 | Jonathan Edwards - Congregational churches - 1844 - 688 pages
...interpret this he-goat to signify the king of Greeia, ver. 21. The rough goat is the king of Greeia; and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king, ie, Alexander himself. After Alexander had conquered the world, he soon died ; and his dominion did... | |
 | Irah Chase - Bible - 1844 - 96 pages
...he shall subdue three kings ; and he shall speak great words against the Most High." And Dan. 8: 21, "The great horn, that is between his eyes, is the first king." In view of passages like these, need we remark, that if, in the style of Daniel, the great horn indicates... | |
 | Edward Bishop Elliott - Bible - 1845 - 110 pages
...For example ; " The ram which thou eawest," said Gabriel to Daniel, " having two horns, are the kinyx of Media and Persia; and the rough goat is the king of Grecia." 2 But, on Mr. Arnold's hermeneutic principle, the kings of Media and Persia, and the king of Grecia,... | |
 | William Sloane Evans - Heraldry - 1854 - 248 pages
...every one after their families, according to the house of their Fathers."— [Numbers ii., 34.] 4. " The Ram which thou sawest having two horns, are the...horn that is between his eyes is the first King." — [Daniel viii., 20, 21.] The Latin and Greek Poets and Historians afford numerous instances of the... | |
 | 1847 - 586 pages
...and he-goat. It is almost entirely occupied with kings, as kings, and with kingdoms, as kingdoms, " The ram which thou sawest, having two horns, are the...horn that is between his eyes is the first king." Or take the eleventh chapter. What can be more personal either as to kings or kingdoms than the prediction... | |
 | Baptists - 1842 - 676 pages
...he shall subdue three kings ; and he shall speak great words against the Most High." And Dan. 8: 21, "The great horn that is between his eyes, is the first king." In view of passages like these, need we remark, that if, in the style of Daniel, the great horn indicates... | |
 | Elizabeth Rice Handford - Fiction - 1971 - 116 pages
...but he did according to his will, and became great." Then the angel Gabriel said plainly to Daniel, "The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia." u Babylon was doomed ! Belshazzar could have known all this. Indeed, two hundred years before, the... | |
 | J. Sidlow Baxter, James Sidlow Baxter - Religion - 1986 - 1848 pages
...Equally clearly are we told the identity of the "he-goat" which destroys Media- Persia (verses 5-7). "The rough goat is the king of Grecia ; and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king" (verse 21). In the vision, however, "the great horn" (Alexander the Great) was broken, and for it came... | |
 | J. H. Waggoner - Religion - 1995 - 300 pages
...little horn, whirlt waxed exceeding great." Verses S, 9. Ill the interpretation it is said:— "Tho ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings...goat is the king of Grecia ; and the great horn that U between his eyes is the first kinir. Now that beine broken, whereas four stood nn for it. f»nr kingdoms... | |
 | Jeff Wehr - Bible - 1997 - 132 pages
...symbolically as a goat with a notable horn. "The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the longs of Media and Persia. And the rough goat is the king...great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. . . . And he [the goat] came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river,... | |
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Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power. 
