NOTICES IN DANIEL.
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CHAPTER XXIV. FUBTHER NOTICES OF EGYPT
IN DANIEL.
" After
this shall he turn his face unto the isles, aiid shall take a prince for his oVu behalf shall cause the reproach offered by him to cease; without his own reproach he shall cause it to turn upon him. Then he shall turn his face toward the fort of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found. Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom but within few diiys he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in
many but :
;
battle."
(DANIEL,
ch. xi., verses JS-20.)
IN the prophetical Books of the Old Testament, and in some of the historical ones (Gen. x. 5 Esth. x. 1),
even
;
" the expression translated " the isles or " the islands," shores and of European Greece the isles designates primarily " which invited the colonist and the the " maritime tracts conqueror to brave the terrors of the deep, and journey westward from Asia in search of " fresh woods and pastures new " Antiochus the Great, shortly after concluding his peace with Philopator, undertook an aggressive movement in this direction.* Crossing the Hellespont in B.C. 197, he took possession of the Chersonese with its city of Lysimachia. Five years later, having made alliance with the (Etolians, he moved into central Greece, landing at Demetrias, and soon afterwards making himself master of Chalcis, thereby throwing out a challenge to the Romans, which they were not slow to accept. Rome could not allow the establishment of an Asiatic power in Europe and her " prince " for the time being, the consul M. Acilius Glabrio, soon " " " caused the " the reproach which Antiochus had offered " to himAntiochus it back Romans, cease," turning upon self f by the decisive victory of Thermopylae. t Antiochus ;
See Liv. xxxv. 23, 48: Polyb. xviii. 32. This seems to be the true meaning of the last clause of verse (See "Speaker's Commentary," vol. vi., p. 379.) t
i
Liv. xxxvi. 18, 19.
18.