Page 6 - 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
thou sawest, having two horns, are the kings

of Media and Persia.” We have only, therefore,

to consider how well the symbol answers to

the power in question. The two horns

represented the two nationalities of which the

empire consisted. The higher came up last.

This represented the Persian element, which,

from being at first simply an ally of the Medes,

came to be the leading division of the empire.

The different directions in which the ram was

seen pushing, denote the directions in which

the Medes and Persians carried their

conquests. No earthly powers could stand

before them while they were marching up to

the exalted position to which the providence

of God had summoned them. And so

successfully were their conquests prosecuted

that in the days of Ahasuerus (Esther 1:1), the

Medo-Persian kingdom extended from India