Gregory the Great II, Ephriam Syrus, Aphrahat
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CCEL Footnote 743 (In-Text, Margin)
... he-goat came from the west and smote the ram and broke his horns and humbled the ram completely. But the ram was the King of Media and Persia, that is, Darius; and the he-goat was Alexander, the son of Philip, the Macedonian. For Daniel saw the ram when he was in the East before the gate of Shushan the fortress that is in the province of Elam, upon the river Ulai. And he was pushing towards the West and towards the North and towards the South. And none of the beasts could stand before him.[Daniel 8:2] And the he-goat of the goats came up from the region of the Greeks, and exalted himself against the ram. And he smote him and broke both his horns, the greater and the lesser. And why did he say that he broke both his horns? Clearly because he ...