trampled under foot 2300 days; and in Daniel’s Prophecies days are put for years:  but the profanation of the Temple in the reign of Antiochus did not last so many natural days.  These were to last till the time of the end, till the last end of the indignation against the Jews; and this indignation is not yet at an end.  They were to last till the Sanctuary which had been cast down should be cleansed, and the Sanctuary is not yet cleansed.

This Prophecy of the Ram and He-Goat is repeated in the last Prophecy of Daniel.  There the Angel tells Daniel, that [9] he stood up to strengthen Darius_ the Mede, and that there should stand up yet three kings in Persia_, [Cyrus, Cambyses, and Darius Hystaspis] and the fourth [Xerxes] should be far richer than they all; and by his wealth thro’ his riches he should stir up all against the realm of Grecia__.  This relates to the Ram, whose two horns were the kingdoms of Media and Persia.  Then he goes on to describe the horns of the Goat by the [10] standing up of a mighty king, which should rule with great dominion, and do according to his will; and by the breaking of his kingdom into four smaller kingdoms, and not descending to his own posterity.  Then he describes the actions of two of those kingdoms which bordered on Judea, viz. Egypt and Syria, calling them the Kings of the South and North, that is, in respect of Judea; and he carries on the description till the latter end of the kingdoms of the four, and till the reign of Antiochus Epiphanes, when transgressors were come to the full.  In the eighth year of Antiochus, the year in which he profaned the Temple and set up the heathen Gods in all Judea, and the Romans conquered the kingdom of Macedon; the prophetic Angel leaves off describing the affairs of the kings of the South and North, and begins to describe those of the Greeks under the dominion of the Romans, in these words:  [11] And after him Arms [the Romans] shall stand up, and they shall pollute the sanctuary of strength.  As [Hebrew:  MMLK] signifies after the king, Dan. xi. 8; so here [Hebrew:  MMNW] may signify after him:  and so [Hebrew:  MN-H’CHT] may signify after one of them, Dan. viii. 9.  Arms are every where in these Prophecies of Daniel put for the military power of a kingdom, and they stand up when they conquer and grow powerful.  The Romans conquered Illyricum, Epirus and Macedonia, in the year of Nabonassar 580; and thirty five years after, by the last will and testament of Attalus the last King of Pergamus, they inherited that rich and flourishing kingdom, that is, all Asia on this side mount Taurus:  and sixty nine years after, they conquered the kingdom