: DANIEL 
mer kingdoms. TMis kingdom was to ‘* fill the 
earth,’ to become univerfal, agd to * ftand for ever.”’ 
A revelation, fimilar to that made unto Nebuchadnezzar, 
in the fecond year of his reign, concerning the four great 
empires of the world, was communicated to Daniel with 
. me different pen ment in the firtl year of Set 
out 48 years gaia) Seals vii) S'o Daniel the 
reprefentation hi not of a great image, but 
n the fhape of great w ad beaits.. whe firtt kingdom is re- 
) that ¢ was like a lion, and had 
“ hole 
and noble& kingdom. The eagle’s wings denote {wil tenefs 
and rapidity ; and the conquetts of > were very ra- 
—pid; that kingdom having been advanced to its height 
within a few years by a fingle perfon, under the conduct 
fen Chandicr alan ed, as eae che kingdoms 
of rag iy Lydia, and Egypt, which were conquered 
by it, but were not pr roperly parts and members of its 
body. "They might be called ribs, as the conqueft of them 
much ftrengthened the Perfian emp: ire; and they might be 
faid to ms pea the teeth of the bear, as they were much 
grinde oppreifed by the Perfiaus. The “third king- 
dom is meas v. 6.) by “ a bealt like a leopard, &c.”? 
ich aptl 
Pp ingdem of the Macedonians ; 
the {wiftnefs of the leopard denoting the rapidity of Alex- 
ander’s conqu its being emblematic, accor 
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fond 
cording to Groti 
and Saahea: 
rincipal point of like- 
nefs feems to pe in the mee and impetuolity of the 
one and the other. The fourth kingdom is reprefented 
y at adh beaft, dreadful and terrible, &c.” 
a h can pourtray no other aa the Romanempire. The 
10 horns of this bealt Hel ager 10 kingdoms, which are 
var ionfly enumerated by erent writers. Mach - 
(Hitt. Flor. ee home under the follov 
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a 
c 
o, 
firt upon the Danube, and afterwards in Italy. 
(Works, B. iii.), reckons up the ro kingdoms in the year 
456, the year alter Rome was facked by Genferic, king of 
the Vandals, in che following manner: viz. Britons, Saxons 
in Britain, a Burguadians in France, Wifigoths i in the 
fo uth of Fra 
g n 
in re sine le the riba aa aeaty by the ape ark 
and afterw eee any fae Gre 
the apie: Bi op L Rey nn a 
Pp. 524. ) = the allowing lit, adding 
to each the time av its - z, Eiuns a - 35 
Oltrogoths 377, Wifgorhs 378, = io. Vandals 407, 
Suevi and Alani 407, Burgundians 407, Heru'i and Vhu- 
ringii te oe 476, and Eoogobard, who bea to reign 
S 
and the govern 
in Hungary, A.D. 526, and were feated in the northern parts 
of Germ nany, about the year 483. Sir Ifaac Newton (Obf, 
oa Daniel, chap ; €numerates them aes the kingdom 
of the Vandais and clans in Spain and Africa, that of the 
Suevians in Spain, that of the Wiligoths, that of the Alans 
in Gallia, that of the Burgundians,-that of the Frarks, 
, that of the Huns, that of the Lom- 
bards, and that of "Revenia: The number of thefe king- 
doms was nct conftantly 10, i 
times fewer; buts as fir Itaac N w 
was their number afterwards, iad are ftill ne the * tea 
kings,”" from their firlt numbe 
or kingdom, another little hern 
was to {pring up among them (v. which Grotius, Col- 
ins, and {ome others have Samoted | to be Antiochus Ept. 
ae without fufficient reafon ; but we are more proba tly 
ecm for it in the weftern Roman alae and it is 
oo concet ived to denote the pope of Rome, whofe 
orn or temporal priuce, wes eltabifhed ir 
the eighth century. All the kingdoms above deferibed 
will be fucceeded by the kingdom of the Mrffiah. (v. 9, 
Daniel had another vifion in the third year ee the reign 
of Belfhazzar, or about 553 years B.C. (ch. viti. tr.) This 
vifion was th ram and nes have two 
beafts denoting two empires. The Babylonian is omitted, 
i te early terminated. ‘The ram with two 
Medo-Perfian empire, founded oy Cyrus. 
Works, B. iti.), conjectures, that the Plebrew word for 
ram, and that for Perlia, i.e. 99 and E99, both ana 
ing from the fame root, ee both implying fomewhat o 
itrength, the one is not improperly made the type of the 
other: efides, it wes cal with the king of Pertiato wear 
aram’s head, made of gold, and green a precious tones, 
inftead of a diadem; for thus us Marcellinus cs 
ree : 
ferve, tha horns, one thes the ee 
Jower, are fall t feen on the pillars at Perfepolis. The 
exploits of the ram are recapitulated in verfe 4; and it is 
well known that, under Cyrus, the Perfians extended their 
conquefts weitward, as far as the AZ zean fea, and the boun- 
daries of Afia ; northward, they fubdued the Armenians, 
Cappadocians, ‘and various other nations; fouthward, they 
conquered Egypt. Under Darius they fubdued India 
e next animal that commands our notice in this vifion 
is - tea (v. 5.)3 which is properly the type or emblem 
of the Grecian or Macedo nian empire, becaule the Mace- 
8 
he aes empire byt recians; for, a8 the 
Perfians, in the reigns of Darius Hy hafpis and Xerxes, had 
d reat armies into Greece, the Gree 
cians, in their turn, ene their armsinto Alia, and the he- 
goat invaded the ram that had invaded him. The empire 
of the goat, as defcribed in the Su ada language, was in 
its full frength, in confequence of the rapid and extenfive 
conquefts of Alexander, when he died a Piby len: but, in 
the {pace of ~~ 15 years, the royal family became extindt, 
rs oF” previnces aflumed the titles of kings. 
y the defeat and death of Antigonus in the battle of Iffus, 
thefe were reduced to ander, Lyfimachus, 
e 
them into four kingdoms. 
and d 
, Thele are oon notable hora which came up in the room 
of 
