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In the language of Prophesy Beasts
& kingdoms & their several parts for the analogous parts of the
kingdoms: as their heads for the governing parts, their horns
for their military powers, their wings for the armies & go
vernments ch
the common people, their flesh for the riches, their bones
for bands of soldiers, such as are Legions Squadrons & Re
giments, their the number of their heads horns or wings
of any Beast for the number of governments dominions
& particular kingdoms in that Beast, & sometimes for their
& the life of the Beast for the conti
after its dominion is taken away. And because shortlived Beasts
are put for long lived kingdoms, the days of the Beasts are put for the yeares of the kingdoms.
The four Empires are represented by Daniel in two
ons, the first of ch
metalls. In expounding this, Daniel tells us that the golden head, the
silver breast, the brazen belly & thighs, & the iron leggs
signify four successive kingdoms whereof the first is that of
Babylon. Thou o king, saith he to Nebuchadnessar, art king of kings, for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom power & strength & glory & wheresoever the children of men dwell, the [that is the kingdoms of the world] hath he given into thine hand that & hath made the ruler over them all: Thou art this head of gold. And after thee [that is, after
thy kingdom] shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee [the
Persian] & another third kingdom of brass [the Greecian] which shall beare rule over all the earth, & the fourth kingdom
[the Roman] shall be strong as iron forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces & subdueth all things. – And whereas thow sawest the feet & toes part of potters clay & part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided but there shall be in it but there shall be in it of the strength of iron – & as the toes of the feet were part of iron & part of clay so the kingdom shall be partly strong & partly broken,
The other is Daniels vision of the four Beasts, & in expounding
this Daniel tells us that the Lion, the Bear, the Leopard & the ch
successively out of the great sea, are four kingdoms w. And all interpreters agree that thech
are the same with
the ten horns answering to of the fourth beast answering to the
son of man chsucceeds the four ch
nations & shall not pass away (Dan. VII.14) answering to the stone ch
a great mountain & filled the earth & signifies a kingdom which
God shall set up & ch
kingdoms & not be left to other people but stand for ever. Dan.
II.44, 45.
The Greeks & Latines recconed the great Empires of the world
in this order; the Assyrian, the Medic, the Persian, the Grecian &
the Roman. And If with Daniel we omit the Assyrian the four
great Empires will be the Medic, the Persian, the Grecian & the
Roman. The Medic & Babylonian arose together out of the Assy
rian Empire & were contemporary, & being twins may brothers
& twins may either of them or both together be taken for the
first of the four Empires. In the vision of the Ram & He-Goat
Daniel reccons the Medic in the first place & the Persian in
the second putting the Goa Rams two horns for those two Empires.
In the vision of the Image Daniel puts the Babylonian in
the first place saying to Nebuchadnezzar; Thou art this head of gold. In the vision of the four Beasts Daniel seems
to represent both together by the first Beast with
For the wings of a Beast represent the kingdoms of which
the Beast is composed, as is manifest by the four wings
of the Leopard.
The first Beast, saith Daniel, was like a Lion [mag
nanimous & strong] & had eagles wings, stretching out its
dominion over two large kingdoms the Babylonian & the Medic. And I beheld, saith Daniel, till the wings thereof were pluckt, that is, till its dominion was taken away. And then its dominion was taken away it was not slain but only fell
down from that exalted state
as Gods, & being below it was lifted up [before] & made to stand on its [hinder] feet as a man & a mans heart was given unto it. Its life was therefore prolonged after its dominion was taken away.
The second Beast chwas like a Bear, raised it self up on one side to signify that he his
the other, the phe three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it, as if it was was eating them
that is the Sardes Babylon & Egypt Memphys the three imperial
fenced cities of the conquered kingdoms of Lydia BabylonAnd they said unto it, Arise devour much flesh, that is, devour
the flesh upon the ribs, or the riches of the three kingdoms. For
the Medes & Persians were poor people & fared hardly & were
cloathed in leather untill they conquered those three very
rich & flourishing kingdoms, And saith whereby they grew very
rich; And the fo as Daniel notes where he telling us
that the fourth king of Persia shall be far richer then all the former
& by his power through his riches he shall stirr up all against the
realm of Greece.
The third Beast was like a Leopard (nimble & fierce) & had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl. The Beast had also four heads, & dominiondominion was given to it. It was therefore the Empire of
the Greeks which after the reign of Alexander the great
& his sons, brake into four great kingdoms
of heaven (Dan. XI.4) ch
four wings & four heads of this Beast.
