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SL245, described in the Sotheby catalogue as c. 300,000 words on 975 pp., was bought at the Sotheby sale by Gabriel Wells for £48 and sold to Yahuda on 1 Aug. 1936 for the sale price plus 15%. On 24 May 1949, Yahuda wrote to the London dealer Heinrich Eisemann, 'As to lot 245 the new arrangement and replacement of the pages resulted in 1,530 pages instead of 975 pages as many pages had to be taken out from other lots. But for this manuscript I have a customer who wants to pay a much higher price than $3,800 suggested by you.' If this was true, the prospective buyer's desire to part with his or her cash presumably waned. There must subsequently have been further reordering of the manuscript as the present Yahuda Ms. 7 amounts to nowhere near 1,530 pp.
Sect. I.
Of the Prophetick Language
Sect II.
Of the kingdoms represented in Daniel by the four Beasts.
& of the ten horns of the fourth Beast.
Sect. III.
Of the eleventh horn of Daniels fourth Beast.
Sect. IV
Of the power of the eleventh horn of Daniels fourth Beast
to change times & laws.
Sect. V.
Of the kingdoms represented by the Ram & He-Goat.
Sect. VII
Of the last Horn of the He-Goat, & of the King who doth
according to his will & honours Mahuzzims, & regards not
the God of his fathers nor the desire of weomen.
Sect VIII.
Of the Mahuzzims honoured by the King who doth according to his
will.
Sect. VI
Of the Prophesy of the Scripture of truth.
Sect. IX
Of the relation ch
of Moses & to the worship in the Temple.
Sect. X
Of the relation ch
the subject of the Prophesy.
Sect. I
Of the Prophetick Language.
Sect. II.
Of the kingdoms represented in Daniel by the four Beasts
& of the ten horns of the fourth Beast.
Sect. III
Of the eleventh horn of Daniels fourth Beast.
Sect. V.
Of the Kingdoms represented by the Ram & He-Goat.
Sect. VI.
Of the last horn of the He Goat & of the King who doth according
to his will & honours Mahuzzims & regards not the God of his fathers
nor the desire of weomen.
Sect VII
Of the Mahuzzims honoured by the king who doth according
to his will.
Sect IV
Of the power of the eleventh
& laws.
Let Sect. II proceed after this manner.
Now according – – – – – – belonged to the body of the fourth Beast.
The fourth Beast as he is represented in the Apocalyps was con
teined in the body of the Daragon for a time, being the waters which
the Dragon cast out of his mouth after the Woman
division of the Roman Empire between the sons of Constanti
great. Then the earth opened her mouth & swallowed up the waters by
the victory of Constantius over Magnentius, the earth being put for the
nations of
& e
Beast was wounded to death with a sword in his sixt head, & then he
is called the Beast
of the Empire which was between the brothers Valentinian & Valens, &
rose out of the ch
& Theodosius, & at the last division ch
Theodosius,
great authority.
The Dragon & Beast agree in the number of their heads & horns,
& these heads
mencing at the opening of the seven seals. Six of them are crowned
the Dragons head because they reigned before the Dragon gave the Beast his thr throne. The seventh is also crowned on the Dragons head because he
reigned in the east after the opening of that seventh seal Empir Roman Empire
which was & is not he is the eigth & of the seven, because a collateral
part of the seventh. The nations ch
were
from him; & they so long
the head of the Beast because they received no kingdom before the Beast ch
received power as kings the same hour with him. Now they received power
as kings in the following manner.
Dacia was a large country – – – – from their first number.
Let Set
The second & third Monarchies represented by the Bear & Leopard
are again represented – – – – – – – in his last horn but not by his own power.
The nations
Sect. II.
Of the Prophetick Language
Sect II
Of the Kingdoms represented
ten horns of the fourth Beast.
Now according – – – throne in Pergamus Apoc. 11.13 & XII.9. he belonged to the body of the third
Dacia was a large country – – – – from their first number.
Sect III.
Of the eleventh horn of Daniels fourth Beast.
Sect IV
Of the kingdoms represented by the Ram & He Goat
Sect V
Of the last horn of the He-Goat & of the King who doth
according to his will & honours Mahuzzims & regards not the God of
his fathers nor the desire of weomen.
Sect VI.
Of the Mahuzzims honoured by the King who doth
according to his will.
Sect VII
Of the power of the
saints & change times & laws & cast down the truth to the grownd & destroy the holy people
& stand up against the Prince of Princes.
