all that protect them by I9. his ow found. t Beir having Dn diſhoy Mans, an Difgrace ontent WOM; an Ot in (af Dacrilegii ame to | 36-3 dXCesS u Uays he n battl: 4 This1 NS Subje4 Friends fr pared nor Tile thac T lory of t Father's R and Treac Vl Doers ;
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t Antiorhus Magnus ſhall march on irreſiſtably and vioriouſly, be- :
.* and takins fenced Cities, and ſtrong Holds, as Siden, Sdmd-
ie 4 _— the Power of Egypt withſcand him. |
2.6 But he that cometh againſt him 7, ſhall do ac-
= cording to his own will, and non? ſhall ſtand before © him: and he ſhall ſtand in the || + glorious land m7 PS which by. his hand ſhal] be conſumed. | — © the 1; e. Antio:hus ſhall do after kis own ill, as he liſteth — 0r- Controll. 1 7. &- Fudea, The word mav be rendred pt: ajunt, defire-
mn. able, noble, Dan. 8. 9. Antiochus held all Fudea,the Fews not oppoling, and with the Provition and Produtt of it maintained his Army 3 Foſe-
hy, And to win them to his {ide from the Eg yprlans, he gavet -_ Liberties as to their Religion, 1ncouraging their Sacrifices, and caling
:- Taxes. For ſo Foſephus tranſlates n59 by THA<1sV, 10 conſummate _—— and Os conſume, as ſome render it ; and. thus the
9 likewiſe. ; : a ry He ſhall alſo ſet his face to enter with the ſtrength |, of his whole kingdom #, and || upright ones with him o - "thus ſhall he do, and he ſhall give him the daughter of - women p + corrupting her : bur ſhe ſhall not ſtand 07 bts
- ſide q, neither be for him. 1 He ſhall uſe all the Force and Fraud he can to maſter Egypt, and 19 ;ngroſs it to himſelf, becauſe Prolomy was then young, and not able to \ match him. 0 7. &. Many of the Religious Fews joined with him, Numb. 23. 10. called Rzghreows in oppoſition to the reft of his Army, which was compoſed of Idolators, and a profane Rabble of rude Hea- thens, þ 7.0. Antiochus ſhall give Cleopatra his Daughter which was | young, to young Prolony ; called the Daughter of Women for her Beau- mu ty and rare Parts, which ſhe afterwards diſcovered, and gave in Dowry (T5 with her Coeloſyria, Phenice and Fudea, dividing the Tribute and Re- venues between them, (as Saul gave Michal to David to be a Snare to her Hysband, to betray him, and deftroy him.) q But ſhe ſtuck to her Husband's Intereſt, and not her Father's.
x 13 After this ſhall he turn his face unto the Ifles, and , ſhall take many r- but a prince + for his own behalf 2 ſhall cauſe + the reproach offered by him to ceaſe s; without his own reproach he ſhall cauſe z# to turn upon him,
r 7, e. The Ifles and Sea-Coaſts of that part of the Medzterranean at and Aigemn Sea, as Cyprus, Rhodes, &c. allo 4ſia the lels, with the i Grecian Coaſts, for the #ebrews call Countries bordering on the Sea, els Iſtes ; particularly Greece and 1:aly. The meaning is, that this Antiochus ne craftily deſiſted for a time from his Enterprize againſt Feypt for fear 0, of the Romans z; and difſembling with them both, preſumed he ſhould outwit them all, and therefore perſwaded as many of the Greeks as he could, to take part with them againſtthe Romans, ſlighting and reviling and them. s 7. e, A brave Roman Embaſſador, and Commanders fent by the Were Roman Senate, viz. Atilius, and chiefly Scipio, beat Antiochus at his own the Weapons of Power and Policy, and turned the Reproach upon his own ion Head ; for they fell upon him, becauſe Prolomy required Help of them, the who was beſieged by Antiochus: they raiſed the Siege, and recovered 10g all that he had gotten from them ; for the Komans were dexterous in 'mel, protecting their Alzes,and in retorting Indignitics and Afferonts offer'd
art) them by Incroachers and Oppreflors.
is Then he ſhall rurn his face towards the fort of his own land # - but he ſhall ſtumble and fall, and not be Nth found.
t Being beaten in Battle by Scipio, with 30000 Romans, he himſelf even having 70000; and rejeRing the Counſel of Zannibal, he yielded up
th 1 vn diſhonourable Terms to deliver his Ships and Elephants to the Ro- 0 bis mMa1s, and all the Places he bad taken from them, which turned to his
Diſgrace; Then he turned his Face homeward, and - was made to be fought ontent with the narrow Limits of the remoteft Corner of his King-
dom ; and tho' he ſported himſelf with his Retirement, yet was he ot in ſafety ſo, but was ſlain, when he ſought to enrich himſelf by the
dacrilegious Spoils of the Temple. Thus Antiochus called Magnus ame to nothing,
gow 20 Then ſhall ſtand up in his eſtate - a raiſer of
ned axes « in the glory of the kingdom ; but within few uays he ſhall be deſtroyed x, neither in -þ anger, nor he gd n battle y, : 4 This was Seluchus Philopator, a very covetous Griper, who peeled the " Nis Subje&ts ; who being told by his Friends, this would alienate his - w4s riends from him, anſwer*d, Money was his beft Friend, and therefore pared nor. to rob the Temple, for which caule he ſent #eliodorus to hall {st rifle that Treaſury. 2 Mac. 3.7. therefore ſaid to raiſe Taxes in the 1all cel lory of the Kingdom. x For he lived not out the third part of his 0 Father's Reign. y Not by open force, but by Poiſon or ſecret Wiles, 1, and Treach-:ry of Heliodorus z as ſome write of him. The Seed of E- - V11 Doers are never renowned in Lite or Death. 7 21 And in his eſtate ſhall ſtand up a vile perſon z, to red of nom they (aſl not give the honour of the Kingdom 4 . but he ſtall come in peaceably, and obtain the Kingdom 4 up + by flatteries. s of ul I Antiochus called Epiphanes 7, e. illuftrious; thus he was called by 100, bil IS Flatterers and Admirers:; but the People of God acconnted him Contrary, 7, e. infamous, bafe, tre:cherons, barbarous, ſuch were his d for Manners; and accordingly the Angel calls him here « vile Perſou, the an w ype of Antichriſ?, and may more properly be called Fpimanes, a mad he re Perſecutor. 2 i.e, Neither Peers nor People : nor was he the Heir,
4 h , : them] ut his Nephew, or Brother Philopator's Son 3 but he cheated him of
the Kingdom, and crept in by Flatlertes, 7. e. he wasa great Flatterer of Une Romans, as well as of his People, till he gat up and ſhut out Deme- 7145 the Son of Seleuchus, So vile a Flatterer was he, that he would
Ne in the ſame Bath with mean Pc ople, to make them believe he