Septuagint: Daniel Th: Daniel Th Chapter 7

This is Daniel 7 in Greek (Septuagint), the apocalyptic vision of the four beasts — a foundational text of Jewish and Christian prophetic literature. Daniel recounts a night vision in which four fearsome creatures rise from a churning sea, each representing a successive world empire: a winged lion, a bear with ribs in its mouth, a four-headed leopard, and a terrifying iron-toothed fourth beast with ten horns. The fourth beast is the central focus: a "little horn" rises among the ten, uproots three others, and speaks blasphemous words against the Most High. The vision then pivots to a divine throne-room scene where the Ancient of Days passes judgment, destroys the fourth beast, and grants eternal dominion to "one like a son of man" coming on the clouds — a figure who receives universal kingship from God. An angelic interpreter explains that the four beasts are four kingdoms that will arise and fall, after which the "holy ones of the Most High" will inherit an everlasting kingdom. The text is distinctively shaped by cryptic numerology (three and a half times) and its vision of a persecuting ruler who attempts to change "times and law," imagery widely interpreted as referring to the Seleucid king Antiochus IV — though the passage became enormously influential in later messianic and eschatological traditions.

Septuagint: Daniel Th: Daniel Th Chapter 7

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