And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah the Root of David, has prevailed to open the scroll, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
6. Now, as our Lord Jesus Christ, who is also God, was prophesied of under the figure of a lion,