These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
Which shall arise. For when the three beasts have finished their course, and been removed, and the one still stands in vigour,— if this one, too, is removed, then finally earthly things (shall) end, and heavenly things begin; that the indissoluble and everlasting kingdom of the saints may be brought to view, and the heavenly King manifested to all, no longer in figure, like one seen in vision, or revealed in a pillar of cloud upon the top of a mountain, but amid the powers and armies of angels, as God incarnate and man, Son of God and Son of man— coming from heaven as the world's Judge.
