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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
Alexander became complete master of the

whole country. Bishop Newton quotes verse

6: “And he [the goat] came to the ram which I

had seen standing before the river, and ran

unto him in the fury of his power;” and adds:

“One can hardly read these words, without

having some image of Darius’s army standing

and guarding the River Granicus, and of

Alexander on the other side, with his forces

plunging in, swimming across the stream, and

rushing on the enemy with all the fire and fury

that can be imagined.” — Id., p. 239.

Ptolemy begins the reign of Alexander B. C.

332; but it was not till the battle of Arbela, the

year following, that he became, according to

Prideaux (Vol. I, p. 378), “absolute lord of that

empire to the utmost extent in which it was

ever possessed by the Persian kings.” On the