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THE STORY OF DANIEL THE PROPHET

Stephen N. Haskell

“But go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest and stand in thy
lot at the end of the days.” Daniel 12:13.

CHAPTER XV THE FOURTH KINGDOM

(Chapter 11:14-22)

The fourteenth verse of the eleventh chapter

of Daniel, as we have seen, introduces a new

power. Gabriel, in narrating the events

connected with the history of Greece, brought

that empire down to the time when the

southern division was in the hands of a child,

Ptolemy Epiphanes, and when two men, Philip

of Macedon and Antiochus of Syria, although

jealous of each other, were willing to unite

their strength in order to subdue Egypt. From

a political point of view a general weakness

prevailed in the once mighty empire of

Alexander. Without noticing the details, the

angel of prophecy speaks of the first

appearance of the fourth kingdom as it comes