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2 Machabees 3:25

For there appeared to them a horse with a terrible rider upon him, adorned with a very rich covering: and he ran fiercely and struck Heliodorus with his fore feet, and he that sat upon him seemed to have armour of gold.

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The verse in its languages

Vulgate (Clementine): Apparuit enim illis quidam equus terribilem habens sessorem, optimis operimentis adornatus : isque cum impetu Heliodoro priores calces elisit : qui autem ei sedebat, videbatur arma habere aurea.
Septuagint (Swete): ὤφθη γάρ τις ἵππος αὐτοῖς φοβερὸν ἔχων τὸν ἐπιβάτην, καὶ καλλίστῃ σαγῇ διακεκοσμημένος, φερόμενος δὲ ῥύδην ἔσεισεν τῷ Ἡλιοδώρῳ τὰς ἐνπροθεσίους ὁπλάς· ὁ δὲ ἐπικαθήμενος ἐφαίνετο χρυσῆν πανοπλίαν ἔχων.

Haydock's commentary

Horse. Fiery horses took Elias from the earth, (4 Kings ii. 11.) and the mountain where Eliseus was seemed full of such, (Ibid.[4 Kings] vi. 17.) which is not less wonderful than what we read here. See St. Ambrose (Of. i. 29.) treating of this history. (Worthington)

From Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary, 1859, in the transcription made by Todd Easton and kept online by John Paul Wohlschied at johnblood.gitlab.io/haydock.