And one of the ancients said to me: Weep not; behold the lion of the tribe of Juda, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof.
Glossa Ordinaria
And one of the ancients. Every prophet, by announcing the coming of Christ, consoles others. The lion hath prevailed. The lion, when he is put to flight, flees through the mountains, and with the knot which he has in his tail blots out his footprints, lest he be found: so Christ fled through the mountains, that is, his divinity lay hid from the Jews; having assumed flesh he covered his divinity, that it might not be recognised. The lion sleeps with open eyes; so Christ expired while his divinity lived.
English is machine-translated from the public-domain Latin (Glossa Ordinaria, Migne, Patrologia Latina 113-114, 1852; digital text from Corpus Corporum, mlat.uzh.ch), since no public-domain English translation exists. It is not a scholarly translation. Please report errors.