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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~
Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
refer the overflowing and passing over to
the king of the north, these words expressing
the result of that movement which is just
before likened to the fury of the whirlwind.
VERSE 41. He shall enter also into the glorious
land, and many countries shall be overthrown:
but these shall escape out of his hand, even
Edom, and Moab, and the chief of the children
of Ammon.
The facts just stated relative to the campaign
of the French against Turkey, and the repulse
of the former at St. Jean d’Acre, were drawn
chiefly from the Encyclopedia Americana.
From the same source we gather further
particulars respecting the retreat of the
French into Egypt, and the additional reverses
which compelled them to evacuate that
country.