Theodoret of Cyrus, on Dan 7:11

“I beheld because of the voice of the great words which that horn spoke: and I saw that the beast was slain, and the body thereof was destroyed, and given to the fire to be burnt:”

“Because of the madness of that beast, he says that it was judged, and the fourth kingdom was destroyed, "and the body of the beast was given over for the fire to consume." We ought to take note that he did not simply say "the beast was handed over" but "the body of the beast" was handed over for the fire to consume. Since he portrays every kingdom through a beast, and in every kingdom some are pupils of godliness and others are servants of wickedness (the former being commonly called "spiritual," the latter "carnal," in accordance with the usage of the divine Scripture), he rightly said that the beast was not handed over to be burned but the body of the beast, that is, the cruder sorts of people and those who are fleshly and those who do not think spiritually at all.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.