DAN 
terminated, dnd how his kingdom was divided, "In this 
prophecy two out of the four, a Seg into which his 
z. Egypt ee 
were 
diftina kingdoms, after the ailee were {wallowed up ‘by 
the Rom The kings of Egypt and Syria are denomi+ 
nated, in refpe® to the fituation of thefe countries to Judea, 
the kinge of the fouth and the north. ‘+The king of the 
fouth,”’ it is faid, “ fhall be ftrong;’? which was verified 
when Ptolemy had annexed Cyprus, Pheenicia, Caria, and 
many iflands, and cities, and regions, to Egypt; and, more- 
he was become fo great, 
; Neverthelefs, Sclencus 
‘ ftrong above him ;” 
c u nde aoe nions. ‘In the end of 
\- ars,?? Hele a prophet, ‘*t fhail join ence ze 
ther,” v.6.) Al thefe particulars, and thofe men- 
tioned in seen 7—30, were verified by the events, which 
we cannot now recite. This prophecy concerning the king 
doms of Egypt and Syria, from the death of Alexander 2 
the time of Antiochus Epiphanes, is fo particular and cir- 
cumftantial, that it is really more perfeé&t than any hittory. 
The prophecy is equally exa&t beyond the time of Antio- 
thys, extending to remoter ages, and reaching even to the 
general refurrection. The fequel of the prophecy is fuppo ofed 
orphyry, among the ancients, 
the moderns, to have been literally accomplifhed in 
erom, and mott of 
c pe of Anti- 
rs again underftand what remains partly of the 
Antigchus, = Late of the great apoftafy of 
the latter days, or the da he Roman empire. Others 
detail the particulars. For: an pre of the eee 
prophecy aan to the Meffiah (ch. ix. 24. 27.),and an ac- 
count o xaCinefs with which it was accomplifhed, we 
thall refer eS the article Prorurcy. See alfo WEEK. 
é fhall now conclude a extended article, with the re- 
fleétions of bifhop Newto n Daniel’s prophecy of ea 
things noted in the Scape “of truth, recorded in chap. xt. 
mati -greatl ved,’’ as he is often addreifed by the angel! 
ur bleffed Saviour hath beftowed upon him (Matt. xxiv. 15.) 
the appell of « Daniel the eee 7 nd this is au- 
DAWN 
— produced fuch peed and atteftations of his-being a 
ophet, as an _ 1 cannot deny; or, if he denies, Gannot 
aifprove. The ch onde ‘that is given of him by Jofephns, 
is nothing more than firitly his due. It expreffeth the fenfe 
of the Jewihh church: and the fame mutt be the fentiments 
of every man, who will confider and coinpare the Lhd sag 
and events together. ‘This hiftorian is commending the fu» 
perior excellence of Daniel’s preditions; * for me ao wont, 
fays he, not only to foretell future things, as other prophets 
who rea might adm 
for the ven have him by God; and by thefe things 
might be convinced how much the Epicureans are miftaken, 
who deny a providence, and allow not that God regarda 
human actions, nor that all things are governed by a blefitd 
and immortal Being for the prefervation of the whole, but af- 
fert that the worid is carried on at random, without a guide 
or ruler: which, if it was without a governor, as they pre- 
tend, would have been deltroyed by the blind impulfe, an€ 
for we fhouid not fee all things fuc« 
his a de if it happened that the 
world was governed by chance.” Prideaux’s Conne&ion. 
Dupin’s Hitt. of the Canon. ‘Newtow s Differtations on the 
ee Calmet’s Did. 
EL, in Geography, a {mall ifland in the river Meufe, 
a little bbe Stockem, in the bifhopric of Lie 
Danret, Eau de, a {pring of mineral water, in the depart- 
ment of the Gard, in France, not far from Alais, the chief 
place of the department. 
Dante, Port, lies on the northern fide of Chaleur bay, 
and is a commodious harbour for v-ffels of a confiderable 
dehene. of water. It affords a cod-fifhery. and is about nine 
eagues frow Pato, ae Defpair. 
DANILOF, a aia and town of Ruffia, in the go- 
vernment of Yaroflaf, feated on a alt that falls i into the 
Volga; 28 miles E.S.E. of Yaroflaf, and 360 E.S.E. of 
Peterfburg. 
DANILOWICZE, a town of Lithuania, in the palatis 
nate of Wilnas 44 miles S. of Braflaw. \ 
ANK, in griculture, a term naa ufe of to > enify 
damps, humid, moift, or wet, as applied to grafs, & 
Dank, in Commerce, a piece of filver current in Perfia, 
and in fome parts of Arabia, weighing the fixteenth part of 
adrachm. It is alfo a weight ufed by the Arabians ‘to 
ie Resta and drugs. 
KALI, in Geography. See Dancart 
AN a {mall town of France, in the department o£ 
the Meurthe, diftri& of Sarrebourg, three miles N. of Phalf- 
bourg, remarkable for a mineral {pring, called La Bonne 
Fontaine, which i is confidered as a fure remedy againit he- 
morrhagies. 
DANNA, in Ancient Geography, a town ‘of Paleftine, 
fituated in the mountains of the tribe 0 at 
Tap nae or 
eae town of Ger 
= but at preferit 
about 1000 inha- 
bitants, 