Now according – – – – – belonged to the body of the third.
The fourth Beast, as he is represented in the Apocalyps, lies
hidch
Dragon cast out of his mouth after the Woman. This was at the divi
sion of the Empire between the sons of Constantine the great. Then the
Earth opened her mouth & swallowed up the waters by the victory of
Constantius over Magnentius, the Earth being B
according to the language of the Iews & the waters & Sea for the Isles of
the Sea. By this victory the Beast was wounded to death
& chch
Valens, & rose out of the sea at the next division ch
& Theodosius. & at the death of Theodosius, the Dragon by a final division gives him And hence the six first heads
of the Beast are not crowned but his crowns are on his horns but this crow horns
because he reigned only in his horns. And hence
upon the Dragon & the horns only upon the Beast because the to signify that
the Dragon reigned only in the heads & the Beast only in the horns ch
last head, chhead & of the seven because a collateral part of
the seventh.
Now the horns arose in the following manner.
Dacia was a large country – – – from their first number.
If all the nations ch
parts the
nations beyond Euphrates alluded
lyps
Dacia was a large country – – – from their first number.
ttttt
Their successive heads reigned successively before the division was
Beast received the Dragons throne & therefore they are were crowned only on e
Dragon. The seve The seventh is also crowned on the Dragon. And the Beast
is the eighth of the seven becaus a collateral one.
The seven heads of the Dragon
commencing with the opening of the seven seals. Six of them are crowned or
the Dragons head because they reigned before the Dragon gave the Beast his e
east after the opening of the seventh seal. And the Beast ch
is the eighth & of the seven because a collateral part of the seventh. The
nations ch
Dragon before the Beast became divided from him & therefore they are
on the Dragons head, but without crowns because they received no kingdom
before the
Beast, that is, presently after the Dragon gave the Beast his thr western throne
whence they are Now these ten horns arose in
the following manner.
Dacia was a large country – – – –
At the end of Sect III add after the words [inscription on the Reverse for
many years] add.
Now this little horn with eyes & a mouth whose whose look was stouter then its fellows &
laws, & into whose hand they were given for a time time times & half a time
is represented again in the Apocalyps by a woman iting upon the ten
horned Beast, that is, reigning over him & of or state of & great honour(with riches) a time
times & half a time from the face of the Dragon m
the Church of the Dragon. because
The woman was at first the Church catholick of Christ, & continued in this state
till shee & the separated from the communion of the 144000 who kept the command
ments of God & had the testimony of Iesus & thence are called the two witnesses. These ththe all the rest & the Dragon ch
Christ should destroy the man of sin with the breath of his mouth & the brightness
of his coming.
The seven golden candlesticks (ch
Apocalyps Christ appears in form of the High Priest dressing the
candlesticks, ch
by seven epistles ch
The fou
the Roman
& brake in pieces & stamped answers such
Antiochus Epiphanes,
615
And by these conquests it became greater & more terrible then any of the three
former Beasts. This Empire was continued in its greatness till the reign of Theodosi
the great & then brake into ten kingdoms represented by its te the ten horns of this
Beast, & continued in a broken form till the a
came that they possessed the kingdom.
I beheld, saith Daniel till the Beast was slain & his body destroyed & given to th
burning flames. As for
– – – – And therefore at the breaking of the Greek empire into four kingdoms in
of the Greeks, we include not
they belonged to the bodies of the two first Beasts. Nor do we reccon the Greek empire
seated at Constantinople among the horns of the fourth Beast because it belonged
to the body of the third.
Chap IV Of the feet of the Image composed of iron & clay.
Of the
composed of iron & clay.
Dacia was a large country bounded on the south by the Danube, on the east by
– remained quiet within the seats granted them. And these are the
kingdoms of ch
by parcells of iron & clay intermixed ch
Chap. V
Of the ten kingdoms represented by the ten horns
of the fourth Beast.
Now by the warrs above described the western empire of the Romans was broke
into the following ten kingdoms
1 The kingdom of the Vandals & Alans in Spain & Afric.
2 The kingdom of the Suevians in Spain
3 The kingdom of the Visigoths
– they are still called the ten kings from their first number.
Chap. VI
Of the eleventh horn of Daniels fourth Beast.
Chap. VII.
Of the power of Daniels fourth Beast to
times & laws.
Chap. VIII.
Of the prophesy of the Ram & He-Goat.
Chap. IX.
