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Fighting Wild Beasts


Fighting Wild Beasts



‎Fighting wild beasts was a symbolic struggle against evil and chaos all along. Already the Assyrians had lions, leopards, and other wild cats, so that they could be wrestled down in animal fights. Whoever overcame them was proven to be a hero who could master everything evil. Wild beasts were deployed in the arena in Rome; only true heroes could fend them off.
‎Gen 31:39; Exod 23:29; Lev 26:6, 26:22; Job 5:22; Ps 8:7; 104:20; Hos 13:8; Sirach 39:30; Mark 1:13; Acts 11:6; 1 Cor 15:32; Rev 6:8
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