him: and when he had cast him down on the ground, he stamped upon him,
and none could deliver the ram out of his hand.

8:8. And the he goat became exceeding great: and when he was grown, the
great horn was broken, and there came up four horns under it towards the
four winds of heaven.

Four horns... Seleucus, Antigonus, Philip, and Ptolemeus, the successors
of Alexander, who divided his empire among them.

8:9. And out of one of them came forth a little horn: and it became
great against the south, and against the east, and against the strength.

A little horn... Antiochus Epiphanes, a descendant of Seleucus. He grew
against the south, and the east, by his victories over the kings of
Egypt and Armenia: and against the strength, that is, against Jerusalem
and the people of God.

8:10. And it was magnified even unto the strength of heaven: and it
threw down of the strength, and of the stars, and trod upon them.

Unto the strength of heaven... or, against the strength of heaven. So
are here called the army of the Jews, the people of God.

8:11. And it was magnified even to the prince of the strength: and it
took away from him the continual sacrifice, and cast down the place of
his sanctuary.

8:12. And strength was given him against the continual sacrifice,
because of sins: and truth shall be cast down on the ground, and he
shall do and shall prosper.

8:13. And I heard one of the saints speaking, and one saint said to
another I know not to whom, that was speaking: How long shall be the
vision, concerning the continual sacrifice, and the sin of the
desolation that is made: and the sanctuary, and the strength be trodden
under foot?

8:14. And he said to him: Unto evening and morning two thousand three
hundred days: and the sanctuary shall be cleansed.

Unto evening and morning two thousand three hundred days... That is, six
years and almost four months: which was the whole time from the
beginning of the persecution of Antiochus till his death.

8:15. And it came to pass when I, Daniel, saw the vision, and sought the
meaning, that behold there stood before me as it were the appearance of
a man.

8:16. And I heard the voice of a man between Ulai: and he called, and
said: Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision.

8:17. And he came, and stood near where I stood: and when he was come, I
fell on my face, trembling, and he said to me: Understand, O son of man,
for in the time of the end the vision shall be