21 And the rough goat 7 the king of + Greece a, E276: cot ? {and the grear horn that # berween his eyes is the rt © : þ By the firſt 15 meant an Holy Angel by the other s ON OR king b, | - By 7 Chriſt, Palmoni, a Numberer Or Revealer of Sect crs,a wonderful ns 4 od, Fr Of Favan, or Ton, or Fon, which Property 13 fra ths Iſt, which
-- 6, Of him the Angel asks this Secret Concerning the Calamity ; was inhabired by Favan, Gen. 15, 2. mit ſpread over all Greecs, an
long it would laft, for Danze!'s ſake and his People. ! al} tpake Sreeb,and the Sea was thence cx:)2d the /mrizn Sen. Tec more.
tor the Lord Chrift is the Teacher of his People,the Wiſdom of God, | in Bochart, b #, & Alexander the Great ; catledt the rear trom his
+4 hath all this in his Power by Office, and as he ftands wy FON _ great Power, Succcts an Polteftons : and the ſri Kirg, 7,0 in ia,
»is Church, and for them- 7 The Lord knows his ſuffering People arc ani by his Exploits and Victories over the Perf. Monarchy ; for &fe much concerned about the time of their Sufferings, becauſe ther E 15 bon tnere were other Kings of Greece before him,hnt none of them in the appointed time for it, and the Lord doth reps eal - as REG Senſe aforeſaid. : |
here, unto his conſidering ONES, Ver 5. and praying Saints,ch.g, They 22 Now that being broken c, whereas foor ff004 up
5 ot in their Agonies, how long O Lord and it's an Addition to _ 4 : c oh ; cry ont ine NN ewerk bow Jong; PAL +46 a6 HA for ir d, four kingdoms ſhali ſtand up out of the nation,
tinue his tyrannical Vexations againſt the People of but not in his Power e.
both tine ſnAtuary and the hoſt to be troden under
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| con . - 1} Py —_ —_ pres of God! This is the reading down of the San- | © 7.e, Broken by Death, which breaks the Horn of all Pride and
* 3.» ond the Hoſt. earthly Glory. 4 z. e, Four Kingdoms of the Nation of the Greeks, 4 guns And he & {aid unto me, Unto two thouſand and |* That is, not in his Majeſty and Magnificence, but inferiour to him. T
#- days 1; then ſhall the ſanQtuary be| , 23 And in the latter time of their kingdom f, when three hundred Þ Cays 7; J the tranſgreſſors - are come to the full -, a king of fierce + Heh. ac
+ cleanſed. -mtl_es / _ | _— Angel unnamed ; why did he ſpeak to Denizl, and not | countenance þ, and underſtanding dark ſentences i, ſhall Go" : e
to Rog that asked him ? Becauſe Dartel, and the Church to which ſtand uP. | — . & herelated, and was to communicate the Anſwer, was moſt concerned | f z, e, When they were come to the Height, and beginning to de- jn it, andthe Angel that asked the Queſtion did it upon their Account. cline : It notes that time when the Romans began to ſeize part of the * ]This ſeems to many learned Men a very ditfcult Place, 7. &. where Grectan Kingdom, by Emilius Probus, who ſubdued Perjeus King of Ma- B to hegin, and where to end theſe Days. 1. Some explain it thus, a cedonia, and thereby brought all Greece under the Roman Juriſdiction, = Year contains 365 Days; then 2300 make f1x Years 2 Months and 18 | which was 166 Years betore Chrift was born, that very Year Antio- & Days, reckoning in 2 Days of the Leap-years gained, from the ſuper- | chus ſet up the Avomination of Deſolation. g When the Fews were grown
numerary Hours and Minutes. Now this time begins at Antiochus his to an Excels of Wickednefs, which called tor Puniſhment, then God | firſt Entrance into Fud?a, when he profaned the Priefthood, and takes | ſuffered Anticchus to perizcute them. þ Such was he ; the word is tran- in alſo his ſecond coming in, when he interditted their Worſhip, ſet | ſlated impudent, inhumane,for the Countenance is the Diſcoverer of the # up an 1dol in the Temple, and interrupted the daily Sacrifice. 2. O- | Mind and Manners oftentimes. 5 Full ofall Subtilty ; another Fulian, thers count the 2300 Days from the Peoples Revolt, which was pro- | to lay Snares, and fetch over the inconftant and backſliding Fews, cured by Mznelans,which began in the Year 141 of the Reign of the Se- | ſuch an one all Hiſtories declare this Arriochus to be,
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\, W__ 7-ucilz, 1 Mac. 1. but Antiochus did not aft his Impieties till the next 24 And hjs power ſhall be mighty, but not by his own
t WF |} Year atter, vir. 142, in the 6:5 Month, and the 6h Day; from | oye. 1. 11d he ſhall deſtroy wonderfully, and ſhall pro-
- WW : whence if we reckon to the 254th Day of the gth Month of the Year Has ad Qi 4 Gt vor the ok. he qt
' MW. © 145, there will fall out preciſely fix Years, three Months, eighteen | *P&T, ana practue, and na y 1gnty, and LBC LHeb
”" WW © Day: 3. Others reckon alittle otherwiſe, from the Beginning of An- | | holy people 1, _— _ : FT riockes his Profanations to his Death : From 143 to 148, taking in both t Not by any Heroick Deeds, or truly Regal Qualities, but by _ 4 : ”s WW +> Years to the Number. For though Fudas Maccabeus recovered the Ci- making uſe of the Fewiſh Fations, and allo through the Livine Per- ©, - ors. : WW ©t;, and cleanſed the Temple in 148, yet Anriochus was not ded till | miſhon and C ommiſfion given him to puniſh a backſliding degenerate Gle7. B7o = 5 43, till when the Work was not finiſhed. 4. Others make it to begin | Nation ; laſtly, by the Help of Eumenes and Artalus, by whoſe Means
wr | Zin the Year of the Seleucides 145, and to end anzo 151, two Years af- | and Help he got up to this Height, who being Kings, ſufpeRed the
ps &ter 4ntiochus's Death,for the Abomination of Deſolation was ſet up in | Roman, Power, and raiſed him to be a kind of Check to them, 1 He
Wl the Month Chiſleu, t Mac. 1. 17. and not till two Years after A4n1z0- | ſhall by Force, Craft and Cruelty, deſtroy many of God's People,
rs Death was Nicanor overthrown with all his Army. Thus Facob from the higheſt to the meaneſt Ranks of them.