“After this,
I saw
In the visions,
By night,
A fourth beast.
It was terrifying,
Dreadful,
Exceedingly strong.
It had great iron teeth.
It was devouring.
It was breaking in pieces.
It was stamping
What was left,
With its feet.
It was different
From all the beasts
That preceded it.
It had ten horns.”
Daniel described, in the first-person singular, this fourth or last beast as not really comparable to any other animal. This night vision of a beast was terrifying and dreadfully strong. It had great iron teeth that devoured and tore to pieces anything it wanted to. It even stamped on whatever was left with its feet. It had 10 horns, probably a reference to the Greek, Alexander the Great, with his 10 successive rulers.
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