The fourth Beast was therefore the Empire ch
after the Greeks & subdued them. This Beast was dreadfull & terrible & strong exceedingly & had great iron teeth & nails of brass & devoured the whole earth & trode it down & brake it in pieces, & therefore it was the biggest the strongest
& the most warlike of all the Empires: & such was the
Roman. This Beast was divers from all the former kingdoms. They were
& Consuls. And it had ten horns in its head, & the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kingdoms which shall arise. This fourth beast is properly the Empire of the
Latines :T three first had their domi
which rose up next after them, but their lives were prolonged. The Lion had a mans heart given to it & is still
the nations of Me Babylonia & Media. The Bear is still
the nations of Pe Persia. The Leopard is still the na
tions of Greece Asia minor Egypt & Syria, and the
nations of the Roman Empire on this side Greece are the
proper body of the fourth Beast. This Beast trode down
the nations represented by the third Beast & stamped upon
them & reigned over them till the building of Constan
tinople & the erecting of the Constantinopolitan Empire: & then being separated from them & as the second Beast
had three ribs in his mouth to distinguish his conquests
from his proper body so the nations of the former Em
pires conquered by the Latines
the proper body of thefourth Beast. Now that Beast
upon the erecting of the Constantinopolitan empire being
separated from the nations of the other Beast which
he had
brake into ten kingdoms A.C. 408 & 409 as we shewed
above, & these kingdoms are its ten horns.
Now Daniel considered the horns & behold there came up among them another little horn before whom there were three of the first horns pluckt up by the roots & behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man & a mouth speaking great things & its look was more stout then its fellows, & it made war with the saints & prevailed against them. And one that stood by & made Daniel understand the ten horns were ten kings that should arise & another [king] should arise after them & be divers from the first [kings] & subdue three kings & speak great words against the most High & wear out the saints & think to change times & laws & that [after he had subdued the three kings]they should be given into his hand for a time times & half a time. This little horn in being numbred
amongst the other horns & called a king must be a little
kingdom: for by kin horns & kings Daniel understands king
doms. But it was of a different kind from the other ten
kingdoms having a life or soul peculiar to it self with eyes &
a mouth. By its eyes it was a Seer & by its mouth speaking
great things
Seer a Pr Prophet & a King was the Church of Rome. This
was a dominion very divers from all other dominions, & the
only dominion among the ten kingdoms to which the
phesy
A Seer
the word, & this Church claims the universal Bishopric.
With his mouth he gives laws to kings
infallibility & that his laws
which is to be a Prophet in the highest degree. He claims
a power of dispensing with Gods laws, of forgiving or retaining
sins, of remitting or relaxing the pains of Purgatory & Hell,
of granting indulgencies, of canonizing saints, of dispensing of
kingdoms by divine right, of absolving subjects from their oaths
of allegiance & of depriving all his opposers of heaven by
excommunication. This is his mouth. This is his look more
stout then his fellows. And he is the only dominion in the
world who pretends to such an universal dictatorship &
who speaks such great words against the most High.
that we shew how he subdued three of those kings or kingdoms
&
The Francks were heathens till the reign of Clodovæus their
king. He being converted to the Roman Catholic religion A.C. 496
subjected his kingdom to the Pope, & the Pope made Remigius Arch
bishop of Rhemes his deputy Bishop over France.first made
Bishopric
the Goths received from the Greek Emperor Anastasius a splendid
crown adorned with gemms besides other presents: & having
worn it one day for that victory A.C. 507, sent it seven years
after as a present to
august head then his own. This crown, as Sigebert tells us, was
afterwards called Regnum, the Reign or Kingdom. And this was
the first instance of the Popes wearing a temporal crown & gives
an occasion to reccon him hence forward amongst the horns as a temporal
king. For the Emperor Leo Isaurus A. C. 726 to put a stop to the
worship of Images ch
a meeting of Counsellours & Bishops in his Palace, & by their advice
Gregory 2d tha
Pope thereupon calling a Council at Rome confirmed the worship ofImageschLord Lord of the Alpes Cott Province
called the Alpes Cottiæ besides but his Metropolis
other places. Yet these possessions were rather Rome Rome with all Italy was now under the dominion of the Ostrogoths.Sigon. de Regno Italiæ lib. III. an. 726, 727.8
In the year 524, the Greek Emperor Iustin put
out an Edict that the Churches of the Arians should
be every where consecrated to the Catholick religion
Whereupon Theodericus the Gothick king of Italy, sent
Pope Iohn I with some of the Senators of Rome to
the Emperor to tell him that unless he restored the
Churches to their owners, he would treat the Catholicks
in Italy in the same manner. The Pope going the
next year upon this Embassy, was received very honour
ably by the Emperour & received great presents from
him, & instead of perswading the Emperour to restore
the Churches, conspired with him against restoring
them, & consecrated as many of them as he could to
the use of the Catholicks: & upon his retourn to Italy
was imprisoned for it by Theodericus his king, & wrote from
prison to the bishops of Italy to arm themselves with the
sword of the spirit against the Arian religion for extir
pating it, & to consecrate all the churches of the Arians
(that is of the Goths) wherever they could find them, for
the use of the Catholicks, as he had done at Constantinople.
