200 powerful; but in a short time the great horn was broken, and four others came up in its place. Out of one of these sprang a little horn, which increas;d till it was very great, when it cast down the stars of heaven, and destroyed the temple of God, and took away the daily sacrifice from the altar.” Daniel saw this wision, but did not understand it. While, in great perplexity, he sought to discover its meaning, he saw before him “the appearance as of a ngan, and heard a man’s voice from between the banks of the river Ulai, calling to the angel Gabriel, and (ommanding him to explain the vision.” As Gabriel came near, Daniel was much alarmed, and fell on his face; and when the angel spoke to him, he was so overcome by the wonderful things he had seen, and by the presence of angelić beings, that he sell as into a deep sleep. But the angel touched him, and raised him up, and told him the meaning of the vision. The ram was the Persian empire, which would shortly destroy the Babylonian. Its two horns were the two kingdoms of Media and Persia, that were, as we know, united