Of the Prophesy of the seventy weeks
Chap. X
Of the prophesy of the scripture of truth.
pag. 11. lin. 3
Pag. 7. lin. 8
pag. 6. lin 47 Hippocrates eth from Æsculapius & the 19th from Hercules
pag. 21. lin. 24) &
who was Consul
war. Dionysius Halicarnæssæus, Livy & others recconned 244 years from the founding of the city
to the regifuge. And the years seem to have been collected from the number of
Chap. VII.
The Prophesy of the Wo-trumpets
explained.
Sect. 1 The Prophesy of the Wo
The first Wo-Trumpet.
Sect 2
The second Wo-Trumpet
The two Witnesses & third Wo
Sect 3
The last Times
Explain eeee
in e
Sect 4
The second Temple.
Explain the meaning of e
it afterwards, the reigning of ee
of the two witnesses among them 1260 days &c And
Sect 6
Of e
their worshippers.
The Ro. cath. Ch. & Counc. eeh
thority is to worship them. The Image e
of R. C. Idolaters. Their decreeing the Roman Catholick Church of e
Roman Empire after it became Idolatrous to be Holy Catholick Church
was an em idolatrous decree & to
worshipping the image of the Beast
The first four d the standing of the Church humility humility & humility affli purity prosperity pride corrup
tion & pride & prosperityduring during
till the rise of Idolatry ch
of the first four Trd the rise The Wo-Tru contein plagueslast time of the end & by Iohn the last time [or time of Antichrist]conteins The first Wo The
Prophesy
Chap. VIII The affairs of the Church
or
The first & second Temple & their
Candlesticks explained.
sect I.
The first Temple & seven Candlesticks. &
& eBeast
Sect. III.
The second Temple & two Candlesticks
Sect III
The scripture of truth & last times & reign of Antichrist.
Chap. 8 7. The Prophesy of the three Woes explained
Sect 1 The first Wo
Sect 2 The second Wo
Sect 3 The last times & third Wo.
Chap 8 The Prophesy of the the
Sect. 1. The first Temple epistles successive
respect successive times. eeth persecution.
of Licinius & Constantine. the
the Wildernes. times more pious times under Iulian th
7 To Laodicea who being luk in ee
warm & in the end of this period is spewed out of Christs mouth. By the flight of the woman into e
the first Temple ceases in eee
Sect 2. The second Temple & two Candlesticks therein.
Sect 3. The Synagogue of Satan religion of the Temple
Sect 4 The worship of the Beast & Image in the synagogue of Satan.
Chap.
Of the visions in the Apocalyps.
The scene of these visions
Sect. I
Of the time in ch
Sect. 2
Of the scene of the visions
The scene of the visions is the Temple. Iohn saw a door opened in heaven ch
door of the temple, & heard a voice like the sound of a trumpet saying c
will shew thee the things chbehold a throne set in heaven upon the Ark
between the Cherubims & one sat on the throne [the Ancient of days] And he that sat was to
look upon like a Iaspar & a Sardine stone [the colour of the people inhabiting Iudea]
And round about the throne [before] were 24 seats, & upon the seats 24 Elders sitting cloathed in
white raiment, & they had on their heads crowns of gold, they being the 24 Princes of the Priests
in their chambers in the priests court. And out of the throne proceeded lightnings & thundring
& voices, the flames of the fire on the altar & the
such to Iohn who stood at the eastern gate of the Temple, & saw the throne beyond the
fire. And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal, the brazen sea
filled with water clear as crystall. And in the midst of the throne & in the circle
about the throne, that is before & behind the throne as it were in the middst of it &
on either side of the throne were four Beasts full of eyes before & behind to represent the
multitude of people in the four sides of the great court. In the wilderness where the people
encamped about the tabernacle, the tribes of Iudah Issachar & Zebulum pitched on the east side
under the standard of Iudah chten tribes of Ruben Simeon & Gad pitched on
the south side of the Tabernacle under the standard of Reuben ch
of Ephraim Manasseh & Benjamin pitched on the west side under the standard of Ephraim ch
the standard of Dan ch
had each of them six wings & they were full of eys within to represent multitudes of people
And they rest not day & night [at morning & evening service] (the ancient of days.] And when those beasts
give glory & honour & thanks to him that sat on the throne who liveth for ever & ever
the ancient of days: the four & twenty elders go into the temple & fall down before him
that sat on the throne, & worship him that liveth for ever & ever & cast their crowns
before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy o Lord to receive glory & power & honour
& power: for thou hast created all things & for thy pleasure they are & were created.