He was therefore confederate with the Greek Emperor
against his king.
Iustinian succeeded Iustin, & in the year 532 designing
to make war upon the Vandals sent to Pope Iohn II great
presents with
to be approved by his Holiness, & represented therein that he
had always a desire to keep the unity of the Apostolic seat
& therefore made hast to subject & unite all the Priests
of the whole eastern territory to the seat of his Holiness
– which was the Head of all the Churches. This he did
to engage all those of the Church of Rome in his party
during the wars which he was going to make against
those of another religion.
When he had conquered the Vandals & was begin
ning a war upon the Goths, Theodahatus
Theodericus sent Pope Agapetus upon an embassy to Iusti
nian for putting a
unwillingly,
against the mind of the Emperor & Empress, deposed Anthi
mius Patriarch of Constantinople, & substituted Mennas into
that bishopric. Whence it is manifest that the Emperor
for keeping the Church of Rome in his interest against
the Goths still suffered the Bishop of Rome to act in the
east as universal bishop.
The next year A.C. 536 Bellisarius having taken
Sicily from the
Regium, the people in all the villages out of hatred to the
Goths immeda
Naples & the Neopolitans were inclined to surrender, but the
city being garrisoned by Goths held out a seige of 20 days.
Thence he marched to Rome, the Romans by the perswasion
their city so soon as he came near it. And this was done
in December A.C. 536, the garrison of the Goths withdrawing
when they found themselves betrayed. Sammicum, Calabria, Apulia
Beneventum & all Italy southward of Rome revolted also
to Belisarius: & so did Tuscia, Narnia, Spoletum, Perusia
& some other places. The next year the Goths besieged
Rome with an army of an hundred & fifty thousand men.
Bellisarius had but a small army
mans he held out the siege a whole year & 9 days & ruined
the army of the Goths so that the Goths out of desperation
were forced to raise the siege. Then Dacius Bishop of
Millain with the chief men of that city went to
sarius
Millain & all Liguria were ready to revolt. And accordingly
a force
Liguria revolted, & put the Goths upon besieging that City.
And at the same time the garrison of the Goths in Ariminum
suspecting the fidelity of the citizens retired & left that
city to the forces of Belisarius: ch
sieging that city also. ✝ They took Millain s
their perfidy & sold for slaves
the siege of Ariminum, & retire to Ravenna their capital city
where they were besieged th
surrender, ), & their king with his Queen were sent prisoners to Constantinople.
✝ They took Millain the next winter, levelled it even th
grownd, slew all the male citizens for revolting & gave to the
number of three hundred thousand for revolting, & gave the
weomen to their allies the Burgundians for servants; but
were forced to raise the siege & of Ariminum & retire to
Ravenna their metropolis capital city, where they were be
sieged
with his Queen were sent prisoners to Constantinople. Thus
the Greek Bishop of Church of Rome by conspiring with
the Greek Emperor against the Goths on account of re
ligion, & causing the Latines to revolt to the Greeks, gave such
a turn to this war as enabled Bellisarius with a small force
assisted by the revolting Latines to ruin the Gothick Kingdom.
And this was the first of
the little horn. This Kingdom reigned over the Pope &
therefore was to be removed to make way for his rise.
After this Belisarius being recalled, the Goths took up arms
again & revived the war for a time & in this contention Rome was
almost dispeopled & laid in ruins, & the bishop of Rome lost his authority
in the east till the Emperor Phocas restored it, & the Lombards A.C.
568 invading Italy, took from him the Alpes Cottiæ & restored them
not till the reign of Pope Iohn VI A.C. 704.
