Читать толкование: Книга пророка Даниила, Глава 7, стих 17. Толкователь — Ефрем Сирин преподобный

THE SECRET MEANING DISCLOSED BY AN ANGEL. EPHREM THE SYRIAN: The secret meaning of that vision had been disclosed to him by the angel, and the expression “four beasts” indicated the four empires: the Babylonian, which flourished at that time, the Mede, the Persian and the Greek. But the power, he says, would have been transferred, at a certain time, from these kingdoms to the holy ones of the Most High because of the mystery hidden in many righteous people of his people and in the holy ones of the Most High, and he predicts that they would have reigned forever. COMMENTARY ON DANIEL 7.16.