Vpon the first day of the seventh month
lamps
High Priests habit amidst the seven golden candlesticks with the se dressing the seven
lamps, ch
called up to the morning
ficeth
the throne, alluding to the book of the law laid up in the right side of the Ark. He saw And in allusion to the morning sacrifice he saw also a lamb at the foot
also a lamb
of the altar as it had been slain. And he came & took the book out of the
that sat upon the throne. This was in allusion to the High Priests taking the book of the
law from the right side of the Ark annually upon the tenth day of the seventh month
to read it to the people. And when the Lamb had opened the seven seales
gels receive seven trumpets & sound them at at the great sacrifices upon the seven
days of the feast of They also And at the same sacrifices seven thunders
uttered their voices ch
out seven ch
At the opening of the first four seals the four beasts call him to come & see which
stood in the four sides of the great court call him to come & see, the first calls
him eastward the second westward the third southward & the fourth northward
And at these four calls Iohn saw four men on horsback successively ch
dynasties of Roman emperors, the first an eastern dynasty charisen in the east from the east
& Domitian, the second arising from the west Trajan, Adrian, & Antoninus who were
spaniards, the third from the south Severus, Caracalla, Heligabalus, Alexander
Severus,
north Decius, Gallienus Valerian, Gallienus, Claudius, A
rode upon a white horse, the second on a red horse because of the laudable manners
of Vespasian & Titus; the second on a red horse because of the great wars made by
Trajan; the third on a black horse because of the funerals of many senators &
nobles put to death by Severus: & the fourth on a pale horse because of the
of Decius with his army, & very distracted state of the empire under the 30 tyrants during the
reign of his successors.
And when the Lamb had opened the fift seal Iohn saw under the altar the souls of them that
were slain for the word of God & for the testimony cht in the persecution
of Diocletian ch
years. And they cried with a loud voice saying: How long o Lord dost thou holy & true dost thou
not
robes were given them unto every one of them, & it was said unto them that they
should rest yet for a little season untill their fellow servants also & their brethren that
should be killed as they were (& chiefly in the great tribulation) should be killed or fulfilled.
And when he had opened the sixt seale there was a great earthquake & the sun
became black as sackcloth of hair & the Moon became as blood, & the starrs of heaven fell
unto the earth even as a figtree shaketh
mighty wind; And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together, & every
were moved out of their places. And the kings of the earth & the great men & the rich men
& the chief captains & the mighty men & every bond man & every freeman hid themselves
on us & hide
the great day of his wrath is come & who shall be able to stand. Here is a description of the
end of a world polytick, the heathen Roman Empire. It began to fall at the end of Dioclesi
ans persecution when Constantine the great turned Christian & conquered the persecutors
Maxentius & Maximinus & it continued falling till Iulian the apostate revived it for a
year & eight months. Then it continued falling again till the
musch
Emperors Valentinian & Valens A.C. 378. The the Lamb opened the seventh seal. And
hence forward the book continues open.
The seven churches of Asia are represented by the seven golden candlesticks & in
the temple (Apoc. 1.20) & by their lamps illuminate the temple or church catholick.
And these lamps are their teachers called the Angels of their churches. To these Iohn is
commanded to write seven epistles for instructing the seven churches.
The visions of the four horsmen
have no relation to the affairs of the Church. She remained hitherto in her purity as
she had been taught by the Apostles & their disciples. But after the times of those
horsmen when she began to cold & grow cold &
approaching apostasy, these epistles & her lamps which had burned well hitherto
began to want dressing, they are dressed by these seven epistles.
Eusebius tells us that in the times s
And to this state of things the epistle to the church of Ephesus relates. T Vnto the Angel
of the church of
hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks. I know thy works & thy
labour & thy patience & how thou canst not beare them ch
tried them ch
born & had patience & for my namesake hast laboured & hast not fainted. Neverthe
less I have a few things against the because thou hast left thy first love. Remem
ber therefore from whence thou art fallen & repent & do thy first works or else
I will come unto thee quickly & will remove thy candlestick out of his place
except thou repent. But this thou hast that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans
which I also hate. By the Nicolaitans he means the Encratites or Continents ch
at length in monkery.
And unto the church Angel of the Church in Smyrna write these things of
saith he that was dead the first & the last who was dead & is alive
tribulation & poverty, but thou art rich: & I know the blasphemy of them that
say they are rich Iews & are not but are the synagogue of Satan. Fear none of
those things chr
devil & Satan, the heath
& ye shall have tribulation ten days, [that is ten years in the persecution of Dioclesian]
Be thou faithful unto death, & I will give the a crown of life.
