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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 11 – A Literal Prophecy
VERSE 13. For the king of the north shall

return, and shall set forth a multitude greater

than the former, and shall certainly come after

certain years with a great army and with much

riches.

The events predicted in this verse were to

occur “after certain years.” The peace

concluded between Ptolemy Philopater and

Antiochus, lasted fourteen years. Meanwhile

Ptolemy died from intemperance and

debauchery, and was succeeded by his son,

Ptolemy Epiphanes, a child then four or five

years old. Antiochus, during the same time,

having suppressed rebellion in his kingdom,

and reduced and settled the eastern parts in

their obedience, was at leisure for any

enterprise, when young Epiphanes came to

the throne of Egypt; and thinking this too good