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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
than the king of the north; for Seleucus

Callinicus died in exile, of a fall from his horse;

and Ptolemy Euergetes survived him for four

or five years.

VERSE 10. But his sons shall be stirred up, and

shall assemble a multitude of great forces: and

one shall certainly come, and overflow, and

pass through: then shall he return, and be

stirred up, even to his fortress.

The first part of this verse speaks of sons, in

the plural; the last part, of one, in the singular.

The sons of Seleucus Callinicus were Seleucus

Ceraunus and Antiochus Magnus. These both

entered with zeal upon the work of

vindicating and avenging the cause of their

father and their country. The elder of these,

Seleucus, first took the throne. He assembled

a great multitude to recover his father’s