Daniel 7:5-7
1599 Geneva Bible
5 And behold, another beast which was the second, was like a [a]bear, and stood upon the [b]one side: and he had three ribs in his [c]mouth between his teeth, [d]and they said thus unto him, Arise, and devour much flesh.
6 After this, I beheld, and lo, there was another like a [e]leopard, which had upon his back [f]four wings of a fowl: the beast had also four heads, and [g]dominion was given him.
7 After this, I saw in the visions by night, and behold, the [h]fourth beast was fearful and terrible and very strong. It had great [i]iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped [j]the residue under his feet: and it was unlike to the beasts that were before it: for it had [k]ten horns.
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- Daniel 7:5 Meaning, the Persians which were barbarous and cruel.
- Daniel 7:5 They were small in the beginning and were shut up in the mountains and had no bruit.
- Daniel 7:5 That is, destroyed many kingdoms, and was insatiable.
- Daniel 7:5 To wit, the Angels by God’s commandment, who by this means punished the ingratitude of the world.
- Daniel 7:6 Meaning, Alexander the king of Macedonia.
- Daniel 7:6 That is, his four chief captains, which had the empire among them after his death. Seleucus had Asia the great, Antigonus the less, Cassander and after him Antipater was king of Macedonia, and Ptolemy had Egypt.
- Daniel 7:6 It was not of himself nor of his own power that he got all these countries: for his army contained but thirty thousand men, and he overcame in one battle Darius, which had ten hundred thousand, when he was so heavy with sleep, that his eyes were scarce open, as the stories report: therefore this power was given him of God.
- Daniel 7:7 That is, the Roman Empire which was a monster, and could not be compared to any beasts, because the nature of none was able to express it.
- Daniel 7:7 Signifying, the tyranny and greediness of the Romans.
- Daniel 7:7 That which the Romans could not quietly enjoy in other countries, they would give it to other Kings and rulers, that at all times when they would, they might take it again: which liberality is here called the stamping of the rest under the feet.
- Daniel 7:7 That is, sundry and divers provinces which were governed by the deputies and proconsuls, whereof everyone might be compared to a King.
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