Original Source: Sir Isaac Newton - Observations on Daniel, Chapter 8
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Chapter 8: Of the Prophecy of the Ram and the He-Goat
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- In the third year of the reign of Belshazzar, Daniel saw a vision while he was at Shushan in the province of Elam, standing by the river Ulai.
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- He saw a ram with two horns, both high, but one higher than the other, and the higher came up last. The ram pushed westward, northward, and southward, and no beast could stand before him.
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- Sir Isaac Newton understood the ram to signify the Medo-Persian empire, the two horns representing the kingdoms of Media and Persia, with Persia rising last and becoming the greater.
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- While Daniel considered the ram, a he-goat came from the west on the face of the whole earth, touching not the ground. The goat had a notable horn between his eyes.
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- The goat ran upon the ram in the fury of his power, smote him, broke his two horns, cast him to the ground, and stamped upon him. None could deliver the ram out of his hand.
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- Sir Isaac Newton identified the goat as the kingdom of Greece, and the notable horn as Alexander the Great, whose swift conquests overcame the Persian empire.
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- The great horn was broken, and four notable horns came up in its place toward the four winds of heaven. Sir Isaac Newton understood these to be the four principal kingdoms into which Alexander's empire was divided.
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- Out of one of these four came a little horn, which waxed exceeding great toward the south, toward the east, and toward the pleasant land.
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- This horn magnified itself even to the host of heaven, cast down some of the host and stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. It magnified itself against the Prince of the host.
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- Sir Isaac Newton interpreted this little horn as a later king arising out of one of the divisions of the Grecian empire, notable for his opposition to the sanctuary and the daily sacrifice.
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- The vision declared that the sanctuary would be cast down, the daily sacrifice taken away, and truth cast to the ground, yet the horn would prosper for a time.
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- Daniel heard one saint ask another how long the vision concerning the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation should last. The answer was unto two thousand and three hundred days, then the sanctuary would be cleansed.
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- Newton concluded that the prophecy of the ram and the he-goat reveals the succession of the Persian and Grecian empires, the rise of a notable persecuting power, and the appointed time of the sanctuary's restoration.
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- Original Source: Sir Isaac Newton - Observations on Daniel, Chapter 1
- Original Source: Sir Isaac Newton - Observations on Daniel, Chapter 2
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