lon, Daniel saw a dream:
and the vision of his head was upon his bed: and writing the dream, he
comprehended it in a few words: and relating the sum of it in short, he
said:

7:2. I saw in my vision by night, and behold the four winds of the
heavens strove upon the great sea.

7:3. And four great beasts, different one from another, came up out of
the sea.

Four great beasts... Viz., the Chaldean, Persian, Grecian, and Roman
empires. But some rather choose to understand the fourth beast of the
successors of Alexander the Great, more especially of them that reigned
in Asia and Syria.

7:4. The first was like a lioness, and had the wings of an eagle: I
beheld till her wings were plucked off, and she was lifted up from the
earth, and stood upon her feet as a man, and the heart of a man was
given to her.

7:5. And behold another beast, like a bear, stood up on one side: and
there were three rows in the mouth thereof, and in the teeth thereof,
and thus they said to it: Arise, devour much flesh.

7:6. After this I beheld, and lo, another like a leopard, and it had
upon it four wings, as of a fowl, and the beast had four heads, and
power was given to it.

7:7. After this I beheld in the vision of the night, and lo, a fourth
beast, terrible and wonderful, and exceeding strong, it had great iron
teeth, eating and breaking in pieces, and treading down the rest with
his feet: and it was unlike to the other beasts which I had seen before
it, and had ten horns.

Ten horns... That is, ten kingdoms, (as Apoc. 17.12,) among which the
empire of the fourth beast shall be parcelled. Or ten kings of the
number of the successors of Alexander; as figures of such as shall be
about the time of Antichrist.

7:8. I considered the horns, and behold another little horn sprung out
of the midst of them: and three of the first horns were plucked up at
the presence thereof: and behold eyes like the eyes of a man were in
this horn, and a mouth speaking great things.

Another little horn... This is commonly understood of Antichrist. It may
also be applied to that great persecutor Antiochus Epiphanes, as a
figure of Antichrist.

7:9. I beheld till thrones were placed, and the ancient of days sat: his
garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like clean wool: his
throne like flames of fire: the wheels of it like a burning fire.

7:10. A swift stream of fire issued forth from before him: thousands of
thousands ministered to him, a