And unto the Angel of the Church of Thyatira Pergamus write – These things saith he
which hath the sharp sword with two edges
where Satan's seat is [the seat of the Dragon now cast down] & thou hast held
name & hast not denied my faith even in those days [of Dioclesian's persecution]
wherein Antipas was my faithful martyr st you where
satan dwelleth dwelleth. But I have a few things against thee because thou hast
there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam [the fals prophet] who taught Balac [the
king] to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed
to Idols & to commit fornication. So
tans [above mentioned.]
And unto the Angel of the church of
things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Iezabel which calleth her
self a prophetess to teach & to seduce my servants to commit fornication & to eat
things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication, & she [since the great persecution,] & she repented not.
repented not
And unto the Angel of the Church in Sardis write – I know thy works that
thou hast a name
remain & ch
And to the Angel in the church of
that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth & no man
shutteth, & shutteth & no man openeth: I know thy works: behold I have set before the an
open door [into the Roman government] & no man can shut it: for thous hast a
little strength, & hast kept my word, & hast not denyed my name [in the reign of the emperor.] Behold I will make them of Satan the synagogue of
Satan, who say they are Iews & are n [i.e. Christians] & are not but doe lye: behold
I will make them come to come & worship before thy feet [in the next reign] & to know that I
have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word of my patience [under Iulian] I also
will keep thee chshall shall come upon all [the rest of the Ro
man]
And unto the Angel of the chu
works that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would thou wer
because thou art lukewarm & neither cold not hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth
By these seven epistles Christ admonished the seven Churches of Asia &
those in their communion
periods of time, the first in the reign of Dioclesian & Maximianus when they
leftch
years; the third in the reign of Constantine the great when those that held the
doctrine of Balaam taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the children of
Israel; the fourth in the reign of the sons of Constantine over the empire divided
between them, when the woman Iezabel
nion with the seven churches: the fift in the reign of Constantius over the whole
Empire when the church made a great outwardly but was faint
& dead. The sixt in the reign of Iulian the apostate when thechurch was were
persecuted anew. And the seventh in the reign of Valens
hour of temptation by fals miracles & saint worship arrived & overspread the Christi
an world
spewed them out of his mouth.
Now according to this language the Lion,
with ten horns in Daniels prophesy of ech
successively out of the great sea by
four great kingdoms which arose King
wars. The Lion had eagles wings to denote the Provinces of Babylon
& Assyria of which the first kingdom was composed. By these wings
man. Then arose the second Beast like to a Beare, the kingdome of
the Persians & Medes. And it raised up it self on one side, the Medes
rising up first. And it had three ribs in the mouth of it between
the teeth of it, the kingdoms of Sardes Babylon & Egypt ch
conquered by it but did not belong to its body. And it devoured much
flesh, the riches of those three kingdoms. Then arose the third
Beast like a Leopard with four heads & four wings to signify that
it should be divided into four kingdoms. This was the Greek Em
pire chhis Alexander the great & his young sons Alexander & Hercules, &
then brake into the four kingdoms of Cassander, Lysimachus,
Antigonus & Ptol the governours of provinces putting crowns upon
the governours of provinces Cassander Lysimachus Antigonus &
Ptolomy putting crowns upon their
Macedon Greece & Epire, Lysimachus over Thrace & Antigonus
over Syria & the lesser Asia, & Ptolomy over Egypt Libya & Ethiopia.
And the fourth Beast was the Roman Empire ch
Kingdom of Macedon
& that of Egypt
reduced into a monarchical form & at length brake into ten
kingdoms represented by the ten horns of this Beast & by the ten
toes of the statue of four metals. And this Empire broken into many
kingdoms continued till the Ancient of days sat in a throne like flam
fiery flame & the an judgment was set & the books were opened,
& the son of Man came thunto the & was brought
before the ancient of days & received dominion over all nations &
judgment was given to the saints of the most High &
kingdom. And therefore the reign of this Beast is not yet at an end.