The Emperor Leo Isaurus A.C. 726 to put a stop to the wor
ship of Images, which had been long overspreading the east, called a
meeting of Councellours & Bishops in his palace, & by their advice
put out an edict against that worship, & wrote to Pope Gregory the
2d that a general Council might be
thereupon calling a Council at Rome, confirmed the worship of Thus the Church of Rome by conspiring
with the Greek Emperor against the Goths & inclining the
people of their communion to revolt from them
a turn to this war as enabled Belisarius with a small force
assisted by the revolting Romans to ruin the Gothic Kingdom.
The Francks also seized part of the Gothic territories.
And now the Pope having by the assistance of his
allies subdued a kingdom ch
his rise, deserved by this conquest & the acquisition of the
universal bishopric over the Greek Churches to weare
the Crown which had been lately conveyed to him from
the Emperor by the King of the Franks, they help
ing him as well to the conquest as to the c
Yet the Pope being carried prisoner to Rome
Constantinople A.C. 545 & there imprisoned by Iustinian
& the City of Rome being by these wars almost emptied
of inhabitants & its buildings ruined; the Greek bishops
A.C. 551 began to disregard his authority till the Emperor
Phocas restored it.
The Emperor Leo Isaurus A.C. 726, to put a stop
to the worship of Images ch
the east called a meeting of Councellours & Bishops in his
palace & by their advice put out an edict against that
worship, & wrote to Pope Gregory ed that a general
Council might be called. But the Pope thereupon
calling a Council at Rome confirmed the worship of
subjects in Italy from their obedience & forbade them to pay
tribute to him & thereby got the c
& caused a great part of the Exarchate or kingdom of Ravenna
to revolt & kill Paul the Exarch. And the Lombards also being
Zealous for the worship of Images & pretending to favour the
cause of the Pope invaded the cities of the Exarchate. Hitherto
Rome had been a Dukedome in the hands of the Emperor &
governed by a Duke appointed by the Exarch or deputy King
of Ravenna: henceforward it as well as his Episcopal seat.
the Lombards deposed Childeric a sloathfull & useless king
of France & the last of the race of Merovæus, & absolving
his subjects from their oath of allegiance gave the kingdom
to Pipin king of Austrasia & Suevia, for ever,
to strengthen himself by making a new & potent friend. Thus by conjunction of these two kingdoms did one of
the ten horns fall before the little horn. And while the Pope
had a temporal Metropolis & his temporal power in France
now much more then formerly to weare the temporal crown
sent him by Clodovæus.
succeeded, & before the end of the year the Lombards took
Ravenna & put an end to the Exarchate. And this is the
second of the three kingdoms that fell
the Greek Emperor then with the Lombards, went the next year
to their king to perswade him to return the Exarchate to the
Emperor, but this not succeeding he went into France &
perswaded Pipin to take the Exarchate & Pentapolis from the
Lombards & give it t
came with an army into Italy & made Aistulphus king of
the Lombards promise the surrender. But the next year
Aistulphus on the contrary, to revenge himself on the Pope
besieged the city of Rome. Whereupon Pope Stephen sent letters
to Pipin wherein he told him that if he came not speedily against
the Lombards, pro datâ sibi potentia alienandum fore a regno Dei et vita æternaas he had done Pipin therefore
the Greek Emperor.devoted
of Rome came speedily with an army into Italy, raised the siege,
besieged the Lombards in Papia & forced them to surrender the
Exarchate & region of Pentapolis to the Pope for a perpetual
possession. And now Ravenna & the rest of the Exarchate were
surrendered some few cities excepted, & the keys sent to Rome &
laid upon the Confession of t
the high Altar, in signum veri perpetui
their Epistles & Bulls to note the years of the Greek Emperors
as they had hitherto done.
sent to Charles the great the son of Pipin to come to his assistance,
and accordingly Charles entred Italy with an army, invaded the
Lombards, overthrew their kingdome, became master of their coun
tries, & restored to what they had taken from
him but also the rest of the Exarchate which they had pro
mised Pipin to restore to the Pope but had hitherto deteined,
& also gave him some cities of the Lombards
were done in the years 773 & 774. And this is the third
kingdom which fell before the little horn.
of the kingdom of the Lombards, but some of his
jects being desirous to shake off his government & recover
their ancient rights liberty raised a great commotion
against him, accused him of certain crimes & made him
fly to the king of France. Whereupon Charles the great
went again with an army to Rome with an armed force
to resettle him, & upon a day appointed presided in a
Council of Ital
ties. But when the Popes adversaries expected to be heard
the Council declared that he who was the supreme Iudge
of all men was above being judged by any other then
himself. And thereupon the Pope made a solemn decla
ration of his innocence, & in recompence for the service
& honour done him created Charles Emperor of the Ro
mans & Charles at his coronation took this oath of Fealty
to the Pope: In nomine Christi spondeo atq
December A. C. 800.
