eak words against the High One, and shall crush the
saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times
and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and
times, and half a time.

A time, and times, and half a time... That is, three years and a half;
which is supposed to be the length of the duration of the persecution of
Antichrist.

7:26. And a judgment shall sit, that his power may be taken away, and be
broken in pieces, and perish even to the end.

7:27. And that the kingdom, and power, and the greatness of the kingdom,
under the whole heaven, may be given to the people of the saints of the
most High: whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all kings shall
serve him, and shall obey him.

7:28. Hitherto is the end of the word. I, Daniel, was much troubled with
my thoughts, and my countenance was changed in me: but I kept the word
in my heart.

Daniel Chapter 8

Daniel's vision of the ram and the he goat interpreted by the angel
Gabriel.

8:1. In the third year of the reign of king Baltasar, a vision appeared
to me. I, Daniel, after what I had seen in the beginning,

8:2. Saw in my vision when I was in the castle of Susa, which is in the
province of Elam: and I saw in the vision that I was over the gate of
Ulai.

8:3. And I lifted up my eyes, and saw: and behold a ram stood before the
water, having two high horns, and one higher than the other, and growing
up. Afterward

A ram... The empire of the Medes and Persians.

8:4. I saw the ram pushing with his horns against the west, and against
the north, and against the south: and no beasts could withstand him, nor
be delivered out of his hand: and he did according to his own will, and
became great.

8:5. And I understood: and behold a he goat came from the west on the
face of the whole earth, and he touched not the ground, and the he goat
had a notable horn between his eyes.

A he goat... The empire of the Greeks, or Macedonians. Ibid. He touched
not the ground... He conquered all before him, with so much rapidity,
that he seemed rather to fly, than to walk upon the earth.-Ibid. A
notable horn... Alexander the Great.

8:6. And he went up to the ram that had the horns, which I had seen
standing before the gate, and he ran towards him in the force of his
strength.

8:7. And when he was come near the ram, he was enraged against him, and
struck the ram: and broke his two horns, and the ram cound not withstand