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Then I heard a voice saying to me, "Look before you and consider what you see."
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And I looked, and behold, a creature like a lion was aroused out of the forest, roaring; and I heard how he uttered a man's voice to the eagle, and spoke, saying,
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"Listen and I will speak to you. The Most High says to you,
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`Are you not the one that remains of the four beasts which I had made to reign in my world, so that the end of my times might come through them?
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You, the fourth that has come, have conquered all the beasts that have gone before; and you have held sway over the world with much terror, and over all the earth with grievous oppression; and for so long you have dwelt on the earth with deceit.
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