[| That is, 28, Hitherto is the end of the matteru, As for me ol Sag * Daniel, * my copitations much troubled me, and my | m 54 countenance changed in me x : but 1 kept the matter in & 10. 8, My hearr. + Chald, % 7, :. Of the Viſion, and the Angel's Interpretation. x 1, Becauſe brightneſſes it became him iv to be, a3 a holy wiſe Man ought to be in that caſe. Gr, form, 2. By this Impreion made upon him Goll would have It laid up in his Heart to be drawn out occationally, and delivered to his People, and that all theſe wonderful Diſcoveries from God might engage him more earneſtly in rayer for the Church of God, as he doth, ch. g.
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1 FN rhethird year oi the reign of king Belſhazzar y, a vilion appeared unto me, eve unto me Daniel,
after that which appeared unto me ar. the firſt z.
» This follows then in time aiter the former : Thoſe things that were meet for the Chaidees to know, are recorded by Danzel in that Tongue; but now he writes in Zebrew, which lafts to the end of the Book, becaule theſe things relate to the Church of Chriſt, Few and Gen- zilc,to the end of the World, 7 In the other Vition he ſpeaks of all the jour Monarchies; here only of the three firſt, this Vifion being both as a Part and a Comment upon the firft.
2 And I faw in a viſion (and it came to paſs when I + Heb. in ſaw, that I was at Shuſhan 7 the palace, which # + in the Z;2m ite province of Elam a) and I ſaw in a viſion, and I was by Fon. the river of Ulai b.
4 In kis Mind and! Thoughts, not bodily ; and ſo he was alſo by the River Ul:i- tome think he Was loc-iiy there, being ſent thither in Embally by C» «us ; but Dante! was nuw at B by/on, when it was be- ſiexed and taken, Dan. 5. he was only there in Spirit, as the Prophet Exekie! faith he was in Ferufal-m, Ezel., 8,1, Now Daniel! had this Vion at 3uj2, becaule their Deliverance was to coine by Cyrus the Perfian, or Elamite, for £44m 15 Perfiz, This City was Called Suſan, Ze a Til, for the Pleaſantnets of It ; tuch ames they glve ailo their Cities in Chinz, 0 A Piver whote Waters were {0 wholeſoine that they were carricd t2r, and the King arank 0: no other.
3 Then [ lifred up mine eyes, and ſaw, and behold. there ftvod upon the 1:ver a ram which had two horns c, and the two horns were hgh d: bur one was higher tnan Þ the other e, and the hizner came up laſt,
c By which is meant the Kingdom of the Medes and Perſizns, as it is in V7. 20, Where It 15 10 interpreted, Beiore, it was called a Bear, and here a Am, both 21 ing the tame thing, though by different Ex- preſhions: A Ram, YLecaule he 15 a fighting Creature, puſhing. d 5. e, They were very powerful. e 7. e Ihe Medzan, though it came up laſt, yer was hjzheſt at firſt; bat afterward the Ferſtin was much ſuperiour In Magrhcence and Fame, which was verified in Cyrus ; who had an Incredible Heay, even 50 Millions of Talents. Sec Curtins and Strabo.
4 I ftw the ram puſhing weſtward f\ and northward Z, and ſouthward þ : fo that no beaſts might ſtand be- tore him 7, neither was there any that could deliver out of EE x es LECT
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