I beheld, saith Daniel, till the Beast was slain & his body destroyed & given to the burning flame s. As concerning the rest of the Beasts they had their dominion taken away: yet their lives were prolonged for a season & a time. And therefore all the four Beasts are still
alive tho the dominion of the fourth
Chaldea & Assyria are still the first Beast. Those of
& Persia are still the second Beast. And Those of Egypt Syria & Asia
minor, Macedon Greece & Thrace are still the third. And those of
Europe on this side Greece are still the fourth. [But the dominion of
the three first is taken away.] Seing therefore that the body of the
are to look for the dominion of all the horns of this Beast amongst
these nations
river Euphrates & for the dominion of all the ten horns eleven horns of the
fourth Beast among the nations on this side Greece. At the breaking of the
Greek Empire into four kingdoms Seleucus became King of Babylon
Chaldea Media & persia, but heking ch
Beasts.
The same thing is represented by the statue of four metals.
the head whereof was of fine gold & represented the kingdom of
Nebuchadnezzar Dan. & the feet & ten same thing
with the ten horns of the fourth
mountain thch
& brake the whole to pieces, & became a great mountain & filled
the earth is the kingdom of the saints which reigned over all nations.
And the second & third kingdoms represented by the B
& He Goat Bear The Ram, saith Daniel, is the Ki having two horns is the kings, (that is,
the Kingdoms]of Media & Persia, not two persons but And the rough Goat is the King of Greece, that is the Kingdom. And the great horn between his eyes is the first king, not the first monarch but the first Monarchy
of the Greeks ch
& his two Now that [monarchy being broken; whereas four [horns] stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation [of the Greeks] but not in his
[the first horns] power. The four horns are therefore ch
first great kingdom of the Greeks; that ch
der the great who began his reign
nabonass: 441.And out of one of the four horns came forth a little horn, a , the kingdom of Pergamus, chwaxed exceeding great towards the south & towards the East & towards the pleasant land of Iudea, & therefore it arose in the north-west & conquer
ed towards the south & towards the east, & such was the kingdom
of Pergamus. It arose out of the kingdom of Thrace
of Phil& twenty years & left it to
his brothers sons Eumenes & Attalus the last of ch
Callinicus king of Syria almost all Af
thereupon was saluted king by his army. And his power shall be mighty but not by his own power: ch
be mighty after the dominion of the third beast should be taken away. by the power of the fourth Beast That dominion was to be taken away
by the Romans & then this
not by his own but by the power ch
Beast chwas inherited by the Romans by the last will their king
by right of inheritance, & this kingdom by their power grew mighty toward the south pleasant land east
southward & eastward which composed the body of the third Beast
& particularly Armenia Syria &Palestine [And when by these con And it
quests he was grown mighty, by him the daily sacrifice was taken away & the place of his sanctuary was cast down: vizt in the wars
under the Ro conduct of the Romans against Iudea in the when Nero &
Vespatian were Emperors.]grew mighty towards the pleasant land, & it waxed great even to the host of heaven, & it cast down some of the Host & of the stars to the grownd & stamped upon them, conquering I the kingdom of Iudea
& thenceforward trampling upon its princes. Yea he magnified himself even to the Prince of the Host, the Messiah the King of the
Iews whom he put to death. And by him the daily sacrifice was taken away & the place of his sanctuary was cast down, vizt in
the wars chPresidents of the Greeks s the Romans Nero & Vespatian were Emperors.
The kingdoms represented by the second & third Beast are
again described by Daniel in his last Prophesy, in the following firstDarius the Mede Cyrus over Babylon, the year that he conquered Persia,) in the following
manner. Behold there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia
[Cyrus, Cambyses, & Darius Hystaspes] & the fourth [Xerxes] shall be far richer then they all: & by his strength & through his riches he shall stir up all against the Realm of Greece. And a mighty king [Alexander the great] shall stand up that shall rule with great dominion & do according to his will. And when he shall stand up his kingdom shall be broken & shall be divided towards the four winds of heaven; & not to his posterity nor according to his dominion w.thch
Alexander the great having conquered all the Persian Empire
& some part of India, died at Babylon a month before the summer
solstice in the year of Nabonassar 425; & his capitains gave the monar
in his understanding – – – – For Ptolomy reigned
over Egypt Libya & Ethiopia, Antigonus over Syria & the
lesser Asia, Lysimachus in Thrace & Cassander over Ma
cedon Greece & Epire. Seleucus reigned over Babylonia
Assyria & all Persia beyond Tigris y
posed the bodies of the two first Beasts & therefore are not
recconed among the horns of the thirds.
Cassander being afraid of the power of Antigonus,
combined with Lysimachus Ptolomy & Seleucus against him
and while Lysimachus invaded – – – – & have intelligence
with them that forsake the holy covenant.
