Page 13 - 09 THE EIGHTH OF DANIEL

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.

without light, and he maketh them to stagger

like a drunken man.” “When he was strong, the

great horn was broken, and for it came up four

notable ones toward the four winds of

heaven.” Alexander left no heir capable of

ruling the kingdom, and in less than twenty

years of strife, his four leading generals

succeeded in dividing the empire among

themselves.

Ptolemy had Egypt to the south; Seleucus took

Syria and the eastern division; Lysimachus

had Asia Minor and territory to the north;

while Cassander had Greece or the western

division. These four had not the power of

Alexander. The history of these four divisions

is given in the eleventh chapter of Daniel.