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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
according to the prophecy of Isaiah (21: 2),

Elam went up with the Medes to besiege

Babylon. Under the Medes and Persians it

regained its liberties, of which it had been

deprived by the Babylonians, according to the

prophecy of Jeremiah 49:39.

VERSE 3. Then I lifted up mine eyes, and saw,

and, behold, there stood before the river a ram

which had two horns; and the two horns were

high; but one was higher than the other, and

the higher came up last. 4. I saw the ram

pushing westward, and northward, and

southward; so that no beasts might stand

before him, neither was there any that could

deliver out of his hand; but he did according to

his will, and became great.

In verse 20 an interpretation of this symbol is

given us in plain language: “The ram which