In the same year that Antiochus by the command
of the Romans retired out of Egypt & set up the worship
of the Greeks in Iudæa, the Romans conquered the kingdom
of Macedon the fundamental kingdom of the Empire of the
Greeks & reduced it into a Roman Province & thereby began
to put an end to the reign of Daniels third Beast. And this
is thus exprest by Daniel. And after him Arms [the Romans,
or the little horn under the power of the Romans] shall stand up. As after the king Dan XI.8, so
may here signify after him. Arms are every where in
this Prophesy of Daniel put for the military power of a
kingdom, & they stand up when they conquer & grow
powerfull. Hitherto Daniel described the actions of the
kings of the north & south, that is, of the kings of Egypt
Syria & Egypt: but upon the conquest of Macedon by a
new power
kingdoms & began to describe the actions of the) new conqueror. Thepower
as being now greater the greatesty
Now this new power
Beast acting not in its own power but in that of the Romans.
All Daniels Beasts are still alive & the Goat still reigns
his last horn, but not by his own power. This horn assisted the . Antiochus Hierax claimed
Romans in their war against Antiochus magnus
power obteined almost all Asia minor to the mountain Taurus
from his brother Seleucus Callinices all his possessions in
Asia minor & beat him battel & was soon after beaten by
Eumenes governour of Pergamus who thereby became thereupon seized almost all Asia minor as
Lord of
far as to e
assumed the name of King. This was about
Nabonassar 507, 508 & 509. And thus the little horn began
to rise up. But Attalus about 20 years after lost his
new acquisitions to Achæus the genera Lieutenant of Antiochus the great
years after, by the last will & testament of Attalus
– – – – For th
days of Christ, Matth. XXIV.15. By the Arms ch
you may understand the kingdom of Pergamus inherited by
the Romans & grown mighty by their power. For all Daniels
Beasts are still alive, & the Goat still reigns in his last
horn but not by his own power.
he should ould
over him & by consequence over the third Beast after the power dominion
of that Beast should
power of the fourth Beast ch
till the day of Iudgment.
This Leopa Goat in the days of his last horn denotes the same
kingdom that old serpent called Satan in the Apocalyps, that Satan who
called e
hath his Throne in Pergamus. Apoc. 2.13 & 12.9.
After the destruction of Ierusalem & the Temple – – – – because it is yet for a time appointed.
Hitherto
but not by his own power. But now by the building of C
nople & endowing it with a senate & like privileges with Rome
Greeks & Latines begins a new scene of things cha King [the
Empire of the Greeks] doth according to his will & [by setting his own
laws above the laws of God] shall exalts & magnifys himself above every God, & . ✝ Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers nor the [but place religion in abstinence from weomen] – – And in his estate hi them alloverspread the Roman Empire with Monks & Nunns] And in his estate
he shall honour Mahuzzims, [strong protectors, the souls of the dead] saints, even with a God whom his fathers knew not shall he honour
them [in their temples] with gold & silver & with pretious stones & pleasant
things. ch
Roman Empire was
saints were by them sent from Egypt & Syria into all the Empire to be
lodged in Churches for doing of Miracles & thereby amusing the people
to bring them over to the miracle working party of those who
feigned these miracles. Monkery graduall by
degrees during all the reign of Constantine the great & his sons,
& in the
began to be set on foot in Phœnicia.
✝ Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers nor the [lawful] desire of weomen [in matrimony,] nor any God, but shall magnify himself above all. And in his seat he shall honour Mahuzzims, [strong
tors, the souls of the dead;] even w [in their Temples] thwith Gold & Silver & with . All ch
of the Empire with Monks & Nunns & unmarried Clergy & to the who
placed
& other superstitions chbrought in introduced in the fourth & six centuries.And at the time of the end the king of the South [or empire of the Saracens] shall push at him, & the king of the north [or epi empire
of the Turks] shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots & with horsmen & with many ships; & he shall enter into the countries [of the Greeks] & shall overflow & pass over He shall enter also into the glorious land, & many countries shall be overthrown: but these shall escape out of his hand even Edom & Moab & the chief of the children of Ammon
[vizt to whom his Caravans pay tribute.] He shall stre c tch forth his hadnd also upon the countries & the land of Egypt shall not escape; but he shall have power over the treasures of gold & silver, & over all the . All
these nations compose the Empire of the Turks & therefore this
Empire is the king of the north. They compose also the body
of the He-Goat; & therefore the Goat still reigns in his last
horn but not by his own power.
