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Micah 5:8

And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the Gentiles in the midst of many people as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: which, if it passes through, both treads down, and tears in pieces, and none can deliver.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Lion. This denotes the fortitude of these first preachers, and their success in their spiritual enterprises. (Challoner) The Jews, by leave of Assuerus, defended themselves; and the Machabees became terrible, Esther ix., and 1 Machabees iii. 4. The power of the latter was established, while the efforts of Eupator and of other Syrian persecutors for sixty years, down to Zebina, proved fruitless or destructive to themselves. (Calmet)

Richard Challoner

AD 1781
As a lion: This denotes the fortitude of these first preachers; and their success in their spiritual enterprises.

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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