fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces. The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom. And another shall rise after them; he shall be different from the first ones, and shall subdue three kings’ ” (Daniel 7:19–24). Saint Hippolytus (d. 236) declares the “little horn” of Daniel’s vision to be Antichrist: “And amid these another little horn shall rise, which
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