Thus the Pope & the King of Austrasia
one another & the Pope rose up among the ten kings by
rooting up three of them before him. The kingdom of France
he gave to his friend;
himself; & the kingdom of Lombardy he divided between
himself & his friend.
well as a Bishop, he weares the crowns of those three king
doms upon his head in form of a triple crown & carries the
keys of the cities of two of the
being exalted above k
above all humane judicature & the supreme Iudge of all ten kin
other horns with a peculiar soul & a look more stout
then his fellows. And having rooted up
favour of the worship of Images, he has changed times
& laws, & set up the abomination in the western Empire.
His kingdom they call Peter's patrimony because given by
Charles the great to t
the keys of the cities of his kingdom they call t
keys, they being offered to t
or Altar. But some turning history into an Alle
gory tell us that the keys represent the power of binding
& loosing & are the keys of heaven & that the three
crowns relate to heaven earth & hell as if the
crowned king of those three regions. I need not stay to These are whimsies
confute such trifling& I ch
fute. them. ee
After Daniel had described the rise & reign of the
fourth Beast & of his horns, he proceeds to describe their fall
by a vision of God sitting in judgment in the Temple in
the most holy place in his throne above the Ark between
the Cherubims, Daniel standing before the Temple & seing
this vision as it were through the flames of the Altar. I beheld, saith he, till the thrones were set & the Ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow & the hair of his head like pure wooll. His throne [seen through the fire] was like the fiery flames, & his wheels [the wheels of his throne
as in the s of Ezekiel] a burning fire. A fiery s r tream
[the flame of the Altar] issued & came forth from before him & thousand thousands [represented by the Che
rubims] ministred unto him, & ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him [& from his face the heaven & earth
fled away.] The judgment was set & the books were opened & Daniel I beheld till the [fourth] Beast was slain & his body given to the burning flames [upon the Altar.] And one like the son of man [Michael the great Prince who
standeth for the children of Daniel's people, the word
of God & king of kings with a two edged sword,] came in the clouds of heaven to the ancient of days & [at the
sounding of the seventh Trumpet] there was given him dominion & glory & a kingdom that all people & nations & languages should serve him.
1 In the language of Prophesy Daniel tells us Beasts are put for nations – – – – for e
years of the kingdoms.
2. The four Monarchies are represented three of Daniels by three
the Image, that of the four Beasts & that of the Ram & He goat besides the Prophesy of
reign of the two s of the Ram comprehends all the times of the reign of
the two first monarchies & the Gr reign of the s of the Goat comprehends
all the time of e
3. In expounding the
the silver breast the brazen belly & thighs & e
kingdoms whereof the first is that of Babylon. Thou o king, saith he to Nebuchad
nezzar, art king of Kings, for y ehath [that is, the kingdoms of
the world] hath he given into thine hand & hath made the ruler over them all: Thou art this head of gold. And after thee [that is, after thy
kingdom] shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee [the Persian] & another third kingdom of brass [the Grecian] w [the Romans] chshall be strong as iron, for as much as iron breaketh in pieces & subdueth all things. – And whereas thou sawest the feet & toes part of potters clay & part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided, but there shall be in it of the strength of iron – & as the toes were of the feet were partly strong part of iron & part of clay so the kingdom shall be partly strong & partly that ch
some of them fallen infirm & weak.
4 In expounding his own vision of the four Beasts Daniel tells us that the
Lion the Bear the Leopard & the dreadfull terrible & exceedingly strong
ten horned Beast, chfour kingdoms w. ch
are ethstatue Image:
the ten horns of e
leggs, & the everlasting kingdome of the son of man ch
& is over all nations & shall not pass away (Dan. 7
stone che
a great mountain, chchch
God shall set up & chconsume & break in pieces
& not be left to other people but stand for ever. Dan.
