DANIEL. 
e former vifion e prophecy 
were to pee se towatde the four winds of 
? accordingly, in the solgaee of the empire, Cal: 
eld Macedon and Gre 
Thus 
is is 
explained in the pais 23, 24, 25; The little to is genes 
rally anderftood, both by Jewifh an nd Chriftian , and ancient 
cruel perfecutor of t 
Sir Ifaac Newton pict tas ns a different Spon 3 
Nor, indeed, according to the i interpetation of odes parts of 
this propheey already given, is it likely that the lictle horn 
fhould fignify Antiochus rigiom, [2 or any fingle king ; 
but it fhould denote fome government, 
ur views are, therefore, 
direfied t n they gained footing in 
Greece, they then became a horn of of this 
horn they proceeded, and were at firft a oan but j in 
proce(s of time they overtopped the other hon 7 extending 
their arms from Greece, and overrunning the other parts of 
the goat’s dominions, perfecuting and seat the people 
of God, wherever they came. This horn, as fir Ifaac New~ 
ton juftly obferves, was to rife up in the N.W. parte of thofe 
nations, which compofed, the body of er oe and a 
thence was to extend their dominion tow gypt, Syria, 
and Judea. oneke Of the little hors, 
and that eee it fro - one 78s was 
e 
There 
power to opprefs and injure. ‘“* He 
facrifice”*~ for a few years ; but the Ro r many ages 
and they boars deftroyed the temple, ic be only fpoited 
and «Bod aes When took Jerufalem, he flew 40,000, 
nd: to the government of th e Jews, and en- 
way their place and nation. 
If. the ‘* prince of: princes’ we. underftand the 
Mc fiah, Antiochus had no fhare in the completion of the pro- 
phecy; it was effeGed by the ene By | the. malice be 
the Jews, but by the catoriy of the Rom our Savio 
was put to.death; and a! fuffered “the ounces: of the 
Roman oo and flaves. Moreover, a perfecuting 
power of Rome, whether Pagan or Chriftian, whether exer- 
cifed towards ie Jews or Mwrards ce Chriftans, by the em- 
perors or by the Popes, is ftiil the “ little ho The ty- 
ranny is the fame; but as exerted in Greece and the Eaft, it 
is fhe little horn of the he-goat, or the third empire ; as exerted 
in Italy and the Weft, it is the little horn of the 4 th beait, 
or the 4th empire. But the little hom like other Cannel 
powers, was to come toa remarkable end; ‘he fhall be bro- 
i 
anner. 
d hiftory 
a the Rom he anxie ety aad coticern fel os Daniel in 
the — of Ne events, that were likely to befal his country 
nfion of fome 
and countrymen, feem . intimate his apprehen 
more set inner and permanent calamities which would befal 
them, than any Antiochus Epiphanes would have-it in his 
power to inflict. In this inflance, and indeed i in every other 
Daniel exhibits a moft amiable temper, no lefs fice 
for the honour of religion than for the welfare of his coun- 
try 5-alke pious and public.{pirited ; and no lefs eminently 
a patriot than a prophe 
‘The memorable events which were revealed to Daniel, in the 
of the ram or he-goat, are 
prophecy may not improperly be faid to be a comment an 
ieaney of the former. This revelation was made (fee 
ch. x. 1.) in the third year of pale king of Perfia, when 
an 
ried the daughter of Cy. 
us; ** andthe fourth hall be Hcher than they all.”’- The... 
panes after Cyrus, waa Xerxes, the fon or fucc: flor of Da- 
rius. 
ory. rxes, in raifing 
his yea aeesnni every place ithe continent ; and his army 
18 ap ave amounted, including ee and. yas ae 
283 tho ae 
millions, 2 
y.. 
nated, 
