Revelation 13:2

The empire gathered up all the obnoxious qualities of Israel's former oppressors: craft, lust of blood, and vicious energy. Hence the combination of traits from Daniel's four beasts: general appearance that of a fierce panther, feet like a bear's (i.e., plantigrade), jaws like a lion's (of devouring strength) a Palestinian (Hosea 13:7-8) picture of a perfect beast of prey, raging and ravening, before whom the church, like Dryden's milk-white Hind, “was often forced to fly, And doom'd to death, though fated not to die”. καὶ ἔδωκεν κ. τ. λ., connecting the empire with the dragon of 12 and stamping it as Satanic (cf. Lueken, 22 f.; Weinel, 11 12), as a weird and wild messiah of the devil on earth.