The kingdoms represented by the second & third Beast, or the Bear & Leopard, are again described by Daniel in &c – – –
Thus The dissembling converts were a little help to the saints
for a time, but being ver
Christianity. And then those of understanding came into new troubles & fell again to purge them from the dissemblers till the time of the end. And these are in the Apocalyps called the remnant of the Womans seed who kept the commandments of God & had e
In the first ages of the Christian religion &c – – – –
abstein from meats I Tim IV.1, 2, 3.
his horn kingdom, by the revoltAnd an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression & it cast down the truth to the ground & it practised & prospered. This transgression is in the next
words called the ch
maketh desolate, & in Matt. 24.15 the abomination of desolation spoken
of by Daniel
temple of Iupiter Olympius built by the Emperor Hadrian in the place of the
temple of the Iews, & to the revolt of the Iews under Barchocab
occasioned thereby & to the desolation of the Iudea ch
thereupon, all the Iews being thence forward banished Iudæa upon
pain of death. And I Then I heard, saith Daniel one saint speaking
& another saint said to him that
concerning the daily sacrifice & the transgression of desolation to
give both the Sanctuary & the Host to be troden underfoot? And he
said unto me Vnto two thousand & three hundred days;
are years & these years may be recconed either from the destruction
of the Temple under Vespatian, or from the building of the Temple
Iupiter Olympius, or from the desolation of Iudea
made by the banishing of
but small The last horn In the mean time the last horn of the Goat con
tinued mighty under the Romans un – – – dominion of a Roman family & at
present is
And one of them [a little – –
– eastward & southward.
And in the latter time of their kingdom a king [or new king when the transgressors a come to the full, a king [or new kingdshall stand up a kingof fierce countenance & understanding dark sentences shall stand up. And his power shall be mighty but not by his own power. This king
the Goat, called the little horn ch
four horns & waxed exceeding great.
came to the full in the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes. – – –
– – – – the power of the fourth Beast. And such was the
kingdom of Pergamus. It waxed This It waxed exceeding great towards the south & towards the east & towards the , & therefore rose in
the north-western part of the Greek Empire.And so did &
conquered southward & eastward. And so did the kingdom
of Pergamus. This kingdom arose out of the kingdom of
Thrace & Phrygia
chus king of Thrace
little at its first rise. Philatærus kept the castel of Pergamus
20 years & then s
lus, the last of ch
king of Syria almost all Asia on this side mount Taurus &
thereupon was saluted king by th his Army. And having lost part
the Romans took from Antiochus the great all Asia on this
side mount Taurus. Afterward it assisted the Romans in
conquering the kingdom of Macedon. Then it came under e
power of the Romans by its last kin the Legacy of its last
king Attalus the second
the Senate of Rome was king of Pergamus by right of inheri
– – – when Nero & Vespatian were Emperors
816, 817, & 818
the reign of Constantine the great
the last horn of the Goat. There the Dragon is the third
Beast of Daniel & t his He-Goat, & the Beast
ten horns, is his fourth Beast. While they were united they have
common heads & horns, but after they became divided, the D
This prophesy begins th
and adds that the fourth Xerxes sh oul alld be far richer then they all & by his strength through his riches shoulalld stir up all against the realm of Greece. And a mighty king [Alexander the great] shall stand up that shall rule w [for Cassander king of Macedon, Seleucus king th
of Syria & Ba
&] even for others besides those. After thee
kings of Egypt & Syria by the names of the kings of the north & south
until the taking of conquest of the kingdom of Macedon by the Romans which was chAnd then he passes passes he passes
from the affairs of the Greeks to those of the Romans chAnd after him arms shal stand up: An that is after Antiochus the Romans shall stand
As the king
him. These arms stood up
& Egypt. & then they polluted the sanctuary of strength & took away the daily sacrifice in the days of
Nero & placed the abomination w in the days of ch
Adrian. And they that understand amongst the people [the Apostles &
other Christian teachers] shall instruct many, yet they shall fall [in [the heathen by the sword & by flame, by captivity & by spoile many days. Now when they shall fall they shall be ho p lpen with a little help, but many [pretending to come over to them from the heathens] shall cleave to them with flatteries. And some of them of understanding shall fall to try them & to purge & to make white them white even to the time of the end; because it is yet for a time appointed.
In the prophesy of the Ram & He goat its said that after one of the four
horns, came forth a little horn ch
is here repeated, the kingdom of Macedon being one of the four & the
little horn the Rom ch