You saw till a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image upon its feet that were of iron and clay, and broke them to pieces.
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Hippolytus of Rome
AD 235
You saw till that a stone was cut. You saw, as it were, a stone cut without hands, and smiting the image upon its feet. For the human kingdom was decisively separated from the divine; with reference to which it is written, as it were cut. The stroke, however, smites the extremities, and in these it broke all dominion that is upon earth.