5 In rRam had two horns & the two horns were high & the higher but one was higher then the other & the higher came up last & that the Ram having two horns are the kings of Media & Persia, that is, the horn ch
kingdom of Media & ch
is the kingdom of Persia. This kingdom of Persia is the second Monarchy &
the kingdom of Media is contemporary to the first monarchy, & therefore
the Ram in the reig
two first monarchies. The kingdoms of the Babylonia & Media arose
out Monarchy Monarchy
may be either of them or both together chMonarchy univ Empire
accounted the Assyrian Monarchy
the third, the Grecian the fourth & the Roman the fift, & according to this
recconing, if with Daniel we omit the Assyrian, the four
be the Medic, Persian, Grecian & Roman. Daniel therefore puts the
of e
of the Image he puts the Babylonian Empire in the first place saying to
Nebuchadnezzar Thou art this head of gold. In the vision of the Ram
& Goat he omitts the Empire of the Babylon & puts the Empire of
the Medes in the first place saying the Ram w (one of thchare the kings of Media & Persia.
In the vision of the four Beasts he puts them both together
in the first place, e
Lyon wherewith it was lifted up from the earth & made to stand like Eagles wings. For the wings of a
on the feet as a man.
Beast T signify the kingdoms of ch
as is manifest by comparing the four wings of the Leopard th
the four horns of the He Goat, both ch
the Greek Empire e
Heaven. T
The Greeks & Latines recconed the great Empires of the world in this order:
the Assyrian, Medic, Persian, Grecian & Roman. If with Daniel we
the four great Empires will be the Medic, Persian Grecian & Roman. The Medic &
Babylonian rose together out of the Assyrian Empire & were contemporary & so M Empire. In the vision of the Ram & He Goat Daniel reccons reccons the Medic in the first
place & the Persian in the second, putting the Goats two horns for those two empires.
In the vision of the & th
saying to Nebuchadnezzar, Thou art this head of G gold. In the vision of the four
Beasts DanielLion first Beast with eagles
wings. For the wings of a Beast ch
posed as is manifest by the four wings of the Leopard. The first Beast, saith Daniel was like a Lion (magnanimous & strong) & had eagles wi g ngs, streatching out its
power over two large kingdoms the M Babylonian & the Medic. And to repre I beheld
saith Daniel, till the wings thereof were pluckt, that is, till its dominion was taken
away, & it wa when its dominion was
state in ch& it was lifted up & made to stand on its [hinder] feet as a man & a mans heart was given unto it.
For if the power by cha a power forreign to
greater power then his own, &a e
power of the Romans while they reignedwas
one of the Goats horns & one of eking time of ee
horns he would have had two horns one
then the little horn chwhereas the Goat whereas this little horn grows the greatest of all the Goats horns & is his only horn
So then the Goat in the reign of his last horn was great by a forreign power & & G Hething Empir thing
he is the Leopard reigning by his own power: In the reign of his last horn he
is the Leopard reigning by another's power & s that the
life of the Leopard reigning is prolonged after the his proper dominion is taken away, that
is all the time of the fourth Empire untill a stone cut out of without hands
falls upon the feet of the Image & breaks in pieces at once all the four parts
of the Image. And there of this is at the time of
the end & in the last end of the indignation Dan. VIII.17, 19, that is, it reaches to
the end of all Daniels visions & to the last end of the Iewish captivity.
horn of the Goat is described , great up
& southward, & in height, great above all the former & therefore can signify nothing less then the mighty power of the
horns
Greeks under the admi
in the world that of the Greeks in the reign
the parts of prophesy are not adapted to the parts of history in due proportion the
interpretation is frivolous & trifling.]
Some
It may
As a Beast may continue after its dominion is so may a horn. For
the Rams two s continued upon his head till the Goat brake them both & yet / For e
ing thatboth his hornse
had but one Monarch yet the Ram had two horns till he was vanquished by
the Goat. And in like manner we are to
four horns till the end of the
that the horns may make upon one another. Now For And when
in the latter time
to e& the latter time
of their kingdom is the latter time of the kingdom of the Goat Leopard with fourthat in the end of the third Monarchy heads & four wings. The kingdom of the four horns is not perpetual but that this king
comes to an end & when it is expiring the king of fierce countenance stands
upbegins bec stands up in the end of th
of the fourth. But these things will be best understood by comparing them
with the prophesy of the scripture of truth ch
For there Daniel describes the breaking of the Greek monarchy into
four great kingdoms & tells the actions of two to the four winds of heaven
& tells the actions of the kings of the north & south ch
the four, & ing
Epiphanes, the year in ch
in the Temple & in all Iudæa, & there Daniel
RomansAnd after him arms shall stand up. For in this very
year the Romans assisted by the king of Pergamus
of Macedon chis
thereof may be recconed to put an end to e
to the Roman. ‡