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Rh that this man's voice was as the voice of a multitude. St. John says that he cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth. Now this vision was revealed to the prophet Daniel while he was among the solitudes of the river-side, while he was beside the great river, which is Hiddekel. It was revealed to St. John while he was upon the lonely Isle of Patmos. They have both described the creature that they saw very vividly. Daniel describes him as a man "clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz. His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass." St. John describes him as a mighty angel clothed with a cloud, and with a rainbow upon his head and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet were as pillars of fire.

Now, in the attitude that they both saw him, he was ready for action. Daniel saw him with his loins girded with fine gold of Uphaz; St. John saw him stand upon the sea and upon the earth, as if ready to engage in some world-