“Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw, and, behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns: and the two horns were high; but one was higher than the other, and the higher came up last.”
A two-horned ram stands by the river, representing the Medo-Persian Empire through its dual powers (Media and Persia), with the higher horn signifying Persian dominance. The ram's positioning by the river symbolizes control over strategic waterways and commerce, indicating the empire's material power and reach. This imagery establishes a pattern of animal symbolism for successive empires, familiar from Nebuchadnezzar's dream, now refined through individual symbolic creatures.
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