Page 10 - 08 Vision of the Ram, He-Goat and Little Horn

DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Voice of Prophecy~

Chapter 8 – Vision of the Ram, He-Goat & Little Horn
“about two hundred years before the time of

Daniel, were called AEgeadae, the goats’

people;” the origin of which name he explains,

according to heathen authors, as follows:

“Caranus, their first king, going with a great

multitude of Greeks to seek new habitations in

Macedonia, was advised by an oracle to take

the goats for his guides to empire; and

afterward, seeing a herd of goats flying from a

violent storm, he followed them to Edessa,

and there fixed the seat of his empire, and

made the goats his ensigns, or standards, and

called the city AEgae, or the goats’ town, and

the people, AEgeadae, or the goats’ people.”

“The city of AEgeae, or AEgae, was the usual

burying-place of the Macedonian kings. It is

also very remarkable that Alexander’s son by

Roxana was named Alexander AEgus, or the

son of the goat; and some of Alexander’s