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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 15. So the king of the north shall
come, and cast up a mount, and take the most
fenced cities: and the arms of the south shall
not withstand, neither his chosen people,
neither shall there be any strength to
withstand.
The tuition of the young king of Egypt was
entrusted by the Roman Senate to M. Emilius
Lepidus, who appointed Aristomenes, an old
and experienced minister of that court, his
guardian. His first act was to provide against
the threatened invasion of the two
confederated kings, Philip and Antiochus.
To this end he dispatched Scopas, a famous
general of AEtolia, then in the service of the
Egyptians, into his native country to raise
reinforcements for the army. Having equipped
an army, he marched into Palestine and Coele-
